EMOTIONAL BIO RHYTHM
Your Sun Signs say it All
“Scientists say that somewhere in the universe, every event under the sun repeats itself an infinite number of times in every possible variation.”
― Romina Russell, Zodiac
Emotional Bio Rhythm Hypothesis
Emotional Bio Rhythm or EBR was first proposed and described by Virender Kapoor in his book “ Heart Over Matter- Your mantra for Success” in the year 2011.It establishes a direct link between Emotional Intelligence of an individual and his or her sun sign. The correlation is remarkable and largely accurate. EBR gives a clear picture of an individual’s Emotional Competence which can help him do a SWOT analysis and take corrective actions to optimize his Emotional Intelligence.
Human nature and Emotional Intelligence.
Going through the pages of any book which has a strong backdrop of Emotional Intelligence, a reader would realize as to how very complex we human beings are. Our behavior, basic characteristics and our abilities to deal with the world and our environment differs from person to person. These abilities and temperament for each of us is very complex. That is why we also call this complex human behavior as an individual’s nature. This implies that these non cognitive aspects of our character are to a large extent given to us by nature. That is why there are some who are very cool headed and some of us fly the handle and lose temper at the drop of a hat. These human instincts and basic qualities like will-power, strength of character, etc., make a deep impact on each of us and to a large extent dictate as to how we interpret the world. Each one of us, therefore, has a unique “Emotional Bio Rhythm “– the way our emotions and characteristics shape our life — which is the key to improving our individual performance.
Emotional Intelligence is mix of an individual’s nature, characteristics, traits and attitude. On EI plane we all possess certain strengths as well as weaknesses; most of us have more strengths than weaknesses. To improve upon these weaknesses are like “Emotional Optimization”.
“That black, maddening firmament; that vast cosmic ocean, endlessly deep in every direction, both Heaven and Pandemonium at once; mystical Zodiac, speckled flesh of Tiamat; all that is chaos, infinite and eternal. And yet, it’s somehow the bringing to order of this chaos which perhaps has always disturbed me most. The constellations, in their way, almost bring into sharper focus the immensity and insanity of it all — monsters and giants brought to life in all their gigantic monstrosity; Orion and Hercules striding across the sky, limbs reaching for lightyears, only to be dwarfed by the likes of Draco, Pegasus, or Ursa Major. Then bigger still — Cetus, Eridanus, Ophiuchus, and Hydra, spanning nearly the whole of a hemisphere, sunk below the equator in that weird underworld of obscure southern formations. You try to take them in — the neck cranes, the eyes roll, and the mind boggles until this debilitating sense of inverted vertigo overcomes you…”
― Mark X., Citations: A Brief Anthology
Self Awareness and Sun signs
To optimize, one must first be able to understand and realize what one possesses — what nature has bestowed upon us. People are born under twelve zodiac signs. These sun signs generally connected to horoscope are as per English calendar. People born under a particular sun sign possess certain peculiar traits. These can be analyzed and mapped on to the abilities that fall under the domain of Emotional Intelligence. In fact the most important component of EI is self awareness and this is what Bio Rhythm does.
One has to expand the scope of EI by looking into and integrating EI with aspects like our likes and dislikes, relation between heart and head, our basic emotional structure, passion, determination, motivation, drive, commitment, integrity, principles, mindset and even values.
In a way it covers the entire domain of human competence which can be labeled as “One’s character and Personality”. Within our character and personality map, all these qualities are loosely coupled and loosely defined. It is not possible to quantify these traits and represent them as numbers. We call it Emotional Quotient but it would be very difficult to assign a number to one’s EQ — at best it would be some sort of an approximation of a very subjective analysis.
Sun signs are a narrative and not a grading system
Sun signs define the character and personalities for people born under different sun signs. Here also the characteristics are loosely defined and loosely structured. It is more of a narrative rather than a grading system. I feel one has to leave it at that. If these can give us a gross feel about our basic character, we can take that as a starting point in moving towards optimizing our abilities.
Surprisingly these characteristics pretty well match up with things like our sense of humor, delayed gratification, perseverance, optimism, patience, trusting others, impulsive nature, caring for others and so forth.
Sun signs divide the earth’s 6.5 billion population into 12 distinct Zodiac signs. These are considered the twelve basic personality types. People in these groups get their characteristics or personality traits from whatever sign that the sun was passing through at the time of their birth. Since these sun signs go across a time zone there is an imaginary boundary line between two signs. This imaginary line is called a “Cusp”. For simple understanding, people born close to these boundaries tend to have characteristics of both the signs.
The accuracy of sun signs
As you read your Bio Rhythm as per your sun sign, you will realize that many of the characteristics match with your character almost 100 per cent. Some of these match to some extent and you would say, “Hm…this could be possible” and some don’t match at all and you say, “Oh no! This is not me”. But if you take the sum total you will find a number of traits that match yours. Even if it is 80 per cent profile match, it becomes a useful tool. First, you can be conscious about your strengths and weaknesses and second, you can make an effort to bring about a change in yourself. Third you can understand your personality and avoid these situations, jobs and people which do not go along with your personality.
For example, if you are one who cannot work under pressure and tension as per your Emotional Bio Rhythm then you must avoid taking jobs that have an environment or expectation which will have you under pressure.
Your “Self Profiling” and Emotional Bio Rhythm put together can give you a fair idea as to how to deal with life, which direction to move into and what type of area of work to choose that goes along well with you.
Therefore you work on two planes together, emotional optimization and optimizing your life according to your temperament.
“Just because you can’t prove it doesn’t mean it isn’t true”
― Robert Graysmith, Zodiac
References
1. Gardner Howard (1983) “Frames of mind: the theory of multiple Intelligence” — New York Basic books.
2. Daniel Goleman : “ Emotional Intelligence : Why it can matter more than IQ (1996).
3. http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/dec2009/id2009121_864965.htm
5. Winning Instinct- by virender kapoor- Bloomsbury
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