by Molly Gordon | Feb 10, 2017 | Activism, Emotional intelligence, Mindfulness, Resilience, Video, Wellbeing, Wisdom
I received this comment on YouTube In response to last week’s video, Settling Down Comes Naturally. This feels so true, Molly. It’s so hard to do when you have important decisions to make with a time limit, when you feel your options are limited and...
by Molly Gordon | Feb 3, 2017 | Activism, Emotional intelligence, Mindfulness, Video, Wellbeing
A key to effective action is to be settled down rather than reactive. The great things is that settling down happens naturally. It begins as soon as we recognize that we have gotten ramped up. When we notice that and stay out of the way, we naturally begin to settle....
by Molly Gordon | Dec 1, 2016 | Emotional intelligence, Three Principles, Video, Wellbeing, Wisdom
Too often we try to improve our human experience by managing it. We celebrate our highs and try to maximize them. We critique our lows and try to root them out. Though we do it in all innocence, all that managing and editorializing actually interferes with our inborn...
by Molly Gordon | Oct 11, 2016 | Breast cancer, Video, Wellbeing
Today in yoga class I was struck for a few moments by the miracle of the body: by what a marvelous, phenomenal, generous gift I had been given. That what Mary Oliver refers to as the “soft animal of your body” in her poem, “Wild Geese,” was...
by Molly Gordon | Oct 6, 2016 | Ambition, Confidence, Goal Setting, Success, Video, Wellbeing
I once heard in a 12 Step meeting, “I’ve been around these rooms for 35 years. The bad news is that every five years I got a new set of problems. The good news is that they were always higher quality problems.” There’s a lot of truth in this....
by Molly Gordon | Aug 8, 2016 | Emotional intelligence, Thought, Wellbeing
In the course of our lives we experience all manner of ups and downs. Sometimes strong feelings result, and we have a natural tendency to be compelled by them. The more intense the feeling, the more compelling it seems. But there is no necessary correlation between...
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