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Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is more than a buzzword. Cultivating it is an essential component of striking the tricky balance between work and life. These articles will help you understand and develop your emotional intelligence and put it to work in your life.

By Laura Araujo

December 2, 2020

Choosing Equanimity Over Impassivity

The principle of equanimity is all about balance, resilience, and equilibrium. But it doesn’t mean that we must accept a life of passivity, in which we exist without emotion, without vibrancy, without humanness!

By Laura Araujo

October 15, 2020

Does Science Validate Affirmation?

Practices like expressions of gratitude offer a number of benefits – including giving us power to break habituations and allowing our brain to release a feel-good surge of neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and nerepinephrine.

By Laura Araujo

September 9, 2020

A World of Velveteen Rabbits

What is the most perfect thing in your life? But is it perfect?
As you think about your most perfect thing, you may begin to recognize that it’s full of flaws, imperfections, chips, and faults. That it’s anything but perfect — at least by that definition. And as you think about those “imperfections,” you may find a smile crawl across your face.

By Laura Araujo

August 6, 2020

Are Your Emotions In The Driver’s Seat?

Emotions influence how we engage with others, affect the decisions we make and our relationship with them, and how we respond to them, and communicate with them, makes all the difference.

By Laura Araujo

July 16, 2020

The Habit That Steals Our Happiness

When was the last time you felt truly happy for another being? The Buddha taught that our happiness is tied directly to the happiness of others. This practice of mudita, therefore, helps teach us to experience the joy of others in a heartfelt way, regardless of their relationship to us and, in so doing, nurture the seeds of our own happiness.

By Laura Araujo

July 8, 2020

Why Playfulness is Pertinent to Your Purpose

Play encourages abstract thought and improves our ability to imagine. It releases endorphins and helps us envision other perspectives — hello empathy!
Even more powerfully, recent research has shown that play helps build connections of neurons in the pre-frontal cortex — what I call “the boss” because it’s the decision making part of our brains.

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