Actively managing our feelings comes down to a series of fast-paced decisions. We are constantly bombarded with an enormous quantity of sensory data, memories and mental ruminations. If we’re unaware of the affect this stimulus has on us, we’ll react unconsciously, according to our programming and habits. If we learn to pay attention, we see that there’s a split second in which we can observe our first impulse and either go with it or decide to step back and choose to experience the moment with a conscious…
Equanimity.
