Quotes About Reactivity

Your Authentic Self emerges when you're unburdened by the rash judgments, negative self-talk, fears, and reactivity of your Imposters.

Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation.

The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

But then I realized how unhealthy it was, sensing the absence of life, not just in this building but everywhere, and not reacting—do you see? I guess you don't. But that used to be considered a sign of mental illness; they called it 'absence of appropriate affect.

Because all living things are connected on vibrational energy levels, our basic emotional state is picked up and reacted to by all life forms around us. It is well known that animals can instantly read a person's basic emotional state. There are experiments demonstrating that even the growth of bacteria is affected by human emotions, and that plants register measurable reactions to our emotional state (Backster, 2003).

If players cannot see what's going on in a game and adapt then they are no good and they will not win anything.

Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.

Newborn boys, on average, are actually more emotionally reactive than girls. For example, studies show that baby boys cry more than baby girls when they are frustrated or upset.

Writing in a journal activates the narrator function of our minds. Studies have suggested that simply writing down our account of a challenging experience can lower physiological reactivity and increase our sense of well-being, even if we never show what we've written to anyone else.

Simply put, reactivity cuts off seeing clearly.

The absence of limits and boundaries is actually quite stressful, and stressed kids are more reactive.

connection calms the nervous system, soothing children's reactivity in the moment and moving them toward a place where they can hear us, learn, and even make their own Whole-Brain decisions. When the emotional gauge gets turned up, connection is the modulator that keeps the feelings from getting too high. Without connection, emotions can continue to spiral out of control.

The downstairs state of reactivity doesn't know what to do with a lot of upstairs words. Often, in moments of reactivity, nonverbals (like hugs and empathetic facial expressions) will be much more powerful.

Benefit #1: Connection Moves a Child from Reactivity to Receptivity

connection offers the short-term benefit of moving kids from reactivity to receptivity, and the long-term benefit of building the brain.

We want to engage the upstairs brain's receptivity, rather than trigger the downstairs brain's reactivity. Then the higher parts of the brain can communicate and help override the lower, more impulsive and reactive parts.

In general, our windows of tolerance determine how comfortable we feel with specific memories, issues, emotions, and bodily sensations. Within our window of tolerance we remain receptive; outside of it we become reactive.

When that trait is an integrated mind, this means that we can move from automatic reactivity without choice to the freedom of responsiveness with choice.

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.

mindsight permite que seamos conscientes de nuestros procesos mentales sin vernos arrastrados por ellos; que nos liberemos del automatismo de las conductas arraigadas y de las respuestas rutinarias, y que rompamos los ciclos emocionales reactivos en los que tendemos a quedarnos atrapados.

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

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

LEADERS Initiate Lead; pick up phone and make contact Spend time planning anticipate problems Invest time with people Fill the calendar by priorities FOLLOWERS React Listen; wait for phone to ring Spend time living day-to-day; react to problems Spend time with people Fill the calendar by requests