Anxiety
Investigating Your Emotions Without Suppressing Them
Founding editor Barry Boyce answers our questions about emotional intelligence, being kind to ourselves, and turning toward our emotions.
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Calm
A 20-Minute Practice to Hold the Emotional Body
Yoga and meditation teacher, speaker, and author Leslie Booker offers a practice to check in with your body, breath, and heart.
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Calm
Good News: Our Emotions Aren’t Set In Stone
Emotions are changeable and culturally constructed—which means we get to choose how we feel about how we feel.
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Calm
Mindfulness and Protesting: How to Show Up Without Burning Out
Learning to be present with ourselves may not seem like it directly influences efforts to create change, but it can deepen our awareness and impact how we speak out.
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Anxiety
The Real Danger of Suppressing Your Emotions
A key element of emotional intelligence is the way you regulate your difficult emotions—But not all emotional regulation techniques are created equal.
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Calm
How to Test Your Emotional Maturity
Learning the language of emotional maturity is like learning a second language. If you weren’t raised with it, it may take tens of thousands of hours to master.
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Using Mindfulness to Befriend All of Our Emotions
Mindful Founding Editor Barry Boyce talks with Stephanie Domet about the power of emotions, and how we can become aware of our feelings without being overwhelmed by them.
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Calm
Why Emotional Self-Control Matters
Releasing anger and frustration can actually help you regain control over a hectic day or win back productivity after feeling frazzled. But you have to do it with awareness.
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Calm
Finding Your Way Back Home
For Dena Simmons, “mindfulness was not something that I got to do by sitting in a quiet space and meditating.” She shares her mindful journey from the streets of Bronx to the ivory towers of Yale and back.
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Calm
Two Lessons on Emotional Growth
This animation from School of Life describes the two types of emotional desires we seek, and how they have the power to determine the decisions we make.
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