Emotional Maturity

Lily

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Emotional Maturity implies controlling your emotions rather than letting your emotions get the better of you. Your emotional maturity depicts your capacity to manage and to check your emotions, to evaluate others’ emotional state and to persuade their judgment and actions. A person’s emotional maturity is very much influenced by his/ her relationship history. Emotional intelligence makes an important part of life, together with intellectual intelligence and relationship intelligence. Such intelligence can help one to assess emotional maturity and emotional freedom. How well do you tackle any relationship, is a major discernible factor to check your level of emotional maturity.

Characteristics / Traits of Emotionally Mature People

  • Knowing as to what one wants and how to make it happen.
  • Thinking sooner than acting and having control over one’s behavior.
  • Having the sense of self-reliance and the capability to take accountability for one’s life and actions.
  • Having patience
  • Bonding with others in a supportive and constructive manner.
  • Actually caring about others and representing their concern.
  • Acting honestly and living by one's principles.
  • Keeping self-control and balance in all things.
  • Having the capacity to tackle difficult and demanding situations.
Are You Emotionally Mature?
At times, Immaturity can also be related to child abuse and emotional incest. Go through the given questions and find out if you’re emotionally mature.

  • Do you deal with sudden change?
  • Do you pay attention to other people's ideas?
  • Do you make out your feelings as they occur?
  • Do you act wisely and mature enough under stress?
  • Do you express your feelings properly?
  • Do you take accountability for your actions and behavior?
  • Do you control intense emotions and impulses?
If your answer is ‘No’ to any of these questions, it points out part of your life when you’re not exactly emotionally mature. Stress, in extreme cases, also makes one to act immaturely. To handle childhood traumas, counseling by a psychiatrist could help.

How to Develop Emotional Maturity

Anyone can develop emotional maturity in oneself by keeping a track of certain points, given as follows.

  • Work hard to achieve your goals. Life is not a fairy tale where magic wands do wonders.
  • Start accepting your tensions and worries. Don’t avoid it just to get momentary relief. Work over your stress and anxiety, and handle them.
  • Start recognizing and expressing your anger. Otherwise, you’ll become afraid of yourself after a certain point of time.
  • Learn to bear pain and hurt because life is full of uncertainties. You never know what lies in store for you.
  • Face the consequences of the things you’ve done. Understand your responsibility and learn from your mistakes.
  • Learn to accept your failures and engage yourself in better actions. Keep a positive approach and be helpful to others.
  • Make your own viewpoint from your feelings. Comprehend that the world is really big and one can actually not identify with the things, people etc.
 
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