The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
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For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities.Daniel Goleman
But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.
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Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
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Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.
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Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.
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When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.
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