Emotional Flexibility

Emotional flexibility is about embracing the never-ending contradictions and cultivating your mind to hold everything at the same time.

Holding happiness, joy, and enthusiasm at the same time as anger, sadness and frustration provide us with resilience and a deeper understanding of life.

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