We all like to live a happy, healthy and fulfilled life. Each one of us wants to be secure in a loving relationship, a well paying satisfying job and enjoy ourselves, yet few seem to be able to do just that. Why must we have so much suffering and disappointments?

With our feelings and emotions we experience ourselves in this world. They are the driving force, the power, and the motor of our life. Without feelings and emotions we would be like robots, a computer operating a body with the help of electric signals.

It is the feelings and emotions, our likes and dislikes that give our life meaning that make us happy or unhappy, fulfilled or dissatisfied and that to a large degree decide our course of action and even our health. Negative and suppressed emotions and feelings are a major contributing factor in causing diseases.

We feel pleasures as well as suffering in our life through our emotions. To avoid pain associated with the suffering, we intentionally diminish and/or ignore our feelings, our emotions. As an unintended side effect this also reduces the amount of pleasure that we can feel.

For many years, it was thought that a person's Intelligence Quotient (IQ) determined how people succeeded in life. However, in the last ten years, researchers have found that Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EQ) is a much better & effective predictor of a person's success in life than IQ.