Reducing The Economic Gap May Be Impossible

Worries Typically Follow Such Lines, A Narrative To Oneself That Jumps From Concern To Concern And More Often Than Not Includes Catastrophizing, Imagining Some Terrible Tragedy. Worries Are Almost Always Expressed In The Mind's Ear, Not Its Eye - That Is, In Words, Not Images - A Fact That Has Significance For Controlling Worry.

All The Classical Meditation Traditions, In One Way Or Another, Stress Nonattachment To The Self As A Goal Of Practice. Oddly, This Dimension Is Largely Ignored In Scientific Research, Which Tends To Focus On Health And Other Such Benefits. I Suppose The Difference Has To Do With The Contrast In Views Of The Self From The Spiritual And Scientific Perspectives. Scientists Value The Self; Spiritual Traditions Have Another Perspective.

Teachers Need To Be Comfortable Talking About Feelings. This Is Part Of Teaching Emotional Literacy - A Set Of Skills We Can All Develop, Including The Ability To Read, Understand, And Respond Appropriately To One's Own Emotions And The Emotions Of Others.

Emotional 'literacy' Implies An Expanded Responsibility For Schools In Helping To Socialize Children. This Daunting Task Requires Two Major Changes: That Teachers Go Beyond Their Traditional Mission And That People In The Community Become More Involved With Schools As Both Active Participants In Children's Learning And As Individual Mentors.

If You Do A Practice And Train Your Attention To Hover In The Present, Then You Will Build The Internal Capacity To Do That As Needed - At Will And Voluntarily.