Creating A New Mind — Where Do We Start?
Key to our success in controlling emotions is… Well, let me ask you a question. Do you remember what lies at the core of all conscious human functioning (behavior) and
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Manage Emotions to Strengthen the Grip on Yourself
Keep three words in mind when you want to use more tools to teach yourself and others the management of emotions. They are: distract, disconnect, reframe. All three are ways to
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Using Our Rational Brain to Get a Grip on Ourselves
Using words we all can readily understand, the emotional brain needs to be calmed down at times, especially when we are in the grip of an emotional outburst. So far,
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Healthy Emotions! What Is Their Value?
Emotional Control (continued) Have you ever noticed that happy people tend to control their emotions better than angry people? I wonder why? Happiness produces a state of relaxation and in
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Practice the Art of Leaning In
When you meet obstacles, do you tend to step back or lean in? Either action can be appropriate depending on the circumstances. But one certainly seems like a more reactive
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How to Teach Emotional Control
Let’s talk about distraction, and how it almost magically works to achieve emotional control. But first, we have to note: distraction can be the immediate cause of an emotional outburst
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Finding Truth Without an Abundance of Evidence
Straight Thinking About Facts — Part 2 There’s even more to straight thinking about facts than the issues to which I referred in my last article. We must consider how
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Thinking About Facts Must Be “Straight” Thinking
Straight thinking is also all about the facts. What facts? All that can be known. And how do we define a fact? Facts are truths that can be verified in
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The Fading Art of Standing Out
Have you recently experienced the intense pressure of current “groupthink”? It seems so many topics (once considered personal decisions) are now subject to invasive demands that you just go along
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Straight Thinking Demands Honesty and Truthfulness
Straight thinking is all about another “moral” necessity: honesty and truthfulness. Honesty not only includes telling the whole truth accurately, but honesty must be the motivation when seeking to tell
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“Straight” Thinking Tells the Whole Truth
Meeting the requirement to tell the whole truth to ensure straight thinking is a tough task for us all. Facts are where we tend to make our most common crooked
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Is the Best Really Yet to Come?
What are you hoping for? Good things or bad things? I’m sure you’ve heard the old adage, “Hope for the best. Plan for the worst.” most of your adult life.
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