Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand one’s and others’ emotions. It also involves expressing empathy when it comes to others and processing that begins with understanding how others are feeling by their body language.  Having a high sense of emotional intelligence comes with self-regulation. The relationship between the two begins with self-regulation. One must know and understand their feelings mentally by processing them and acting accordingly. Developing strong self-regulation is acting reasonably and responsibly no matter the emotion. If someone is experiencing a rage of anger, they don’t act out irrationally. This is having a good sense of self-regulation of emotions. It is the ability to deal with your emotions with reason and regulate between them. I believe having a strong sense of self-regulation will help you develop a stronger emotional intelligence because you are able to process your emotions, understand what they are telling you, breathe through them, and move forward in a mature manner. One time when I was working, a co-worker and I got into a disagreement. We were both very angry with each other and instead of getting physical with her like I wanted to, I rationally decided against it because I would have ended up losing my job. Instead, I walked away, being the bigger person, and went and cooled off. I sometimes have to remove myself from a situation in order to not act based on my raised emotions. Breathing is a great technique to help with anger. One thing I need to work on when it comes to emotional intelligence, is dealing with sadness. Sometimes in public it’s hard for me to not cry when I feel like I need to. I don’t have a technique when I’m upset that way which can be hard to avoid.