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Want Better-Behaved Kids? Manage Your Own Emotions Like This
It’s normal to experience emotions at home or at work: frustration, anger, fear, excitement. But how you handle these feelings as a parent or leader can go a long way toward building—or destroying—your relationships. It’s essential to develop the ability to regulate your emotions, but perhaps not in the way…
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How Feeling Down Can Make You Mentally Strong
To be alive is to feel. Travis, a veteran of the war in Iraq who was in my research study on yogic breathing for post-traumatic stress, shared with me at the beginning of the study that he was unable to feel emotions. He told me there had been a suicide…
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An Ultramarathon Runner’s Secret to Mental Toughness
Push harder, further, faster. Sweat, blood, and tears. That’s the way to succeed, no matter what you want to do. Or is it? Emilia Lahti, a social activist and psychology researcher from Finland, knows a thing or two about grit. A survivor of domestic violence, she set out to personally…
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One Thing No One Talks About That Helps You Heal Faster
It was a classic case to Dr. James Doty, neurosurgeon at Stanford University and Director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. A young, obese patient walks in complaining of back problems. Medical training would have a surgeon look at the MRI results, discuss surgery options with…
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