emotional intelligence
Yufa and
emotional intelligence
To avoid self-examination is to numb ourselves into present pleasure to avoid pain – a meaningless life.
the core skill of emotional literacy is paying attention to feelings in order to determine what emotions you are currently experiencing.
David R. MacIver • Labelling Feelings 101
One of the things that happens as boys are growing up is they learn about a very restrictive version of masculinity, a list of things that you’re not allowed to do or say. Particularly around emotions: You’re allowed to be angry, and you might be able to cry if something’s really bad — like a sports team you’re on loses a really important game, or... See more
Keren Landman • How to talk to boys so they grow into better men
When we feel stressed, anxious, irritated, or angry, one of the things that happens to the mind is that it shrinks down and zooms in on the challenge at hand—the stressful moment, the emotion we don’t want to feel. There’s a researcher, Andrew Huberman at Stanford, who calls this “the soda straw view” of the mind. This is the view of stress. When
... See moreNate Klemp • A 12-Minute Meditation to Widen Your Perspective
Emotional Endurance
Just get good at paying attention to bodily sensations. It might help to actually try saying things out loud, or writing them down, just going through a list of everything you notice about how your body feels right now. What you will tend to notice over time is that there are certain characteristic familiar patterns of how you are feeling.
David R. MacIver • Labelling Feelings 101
