By practicing mindfulness, we strengthen our awareness of thoughts and emotions.  We’re able to observe ourselves with more choice about how we want to respond.  In this way, mindfulness promotes emotional regulation.

7 Days of Emotional Intelligence

Every Breath You Take

The breath can act as a calming presence that helps us be with difficult emotions and in turn, make better decisions.

Awareness

Curious Observation

Cognitive Flexibility

Attitudes of Mindfulness

Focus

How Are You Really

By acknowledging and accepting our emotions, we’re present to what we’re actually experiencing in the moment.  We can learn to savor our emotional experience.

How Are You, Really?

Riding The Waves

Rather than resist our emotions, we can learn how to surf.  We can bring awareness to the wave of emotion as it is first forming and observe the wave as it builds in intensity.

Riding the Waves

Use The Force Within

Mindfulness allows us to choose our response and reminds us that every emotion has something of value, something we can learn.

Use "The Force" Within

Listen To Your Heart

By strengthening our mindfulness practice, we’re more able to access the intelligence of the body to inform and guide our decision-making, our connections with others, and our self-care.

Listen to Your Heart

Being Brave Enough

Mindfulness reminds us to slow down.   It helps us set aside distractions so that we can be fully present –in the flow of life rather than in our thoughts about what’s happening.

Weve Got Soul

Emotional intelligence is not only the ability to feel and manage our own emotions.  It also includes the capacity to understand and connect with others on an emotional level.

7 Days of Emotional Intelligence

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