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Emotional Agility:
…the person who has the final say over what’s of value in your life should be you.
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80 |
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Emotional Agility:
What we really need to do… is to just welcome these inner experiences, breathe into them, and learn their contours without racing for the exits.
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80 |
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Emotional Agility:
One of the greatest human triumphs is to choose to make room in our hearts for both the joy and the pain, and to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
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81 |
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Emotional Agility:
Sometimes, in our struggle with difficult circumstances, we make things much worse for ourselves. We take raw pain and convert it into real suffering.
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81 |
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Emotional Agility:
If we can’t label what we’re feeling, it becomes difficult to communicate well enough to get the support we need.
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84 |
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Emotional Agility:
…we don’t feel guilty about the things we don’t care about.
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85 |
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Emotional Agility:
…labeling our emotions… They can be beacons, not barriers, helping us identify what we care about and motivating us to make positive changes.
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85 |
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Emotional Agility:
…we don’t feel guilty about the things we don’t care about.
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85 |
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Emotional Agility:
Showing up to these feelings can help you anticipate the pitfalls and prepare more effective ways of coping during critical moments.
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86 |
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Emotional Agility:
In each study, Pennebaker found that the people who wrote about emotionally charged episodes experienced a marked increase in their physical and mental well-being.
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90 |
