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Joy Jangdhari
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It's really helpful because it teaches you techniques you can use at a later time and helps you to alleviate stress. The nice thing about the workshop is there is an educational component and a relaxation component at the end.
-Donna Ferraro, Psychologist
Training, Managing & Mentoring
Training is teaching people to do what they don't know how to do- Teaching
Managing is making sure people do what they know how to do- Telling
Mentoring is when someone who is really good at doing something, shares their knowledge and experience with someone who wants/needs to improve
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B. Research has revealed
A revolution in the science of emotion has emerged in the last few decades, with the potential to shift to a paradigm shift in thinking about decision theories. he research reveals that emotions constitute powerful pervasive and predictable drivers of decision making. Across different domains, important regularities appear in the mechanism through in which emotions influence judgment and choices. The present paper organizes and analyzes what has been learned from the past 35 years of work on emotion and decision making.
Emotion and Decision making - Jennnifer s. Lerner Harvard University
Ye Li - University of California Riverside
Piercarlo Valdesolo Clare Mont McKenna College
Karim Lassam Carnegie Mellon University
Manuscript submitted for publication in the Annual Review of Psychology
Mechanics of the mind
"Nothing is more important than being able to choose the way we think, our feelings aspirations and desires, the way we view our world and ourselves. Mastery of the mind means that we can begin to reshape our life and character, rebuild relationships, thrive in the stress of daily living and become the kind of person we really want to be."
- Eknath Easwaran
Letting Go
As you begin to gain the ability to calm your mind, explore your own thinking, and become a "self- witness" to your life, you also begin to notice that you also have the ability to make choices. Although you may typically think of choices in terms of the various things you can do, you might also consider the things you do not want to do. Ridding yourself of unwanted thoughts, or ways of thinking is still a conscious act. Here we will call it "letting go"
"Letting go" refers to letting go of the past. Not in the sense of forgetting, but in the sense of letting go of the pain and disappointment. It can also be called "releasing", but in many ways, it could also be called surrendering. Why can't you "not do " something the old fashioned way, by just stubbornly refusing or, even more classically, just pretending the issue or thought does not exist until it hopefully disappears? The answer is in the "why" you would let go in the first place...to eliminate tension, both emotionally and physically.
When buttons are being pushed
When a "button" gets pushed, we think we are reacting or responding to the "something" that is happening in that moment. But, if you take a couple deep breaths and step back into observer mode, you will often see that the intensity of your reaction seems extreme for the situation itself. This observation is not about passing judgement on yourself or telling yourself you are "over-reacting"
Climbing Tne Emotional Hill
When life comes at you quickly and unexpectedly, what do you do? What do you do when you feel overwhelmed emotionally? The events of daily life can range anywhere from easy to overwhelmingly difficult. The resulting feelings and physical reactions, depending on your perception of the severity of the events, can leave you stuck at the bottom of an emotional hill without the means to climb to a comfortable place on the other side. You can either judge how "bad" or how "not so bad" a particular incident is and get lost in whether you need to panic, hide, or ignore it... or you can just go ahead and climb the emotional hill.