Our emotional intelligence allows us to recognize emotions while experiencing them. Emotional intelligence can be perceived as a type of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use the information to help guide one's thinking and congruent actions.
Self-awareness (intrapersonal intelligence) and empathy and handling relationships (interpersonal intelligence) can also be perceived as dimensions of social intelligence.
Mapped to the Sweet Medicine Wheel healing preferences, the concept of emotional intelligence would be a part of void healing. Void healers or healing uses both seers, existential and emotional, and those two can call on all other intelligences (forms of healing).