I really need to develop emotional skills, but I don't really even know what they are, so I did a bit of googling. Came up with Daniel Goleman's emotional intelligence, that I heard of long ago, but a brief summary lays out five types of skills. How to develop these?

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/

eq5_raising_emotional_intelligence.htm

(The above is two parts of one link. It wouldn't display all the characters otherwise.)

Well, seems it has to do with awareness including body awareness of stress responses. Another link I came up with discusses emotions and skills in a way more familiar to me, in a context of meditational awareness. Another way I could work at it to improve.

http://www.bemindful.org/darkemotions.html

I thought both of these were insightful links, so I thought I'd share them. I am not affiliated witih these sites in any way, nor do I know the people involved. Just thought there was good food for thought and some guidance there.