Eric Maisel on emotional mastery

“Mindfulness includes minding your emotions. If you know it will rile you to re-read that curt email from that literary agent, delete it. What are you saving it for? Become someone who is able to mind her emotions…

“You get angry, you get envious, you get depressed. You are not a stone, nor do you want to be a stone. You have no intention of not feeling. You have no intention of taming your emotions so well that you end up domesticated and limp.

“You want your full measure of emotion, as emotion is the life blood of art… But that doesn’t mean you should be a slave to your emotions.”

Eric Maisel, PhD, from his podcast Episode 6: Minding Your Emotions – listen to it on the page Overcoming Obstacles to Creating.