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Emotional Agility:
…we can say with confidence that showing up and applying words to emotions is a tremendously helpful way to deal with stress, anxiety, and loss.
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92 |
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Emotional Agility:
…to live an intentional, meaningful life and to really thrive, one of the most critical skills to develop is this ability to take a meta-view, the view from above that broadens your perspective and makes you sensitive to context.
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95 |
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Emotional Agility:
It’s only by being fully in the present, fully attuned to the ‘now,’ that we can deal with the moment in an emotionally agile way.
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97 |
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Emotional Agility:
By paying attention to what’s going on around us, rather than ignoring it or just going along with the program, we can become more flexible and insightful.
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97 |
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Emotional Agility:
Mindfulness can help us… follow the original commandment of self-improvement, straight from the Oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece: Know thyself.
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100 |
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Emotional Agility:
Emotional agility means having any number of troubling thoughts or emotions and still managing to act in a way that serves how you most want to live.
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106 |
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Emotional Agility:
‘Walking your why’ is the art of living by your own personal set of values – the beliefs and behaviors that you hold dear and that give you meaning and satisfaction.
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Emotional Agility:
If you know your own personal values and generally live by them, you are also likely to be comfortable with who you are.
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120 |
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Emotional Agility:
When you know what you do care about, you can be free from the things you don’t care about.
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123 |
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Emotional Agility:
When you connect with your real self, and what you believe to be important, the gulf between how you feel and how you behave closes up.
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