However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

School success is not predicted by a child's fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional and social measures; being self-assured and interested: knowing what kind of behavior is expected and how to rein in the impulse to misbehave; being able to wait, to follow directions, and to turn to teachers for help; and expressing needs while getting along with other children.

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.