Stories By

Viral Mehta

12 stories on DailyGood

How to Transform Negative Emotions

"The word emotion comes from the Latin emovere, meaning to 'move through or out.' So in its original form, there ...

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Why Patience Pays Off

"Consider this powerful quote by Lao Tzu: 'Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles, and the water is ...

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How Vulnerability Can Be a Strength

The word vulnerable itself comes from the Latin 'vulnerare' which means 'to wound', and so at the root of ...

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Assuming Value Everywhere

"I noticed that there was one kid who no one was really talking to. He had a serious kind of disability, and some of ...

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The Sweet Spot Between Doing and Being

Activity balanced with rest: it's the way all of nature works, a beautiful reminder that everything is in ebb and ...

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Becoming a Presence Activist

"A friend of mine is visiting from out of town and staying in East Oakland, in an area that's infamous for its gang ...

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Attention as an Art Form

185 billion bits of information. In an average lifetime, this is what the human brain is capable of processing. With ...

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Servant Leadership: Helping People Come Alive

"It's a powerful perspective on work -- holding within it a value for collaboration, agency, creativity, and ...

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How to Stop Labels From Becoming Judgments

"A yoga teacher of mine was describing a class he held for girls struggling with anorexia. He asked them to stand ...

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The Last of the Human Freedoms

"True freedom lies in choice -- this is one of the core insights in the writings of Viktor Frankl, a pyschiatrist ...

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Building a 'Muscular Empathy'

"'We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.' In attempting to empathize, we're ...

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Learning From the Wisdom of the Body

"It's amazing that our interpretation of experiences can generate intense visceral responses. The fact that we get ...

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