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Good News About Bad Moods

If our thoughts and minds are not the best gateway to tap into resilience, what is? Our bodies.

Barbara Fredrickson.

It’s also why shame rarely leads us to take action to make amends.

It makes sense, then, that in early and middle age, it can be so hard to turn our minds away from tribulations. To serve our principal aims at those times, we need to be receptive to the real presence of negatives in order to learn from and deal with them. The problem arises when we allow ourselves to become mired in the emotions they generate; whe

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Emotional agility means being aware and accepting of all your emotions, even learning from the most difficult ones. It also means getting beyond conditioned or preprogrammed cognitive and emotional responses (your hooks) to live in the moment with a clear reading of present circumstances, respond appropriately, and then act in alignment with your d

Seligman’s book Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being (New York: Atria Books, 2012).