Quotes About Well-being

The ability to express feelings is an important life skill. But forever expressing upset feelings tends to restimulate them.

As you learn to accept your emotions fully, however, without allowing them to drive or limit your behavior, you'll find it less necessary to change or fix them.

of course, we don't love painful feelings like anxiety or depression. We don't have to love or even like them, but we do have to accept them, as difficult as that can seem at times.

One cannot be exploited or thwarted from nine to five, then come home and feel loving and lovable.

We transmit and catch moods from each other in what amounts to a subterranean economy of the psyche in which some encounters are toxic, some nourishing.

People with well-developed emotional skills are also more likely to be content and effective in their lives, mastering the habits of mind that foster their own productivity; people who cannot marshal some control over their emotional life fight inner battles that sabotage their ability for focused work and clear thought. A

In the calculus of the heart it is the ratio of positive to negative emotions that determines the sense of well- being.

It's the most important relationships in your life, the people you see day in and day out, that seem to be crucial for your health. And the more significant the relationship is in your life, the more it matters for your health."43

Lessening the grip of the self, always a major goal of meditation practitioners, has been oddly ignored by meditation researchers, who perhaps understandably focus instead on more popular benefits like relaxation and better health.

Among the main biological changes in happiness is an increased activity in a brain center that inhibits negative feelings and fosters an increase in available energy, and a quieting of those that generate worrisome thought.

and how toxic emotions put our physical health at as much risk as does chain-smoking, even as emotional balance can help protect our health and well-being.

You need the negative focus to survive, but a positive one to thrive

beneficial impact on our health, while toxic ones can act like slow poison in our bodies.

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.

There can be a downside to the achievement drive: some people become workaholics, completely focused on their work goals and neglecting to live a full life. You can see this in students who are "grinds," driven to get the highest grades at the sacrifice of everything else in their lives, just as you see it in those successful executives who work 18-hour days all through the week – and in anyone who has perfectionistic standards.

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

The biological influence passing from person to person suggests a new dimension of a life well lived: conducting ourselves in ways that are beneficial even at this subtle level for those with whom we connect.

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

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

Those who can manage their emotional lives with more calm and self-awareness seem to have a distinct and measurable health advantage, as has now been confirmed by many studies.

A negatividade foca-nos num âmbito estreito – aquilo que nos perturba. Uma regra empírica na terapia cognitiva defende que focarmo-nos nos aspetos negativos da experiência é uma receita para a depressão.

The more everyday mindfulness, the greater the subjective boost in well-being.

los remedios más poderosos para acabar con el enfado consiste en volver a encuadrar la situación en un marco más positivo.