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"The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain."
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"If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment."
"My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence."
"The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication."
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"But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before."
"If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far."
"If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily."
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