In our society time and time again we come across emotionally charged situations that makes us confused again and again. For example, at work, there are so many complaints that I have heard from employees complaining about getting stuck in the Double-Bind. The complain is usually that they get into a profession that they LOVE, and they are also are asked that they should really love & care for what they do, but are hit hard by Emotional predicaments of Immoral and Unethical circumstances while working. They may be asked to do extra work doing unnecessary documentation; they may be pointed out performing many extra steps as that policies of the organization may require; other issues that may pressure them concerning their gender, age, religion, national origin; etc.
It seems that people are constantly in conflict of dealing with giving and doing what they LOVE, but being held-back with numerous demands that would constantly step on their feelings and confidence. But worst is that our professionals are not being Trained as to how to Encourage, Handle, Attend and Pay attention to such issues. Instead, our employers will do the "one-up-manship" practice that consists of usually brushing the issue under the carpet, only focusing on the task at hand, and/or suggesting that the employee should see a Worker's assistant program that gives employees therapy due to work-stress they have. Through these processes, employees may take advantage of getting psychological help due to work stress, but come back to work with similar issues, continuing, or may resign or get fired or laid off, but the emotional issues may only linger on somewhere else! So the Employer with such insensitive and unprofessional way of handling the emotional issues will continue to be the "stable-one" in the process!
Another example are in the areas of performing-arts department. There are many many Talented individuals who try so hard to develop their skills, but when it comes to performing or giving all they have got on STAGE, they come short of Energy and Enthusiasm due to NERVOUSNESS to control their stage, and capture their audience's attention. Many times again they may get the wrong message from their coaches that they should just "practice, practice, practice" instead of giving much attention to the Feelings. For example, I even heard in one of the Leadership programs that I participated, the coach was promoting that we should not pay attention to our Feelings if we want to succeed, and that feelings are just "farts"!
All throughout my career in the world of psychology, time and time again I realized that emotions and feelings has been identified and treated as some kind of a "disorder". There are are also many sensitive individuals and children who may be extra-sensitive to their senses and they may be psychic or clairvoyant and may need extra attention and sensitivity to deal with the obstacles they confront throughout their careers. Many times they may be identified as bi-polar; people with attention deficit problems; mood disorder, to name a few. It is important to be under the care of medical and psychological professionals, but it is also crucial to further work on these specific issues with a coach, for our bright personal an professional careers.
It is important to have a coach in this important field who not only work with people with such feelings and sensitive issues, but to assist in helping and training our employers and Leaders to work on themselves and others in handling such issues. In our Technological-Global SOCIETY, Moral and Ethical issues that is got to do with feelings and emotional sensitivity of people, has become more important than ever before. The misunderstanding of people have increased in this fast-pace SOCIETY more than ever before. we cannot just move forward without doing something constructive that would benefit us to be more mindful and respectful of one another, but to prevent any harmful effect that may arise along the way......
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