Notice when others could be building up your fears, perhaps for their own advantage. Also, deliberately consider your beliefs about dangers in the wo… - Rick Hanson

Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Some

The wolf of love sees a vast horizon, with all beings included in the circle of “us.” That circle shrinks down for the wolf of hate, so that only the nation, or tribe, or friends and family — or, in the extreme, only the individual self — is held as “us,” surrounded by threatening masses of “them.

The Responsive mode is our home base, but we’re easily driven from home and prone to getting stuck in the red zone due to the brain’s negativity bias, which makes it like Velcro for bad experiences but Teflon for good ones. •