Below are the best resources we could find featuring karla mclaren about emotional health and well being.
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Empathy is a skill and a talent that you can develop at any stage of your life. If your empathy is too intense, you can learn to calm it down—and if your empathy is very muted, you can learn to increase it in healthy and sustainable ways.
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Are you struggling with anxiety? If so, you’ve probably tried the usual options—distraction, repression, medication, exercise, or just trying to ignore it. But anxiety evolved to help us.
In McLaren’s view, we typically perceive emotions as problems, which we then thoughtlessly express or repress. She advocates a more mindful approach, where we step back and see our emotions as sources of information.
Emotions―especially the dark and dishonored ones―hold a tremendous amount of energy. We’ve all seen what happens when we repress or blindly express them.
I don’t know what happened to emotions in this society. They are the least understood, most maligned, and most ridiculously over-analyzed aspects of human life.
Nearly all meditation and mindfulness practices incorporate grounding. In this Empathic Mindfulness practice, you’ll identify the specific emotion that helps you ground yourself—and the specific emotion that helps you develop clear intuition and focus.
There are 4 simple keys to becoming more skilled with your emotions, and the first is to stop thinking of emotions as positive or negative!
Karla McLaren talks about emotional health.
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