Quotes About Balance

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

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant," Albert Einstein

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.

Csikszentmihalyi told me, "People seem to concentrate best when the demands on them are a bit greater than usual, and they are able to give more than usual. If there is too little demand on them, people are bored. If there is too much for them to handle, they get anxious. Flow occurs in that delicate zone between boredom and anxiety.

alteran la función neuroendocrina y provocan desequilibrios de los sistemas inmunitario y nervioso, de modo que somos más propensos a sufrir enfermedades y nos cuesta pensar con claridad. El ritmo circadiano se trastorna y dormimos mal.

Existen dos tipos de miedos, señala el Dalai Lama: el miedo irreal, que nos impele innecesariamente hacia un estado agitado de cavilaciones baldías, y el tipo útil, que nos hace cautos o nos activa y prepara de cara a una amenaza esperada.

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.

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.

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.

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.

El bombardeo continuo de correos electrónicos, escritos y facturas –la "catástrofe completa" de la vida– nos arroja a un estado cerebral antitético

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.

A wealth of information means a poverty of attention.

Then, there's the mistaken notion that EI always matters more than

And wisdom to know the difference.

todos los tipos de estrés provocan una excitación adrenocortical que contribuye a bajar el umbral de la irritabilidad. De este modo, después de un duro día del trabajo, una persona se sentirá especialmente predispuesta a enfadarse en casa por las razones más insignificantes –el ruido o el desorden de los niños, por ejemplo–, razones que en otras circunstancias no tendrían el poder suficiente para desencadenar un secuestro emocional.

The power to disengage our attention from one thing and move it to another is essential for well-being.

As Aristotle saw, the problem is not with emotionality, but with the appropriateness of emotion and its expression.

Según Damasio, para tomar una buena decisión tenemos que aplicar sentimientos a los pensamientos

coffee-then-nap combination known as the "nappuccino.

We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.

Dark, light, dark, light, dark-I swung and missed.

Nobody keeps score, because there's no sense in keeping track of what everyone is doing.

The neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks goes one further: If you're working on two completely separate projects, dedicate one desk or table or section of the house for each. Just stepping into a different space hits the reset