Anger and Rage Are Not Necessarily Malfunctions of the Mind
If you believe you’ve never become angry, you may have a case of memory loss. Anger is a universal emotion. All races and peoples know the hot internal surge of
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How We Use Our Emotions and Rational Faculties
We must understand how emotions and reason typically work before we understand how to use them. We have both beneficial and damaging use of both our emotions and rational faculties.
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How Our Two Rational Systems Work
Are we rational or emotional beings? Both — but we are predominantly emotional beings. So, how do these mental “compartments” function? How do we operate with our two rational systems?
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Our Struggle with Emotions
Understanding ourselves is the first step to being able to control ourselves and our emotions. I think we can all agree on that. But how are control and emotions related?
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Formalize Your Thinking About Emotions, The Mysterious Side of the Brain
To understand emotion is to understand who we are and to comprehend something of the complexity of ourselves. Emotion heats up in us for pleasure and pain every day we
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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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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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Your Emotions and the Magic Question
This week, we’re wrapping up the book study on becoming Intelligently Emotional. Even though the study may be coming to a close, the process (for most of us) is an
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Heard about the butterfly effect of emotional control?
Emotions are forces that drive us to either become our best or display our very worst. But how does that work? It turns out that it happens one emotional choice
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Who’s in emotional control here ?
Do you conduct a post mortem analysis every time you believe a relationship has gone wrong? It’s a pretty common thing to do if you’re feeling hurt. It can haunt
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Emotional Reactions and Your Window of Opportunity
Did you know that your emotional reactions are measured in thousandths of a second? They act with such speed that they make your analytical brain movements look like tired snails.
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