Sublime

self-binding openly recognizes the limitations of will.

Fully Present: The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness, Susan Smalley and Diana Winston

5. Stepping Out

Your Inner Critic

It enables us to become fully aware of what is happening—and to restrain

Becoming sensitive to the background causes of one’s thoughts and feelings can—paradoxically—allow for greater creative control over one’s

Emotional agility means having any number of troubling thoughts or emotions and still managing to act in a way that serves how you most want to live. That’s what it means to step out and off the hook.

Whatever we may think we’re accomplishing by bottling or brooding, neither strategy serves our health or our happiness.

Power and Control.