Quotes About Emotions

El estado de ánimo de las personas cuando su mente divaga tiende, hablando en términos generales, hacia lo displacentero, hasta el punto de que pensamientos con un contenido aparentemente neutro se ven ensombrecidos por una carga emocional negativa. Pareciera como si la mente errante fuese, en parte o casi totalmente, una de las causas de la infelicidad.

os sentimentos são essenciais para o pensamento e vice-versa. Mas, quando surgem as paixões, esse equilíbrio se desfaz: é a mente emocional que assume o comando, inundando a mente racional.

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 effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

it seems likely that the states we practice in meditation gradually spill over into daily life to mold our traits—at least when it comes to handling stress.

Just seeing someone express an emotion can evoke that mood, whether you realize you mimic the facial expression or not. This happens to us all the time—there's a dance, a synchrony, a transmission of emotions. This mood synchrony determines whether you feel an interaction went well or not." The

selection focuses almost exclusively on intellectual abilities, emotional intelligence carries much more weight than IQ in determining who emerges as a leader.

En resumen, pues, el reaprendizaje emocional –una tarea que, ciertamente, no concluye nunca– puede remodelar hasta los hábitos emocionales más profundamente arraigados de nuestra infancia.

You can't separate the cause of an emotion from the world of relationships—our social interactions are what drive our emotions.

Una serie de nuevos estudios realizados en el National Institute of Mental Health (Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental) han hallado que antes de los dos años de edad los niños parecen universalmente sintonizados con la congoja de otro niño y la mayoría de las veces intentan ayudarle de algún modo.

Aristotle put it, the rare skill "to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way.

Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not easy. ARISTOTLE, The Nichomachean Ethics

An estimated 85 percent of those with dyssemia have the deficit because they failed to learn how to read nonverbal signals or how to respond to them, either because they did not interact enough with their peers or because their family did not display a given range of emotion or followed eccentric social norms.

Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not easy.

The subcortical circuits that know such gut truths before we have words for them include the amygdala and the insula. A scholarly review of gut intuitions concludes that using feelings as information is a "generally sensible judgmental strategy," rather than a perennial source of error, as the hyperrational might argue.1 Tuning in to our feelings as a source of information taps into a vast amount of decision rules that the mind gathers unconsciously.

humans the prefrontal cortex takes up a larger ratio of the brain's top layer, the neocortex, than in any other species, and has been the site of the major evolutionary changes that make us human. This neural zone, as we will see, holds the seeds of awakening to enduring well-being, but it is also entwined with emotional suffering. We can envision wonderful possibilities, and we also can be disturbed by worrisome

la gente que prospera en la vida (que tiene relaciones positivas y un trabajo gratificante, que considera que su existencia tiene sentido) experimenta al menos tres acontecimientos emocionales positivos por cada uno negativo.

First, emotional intelligence

Similarly, of all emotional signals, smiles are the most contagious; they have an almost irresistible power to make others smile in return.

Cualquiera puede enfadarse, eso es algo muy sencillo. Pero enfadarse con la persona adecuada, en el grado exacto, en el momento oportuno, con el propósito justo y del modo correcto, eso, ciertamente, no resulta tan sencillo.

las emociones perturbadoras y las relaciones tóxicas han sido identificadas como factores de riesgo que favorecen la aparición de algunas enfermedades.

Thus while we cannot decide when we have our emotional outbursts, we have more control over how long they last. A quicker recovery time from such outbursts may well be one mark of emotional maturity.

Si hay menos mal humor en las altas esferas, también lo habrá en el resto del escalafón.

A consciência de nós mesmos e dos outros, e a sua aplicação na gestão do nosso mundo interior e das nossas relações, são a essência da inteligência emocional.

A atenção plena permite-nos quebrar o fluxo de pensamentos que poderiam, caso contrário, levar-nos a ficar prisioneiros da infelicidade, transformando a nossa relação com o próprio pensamento. Em vez de sermos arrastados por esse fluxo, conseguimos parar e ver que isto são apenas pensamentos – e escolher agir ou não de acordo com eles.