Emotional intelligence begins with emotional awareness and your ability to recognize and understand what other people are experiencing. Empathy is something that is really difficult to curate it's really difficult to develop but can play a huge part in improving your relationships open communication talking about things when you see them, using humor to relieve stress and laughter their natural antidotes to conflict and to heavy emotional situations. Conflict doesn't necessarily mean a bad thing it is a learning opportunity and it's important for your emotional intelligence to be able to navigate that situation  to learn what workedLearn what made you feel better but what made other people feel better as well in order to increase your EQ or reap all those benefits we've talked