Quotes About Well-being

canoes, and they float down their own river of well-being. Many of the challenges we face as parents result from the times when our kids aren't in the flow, when they're either too chaotic or too rigid.

As parents become more aware and emotionally healthy, their children reap the rewards and move toward health as well. That means that integrating and cultivating your own brain is one of the most loving and generous gifts you can give your children.

And for those with an enlarged amygdala, which is involved in excessive emotional reactivity, mind training leads to a decrease in this overly differentiated neural node of our emotional life.

mental health as our ability to remain in a "river of well-being.

We all move back and forth between these two banks as we go through our days—especially as we're trying to survive parenting. When we're closest to the banks of chaos or rigidity, we're farthest from mental and emotional health. The longer we can avoid either bank, the more time we spend enjoying the river of well-being.

Daniel J. Siegel

Se compone de tres facetas: comprensión, empatía e integración. Como explicaremos en capítulos posteriores, se trata de entender tu propia mente; de tener capacidad de autoconciencia y autorregulación.

works with the right to tell our life stories. When children learn to pay attention to and share their own stories, they can respond in healthy ways to everything from a scraped elbow to a major loss or trauma.

We can likely grow those soothing fibers that extend from the prefrontal upstairs brain into the downstairs brain.

resiliencia consiste también en saber recuperarse, en pasar rápidamente de la zona roja o de la azul a la verde: en abandonar el caos o la inflexibilidad para recuperar la armonía dentro de la ventana de tolerancia.

By giving your children repeated experiences that develop the whole brain, you will face fewer everyday parenting crises. But more than that, understanding integration will let you know your child more deeply, respond more effectively to difficult situations, and intentionally build a foundation for a lifetime of love and happiness.

develop the ability to live with balance, to face adversity with resilience, to

understand themselves, and to care for others. Balance. Resilience. Insight. Empathy.

Hallar una manera de calmar un sistema límbico demasiado reactivo es esencial para reequilibrar las emociones y reducir los efectos perjudiciales del estrés crónico.

Below an income of … $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. … Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries.

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.