Emotions and feelings are our helpers. By learning to listen and live them, we can become happier, more successful and healthier. In this article, I propose to consider the following questions: How to be in healthy contact with yourself and the world? How to maintain balance in stressful situations? How to maintain physical and mental health? Every day a socially active person has to solve many problems and overcome stressful situations. It is also an irrefutable fact that the unstable situation in the world affects the emotional and physical state. At the moment, from my experience, I see the following important steps: Step 1. Development of emotional intelligence. Step 2. Managing emotional intelligence. Step 3. Relieving bodily tension. Step 4. Personal and group therapy. Step 1. Development of emotional intelligence. Why is it so important to develop emotional intelligence? What is emotional intelligence Emotional intelligence (EQ, EI) is a person’s ability to understand both their own and the emotions of others, respond adequately to them and manage their manifestation. The level of EQ determines how a person will communicate, solve complex problems and deal with difficulties. A high level of emotional intelligence helps to build a successful career, be productive, unite a team and remain motivated. In general, emotional intelligence (EI) is considered as the ability to work with emotions and show empathy. This includes the ability to recognize emotions, acknowledge negative and positive feelings, separate personal perceptions from visual facts, and manage one’s own and others’ emotions. This is a certain human ability to sense a situation very correctly and sensitively, understand the desires of others, and be resistant to stress and the influence of negative emotions. Emotional intelligence is a kind of air cushion that will keep a person afloat in any situation. It helps to maximize your resources in the event of a crisis life situation, set up a system of trusting and open relationships with people around you, and avoid the harmful effects of stress. Step 2. Managing emotional intelligence. What does this mean? Managing emotional intelligence implies developing the ability to survive stressful situations while maintaining a more or less equal emotional state. There are five basic options for interacting with emotions: Live the emotion - at the moment the emotion arises, express it on the bodily level; Suppress the emotion - at the moment the emotion arises, “stagnate” the body and “block” the manifestation. React the emotion - at the moment the emotion arises suppress it, at the same time become aware of it and live it later, through various exercises (shout, draw, sing, etc.) Transform an emotion - react to an emotion, but through exercises aimed at a conscious result, for example a creative process. Authenticate an emotion - high level interaction with emotions, when the emotion is recognized, but there is no identification with it and the need to live it. BELOW THERE ARE EXAMPLES FOR LIVING AND RESPONDING TO FEELINGS: Draw You can unload feelings and emotions by drawing on paper. Draw whatever you want, as your hand leads. Breathe. Find an area of ​​tension in the body associated with a feeling. Breathe calmly, evenly, deeply, imagining how this tension spreads through the body like waves and comes out. Bring it out through movements, physical activity. Jump, dance, move around with this feeling. Dance however you like. It is important to express/release through the body. Use therapeutic writing. Write down all feelings, preferably on paper. I feel... Speak out Speak out loud, accept feelings. For example, “this is my fear and I give it space.” Inhale and exhale. Coordinate three centers: mind, feelings, body. When some unpleasant situation occurs, say: I admit all my thoughts (you can put your hand on your head). Inhale and exhale. I acknowledge all my feelings (hand on chest). Inhale and exhale. I acknowledge all the feelings in