The ability to watch for process implies, and will promote, the development of an advancing degree of competence in the management of the emotional part of the self. This is because, in order to observe emotional process, it is necessary to stay emotionally calm. Watching emotional process requires the detached focus of a scientist; the moment one’s emotions intensify, one sees less clearly. Since emotional reactivity is infectious, it requires self-discipline to watch emotional process calmly and not become emotionally aroused. And like any new skill, the more one works at it, the more adept
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