How to Deal with Emotions

Influence your emotional reactions with increased awareness of impulses and behaviors

Awareness is against our nature Nature doesn’t make it easy for us to learn how to deal with our emotions. After nearly 50 years of research, I don’t believe that …

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Emotional Awareness for Children

A new approach to provide emotional skills for children

July 11, 2018 A human experience We are the only creatures capable of attaching words to memories, anticipations, and plans; it is this unique ability that also allows us to …

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A Special CEB Teacher Training Opportunity

A Letter from the Other Ekman

A Letter from the Other Ekman By Eve Ekman, PhD October 5, 2017 I am writing this letter to let you know about a special training opportunity which is very …

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Anger Can Be Useful

Your anger problem and you

January 27, 2017 Anger is Not Always Destructive We shouldn’t try to get rid of anger, which seems to be the mistaken goal of some new age-y groups and some …

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Constructive Anger

How to deal with anger

September 22, 2016 The following excerpt about constructive anger is taken from the book of dialogue between the Dalai Lama and myself, entitled Emotional Awareness (2009). Having just reread it, …

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Eve Ekman on Cultivating Emotional Balance

Finding insight in awareness

June 23, 2016 Our emotional responses shape our experience of the world. Emotions can feel profoundly enriching, as when we feel pride from great success or the elation of new …

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How I Became Friends with the Dalai Lama

Paul Ekman and the Dalai Lama

May 16, 2016 A Happy Accident Like most other important events in my life, meeting the Dalai Lama was not a deliberate choice, but an accident. I avoided anything about …

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