Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their very nature, lead to one or another impulse to act. The root meaning of the word emotion, remember, is "to move.

We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to create a virtual boundary that didn't exist before.