What is emotional maturity? Is emotional maturity an indication of maturity in our behavior and emotions? Or is it a lack of maturity? How important is it to develop emotional maturity in our lives? What is the benefit of developing emotional maturity?
Behavior and emotions
What is emotional maturity? Emotional maturity refers to our ability to manage our own behavior and emotions. Emotional maturity is the ability to:
- Understand and correctly interpret emotions,
- To express emotions, but also to
- “Letting Go” of Emotions (knowing when to move on with your life, even if you have just gone through a tough emotional time.)
Immature behavior
If someone can handle his or her emotions well, then such a person is emotionally mature. If someone cannot handle his or her emotions well, such a person is emotionally immature.
What can we do with it?
What can we do with emotional maturity in our lives? What is the benefit of emotional maturity? An emotionally mature person will:
- be happier,
- Be more successful and
- Feels a lot of satisfaction in his life.
Reaches
What does emotional maturity have to do with what we can achieve in our lives? Emotional maturity has everything to do with the extent to which we process (life) experiences and emotions and how we learn. We are emotionally mature when we are able to:
- To understand how we function as humans,
- To understand how we as humans should behave,
- To understand and master the general skill of life.
Personality
Our personality also influences the formation and development of emotional maturity in our lives. What is the basis of our personality? As the basis of our personality in our:
- Preferences,
- Attitude,
- Appearance and etc.
All right, that is an important contribution to the development of our emotional maturity.
Intelligence
Does intelligence have anything to do with emotional maturity? A high IQ or having a lot of intelligence will not always make the difference whether someone is emotionally mature or not.
Adult?
How do you know if you are truly emotionally mature? This is reflected in:
- The way you think
- The way you laugh every day,
- The way you attitude towards yourself and others,
- The way of your appearance,
- The way you deal with truths and untruths
- The way someone can enjoy music,
- The way someone acquires knowledge
- The way someone deals with discipline
- The way someone takes responsibility in life,
- The way someone judges another
- The way someone reacts in a very difficult situation,
- The way someone behaves in a difficult situation
- The way someone’s mood is in a difficult situation.
Do you respond maturely or immaturely to a difficult or difficult situation?
To develop
Emotional maturity is a process, a process in which you develop yourself. You either have intelligence or you don’t. You either have a personality or you don’t. You can always develop emotional maturity, everyone can always work on his or her emotional maturity.
How do you see it?
How do you see emotional maturity in others? How do you discover emotional maturity in others? You see emotional maturity (or lack thereof) in others in their:
- Behaviour,
- The way they react or
- To their mood.
Just look at others, but also at yourself, to see how they react to:
- Sad news,
- How they deal with frustrations,
- How they deal with feelings of guilt,
- How they deal with anger
- How they deal with helplessness,
- How they deal with jealousy
- How they deal with greed,
- How they deal with power
- How they interact with others
- How they handle responsibilities,
- How they deal with a fellow human being in need,
- How they deal with negative feelings,
You are as happy in your life as you allow yourself to be.