Environment and Emotions
Does our environment, upbringing, and culture have a part to play in the formation of our emotional makeup? People often ask me this question. Answer: yes and no! They can
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Do Emotions Have Purpose?
Emotion warns us about what is happening in our world, both good and bad. Emotions flag us that we are in danger or in love. Dr. Robert C. Solomon has
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Emotions Empower Our Strengths
Travel with me through the intriguing land of our emotions to become familiar with its landscape. Intelligent emotions are no more and no less than living in the strengths we
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Can You Take Charge of Your Emotions?
It is with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince Have your emotions puzzled you, driven
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How Emotions Can Help
I have heard this so often: “Why don’t you write it down for me?” So I have. Struggling with our emotions is a challenge. So I have responded to all
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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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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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5 Steps to Quickly Calm Our Emotions
Are you in control of your emotions? Controlling our emotions isn’t easy or everyone would be doing it! This is a question that very much needs an answer — and
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To calm our emotions isn’t easy or everyone would be doing it! This is a question that very much needs an answer — and it is not just for those
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