Quotes About Awareness

The most powerful form of nondefensive listening, of course, is empathy: actually hearing the feelings behind what is being said.

The neocortex allows for the subtlety and complexity of emotional life, such as the ability to have feelings about our feelings.

Other research has shown that in the first few milliseconds of our perceiving something we not only unconsciously comprehend what it is, but decide whether we like it or not; the "cognitive unconscious" presents our awareness with not just the identity of what we see, but an opinion about it.7 Our emotions have a mind of their own, one which can hold views quite independently of our rational mind.

Emotional aptitude is a meta-ability , determining how well we can use whatever other skills we have , including raw inellect .

the ability to monitor feelings from moment to moment is crucial to psychological insight and self-understanding. An

Decades before we began to drown in a sea of distractions, cognitive scientist Herbert Simon made this prescient observation: "What information consumes is attention. A wealth of information means a poverty of attention.

practical skills that are based on its five elements: self-awareness, motivation, self-regulation, empathy, and adeptness in relationships.

We live in a world our minds build rather than actually perceiving the endless details of what is happening.

Whenever you notice your mind wandering," a fundamental instruction in meditation advises, "bring your mind back to its point of focus." The operative phrase here is whenever you notice. As our mind drifts off, we almost never notice the moment it launches into some other orbit on its own.

no birthday, concert, hangout session, or party can be enjoyed without taking the time to distance yourself from what you are doing" to make sure that those in your digital world know instantly how much fun you are having.

Empathy builds on self-awareness; the more open we are to our own emotions, the more skilled we will be in reading feelings.

shapes those feelings.

Ten muy presente que tu enfoque determina tu realidad».

The executive circuits that allow us to think about our own thoughts and to monitor the feelings that flow from them let us apply the same reasoning to other people´s minds when we choose to direct our attention that way

Some time is needed to grasp the psychological and moral dimensions of a situation. The more distracted we are, the less we can cultivate the subtler forms of empathy and compassion.

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.

De todas las dimensiones de la inteligencia emocional, la empatía es la que se reconoce con mayor facilidad.

If the heart wanders or is distracted," advised Francis de Sales (1567–1622), a Catholic saint, "bring it back to the point quite gently . . . and even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back . . . though it went away every time, your hour would be very well-employed.

An altered trait—a new characteristic that arises from a meditation practice—endures apart from meditation itself.

ser consciente de uno mismo significa «ser consciente de nuestros estados de ánimo y de los pensamientos que tenemos acerca de esos estados de ánimo».

Attunement to others demands a modicum of calm in oneself.

emotional intelligence counts more than IQ or expertise

Daniel Goleman

And one of the paradoxes is that leaders, the higher they go, the less vertical feedback they get on how they're actually doing, because people are afraid to tell them. So leaders can go off in a direction thinking they're doing fine, not realizing they're not