Mindfulness: How to Call Off the Emotional Attack Dogs

Nature didn’t give us any tools to control our emotions. That is why psychologist Paul Ekman, author of Emotions Revealed, says you need to keep a diary of your emotions, writing what you are experiencing in great detail.

There are two things that people want to be able to do to improve their emotional life. You want to be able to choose what you become emotional about and when you become emotional. That’s number one. And the second is you want to be able to choose how you act when you are...