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Getting in touch with your emotions and tendencies takes honesty and courage.
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When you allow yourself to sit with an emotion and become fully aware of it, you can understand what is causing it.
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Suspending judgment of emotions allows them to run their course and vanish.
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Since emotions are the primary drivers of your behavior, it’s important to understand the effect they have on other people.
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Your emotions are powerful weapons, and continuing to think that their effects are instant and minimal will only do you a disservice.
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Rather than avoiding a feeling, your goal should be to move toward the emotion, into it, and eventually through it.
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When you ignore or minimize an emotion, no matter how small or insignificant, you miss the opportunity to do something productive with that feeling.
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…ignoring your feelings does not make them go away; it just helps them to surface again when you least expect them.
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We all have button pet peeves, triggers… that, when pushed, just irritate and irk us until we want to scream.
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When you’re stuck in a down mood, it’s not a good time to make important decisions.
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