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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
The alarm sits early in the chain, which is why it beats you to a conclusion. Speed is what it is for, and accuracy is not.
A fast, crude warning is exactly right when a car is coming and much less useful when it is your brother's tone of voice. Take the first signal as a…
The alarm gets the first word. It does not get the last one, unless you spend the next minute repeating what it said.
Most of the damage comes from the second, third and fourth sentence, the ones that agree with the first. You can let the reaction stand without…
When someone's tone lands as an attack, part of that reading was made years ago. Your alarm hands you stored learning dressed up as a plain fact about right now.
Knowing this takes the accusation out of the word bias. You are not a suspicious person by nature, you are a person carrying a file that was built…
You will hear tidy explanations of what your brain does when you get angry. Take the useful part and hold the neat story loosely.
Some popular claims about the emotional brain, including which side handles which feeling, are still argued over by the people who study them. That…
There is more about anger than the practices: the anger area has the themes and the courses too.
Two honest studies can point in opposite directions, and neither is a verdict on you. Nothing in a brain scan can yet tell one person how angry they are or will be.
Smaller amygdala volume has been linked with aggression in some samples, and eight weeks of mindfulness practice has also been linked with volume…