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Since emotional regulation is the critical issue in managing the effects of trauma and neglect, it would make an enormous difference if teachers, army sergeants, foster parents, and mental health professionals were thoroughly schooled in emotional-regulation techniques.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Dr. James Williams—who works on the philosophy and ethics of technology at Oxford University—he told me: “If we want to do what matters in any domain—any context in life—we have to be able to give attention to the right things…. If we can’t do that, it’s really hard to do anything.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
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The Wayward Mind by Guy Claxton.
Joe Vitale • Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More
That is where the question came from. In dealing with others and reacting to their negative emotions with my own, I found myself asking this question: If I loved myself truly and deeply, would I let myself experience this? The answer, always, was a no. It worked beautifully. Because I’d been working on the mental loop, the step after no was clear.
Kamal Ravikant • Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It: The positive self-help phenomenon
“ We build our own prisons and serve as our own jailkeepers… but clearly our parents and the society at large have a hand in building our prisons. They create roles for us — and self-images — that hold us captive for a long time. The individual intent on self-renewal will have to deal with ghosts of the past — the memory of earlier failures, the re
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