Babyla's World

'Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year'  Ralph Waldo Emerson  Twenty twenty-three is going to be different as I decided not to follow the 'new year, new me' motto. Usually, I used to be excited to kickstart new year with at least one new year resolution. But this year I couldn't bring myself to formulate any new year resolution. I think new year resolutions are great as it give people the motivation to do something good for themselves. But in most cases, people are most likely to forget their new year resolutions within the first week of the year. Three and a half decades have passed yet I feel the need, every single time, to work on myself. Sadly, new year resolutions won't be able to do justice to the growth that I intend to see in me. Every morning I want to be receptive and acceptive to the greater energy. The first thing that I used to do was to drink coffee and smoke a stick or two. But ever since I quit smoking two years ago an...

As a part of innovative teaching pedagogy sharing of emotions was implemented in two sections of PGDE’s Educational Psychology modules during the spring semester of the academic year, 2021. For an entire semester, my students were encouraged to share their emotions either at the beginning or end of the class. The aim of sharing emotions was to help the students to be in touch with their emotions and to develop emotional intelligence. The term “emotion” comes from the Latin “emovere” which means “to put in motion”. According to the American Psychological Association (APA), emotion is defined as “a complex reaction pattern, involving experiential, behavioral and physiological elements.” An emotion can also be defined as an “organism’s reaction to an external event, which has physiological, cognitive and behavioral aspects'' (Jacques Lecomte’s Les 30 notions de la psychologie ). Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and regulate one’s emotions and understand the emotio...