In the midst of this kind of "brain freeze," adults are most helpful to young people when they recognize the biological forces at work and make conscious efforts to "drain off" the child's intense emotions through purposeful, planned, non-reactive responses.
Let your inner voice tell your spirit to float inside you in lightness, mingling with your cells and emotions with purposeful restoration... Open your core to a sense of light blue tranquility... and see your spirit releasing a gentle golden glow.
She responds with almost no emotion, as blankly purposeful as they.
Mental illnesses affect the very fabric of human nature, robbing it of its various facets of personality, purposeful behaviour, abstract thinking, creativity, emotion, and mood.
Situation selection involves the "purposeful approach toward situations believed to result in pleasant emotions, and avoidance of situations believed to result in undesirable emotions" (Trosper et al., 2009, p. 238).
An unsmiling Mr. Hanks does a powerful job of conveying the conflicting emotions roiling beneath Sullivan's grimly purposeful exterior as he tries to save his son and himself from mob execution.
The finely tuned design gave intelligence, physical control, senses and emotions -- that point to organized, purposeful traits (not random) with consequences and rewards now and later.
As part of the Under the Radar Festival, the collective returned to the Kitchen on Thursday with the final installment of a trilogy, "BIG, 3rd episode (happy/end)," a purposeful exploration of the most lauded of Oprah-approved emotions: happiness.
When people need a range of emotion over the course of a day in order to be "purposeful and creative", she argues.
Understanding that negative emotions are normal, are to be expected and can actually be purposeful is a game changer for these women.
