By Emma Seppälä — 2013
Compassion research is at a tipping point: Overwhelming evidence suggests compassion is good for our health and good for the world.
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Despair may knock the wind out of you, but when embraced and managed effectively, it can also lift you to even greater heights.
72% of entrepreneurs are directly or indirectly affected by mental health issues compared to just 48% of non entrepreneurs.
Inspiring others when you’re struggling yourself.
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The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.
Most of us struggle at one time or another with an inability to feel what’s going on inside us at the level of emotion and energy flow. The technical term for this problem is “alexithymia.”
One of the most in-depth meditation studies to date shows that different practices have different benefits.
In McLaren’s view, we typically perceive emotions as problems, which we then thoughtlessly express or repress. She advocates a more mindful approach, where we step back and see our emotions as sources of information.
I don’t know what happened to emotions in this society. They are the least understood, most maligned, and most ridiculously over-analyzed aspects of human life.
In Kelly McGonigal’s new book, The Upside of Stress, she argues that stress can “transform fear into courage, isolation into connection, and suffering into meaning.”
Guy Raz from NPR interviews research psychologist Kelly McGonical about how we can be better at understanding stress.