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81 " I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept. —Angela Davis "
― Amy Cuddy , Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
82 " If you’re protecting yourself against harm — emotional harm or humiliation — you can’t be present, because you’re too protected. "
83 " when you become present, you allow others to be present. Presence doesn’t make you dominant in an alpha sense; it actually allows you to hear other people. And for them to feel heard. "
84 " Presence with others is first about showing up. Literally, physically, showing up. "
85 " Let the horse be taught… to hold his head high and arch his neck.… By training him to adopt the very airs and graces which he naturally assumes when showing off to best advantage, you have… a splendid and showy animal, the joy of all beholders.… Under the pleasurable sense of freedom… with stately bearing and legs pliantly moving he dashes forward in his pride, in every respect imitating the airs and graces of a horse approaching other horses. "
86 " As Anatole France wrote, “All changes… have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. "
87 " Presence is removing judgment, walls, and masks so as to create a true and deep connection with people or experiences. —Pam, "
88 " Musicians rely heavily on synchronous auditory feedback of their own performances—hearing the music they play as they play it. When that synchrony is artificially manipulated through earphones, musicians lose confidence in their abilities and become distracted trying to understand the asynchrony, which then impairs their performance. So, as Majid wrote, presence is “when all your senses agree on one thing at the same time.” Presence manifests as resonant synchrony. "
89 " En esencia, la autoafirmación es la práctica de ver con claridad tu historia, confiando en que quien eres se reflejará de manera natural en lo que dices y haces. "
90 " A head injury makes you feel confused, anxious, and frustrated. When your doctors tell you they don’t know what you should expect, and your friends tell you that you’re different, it certainly amplifies all that confusion, anxiety, and frustration. "
91 " a profession that required a fully functioning brain. As Anatole France wrote, “All changes… have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. "
92 " La presencia a la que me refiero es el estado de ser conscientes de nuestros verdaderos pensamientos, sentimientos, valores y potencial, y ser capaces de expresarlos sintiéndonos a gusto. "
93 " I am still ‘faking it until I become it,’ but faking it sure is better than avoiding it! "
94 " Cuando nos sentimos presentes, nuestras palabras, expresiones faciales, posturas y movimientos están en armonía. Se sincronizan y centran. Y esta convergencia y armonía interior es patente y resonante, porque es real. "
95 " Hay otra razón por la que solemos confiar en la gente que proyecta pasión, confianza en sí misma y entusiasmo: estos rasgos no se pueden fingir fácilmente. "
96 " Expanding your body frees you to approach, act, and persist. "
97 " Given the well-documented resistance of PTS to treatment, Seppälä was surprised by the results: a month after completing the intervention, veterans who took part in the weeklong yoga program showed reductions on all measures of PTS. "
98 " The paradox of listening is that by relinquishing power — the temporary power of speaking, asserting, knowing — we become more powerful. When "
99 " becomes confused and can only think clearly again [when he reaches] the bottom of the stairs.”2 "
100 " La presencia viene de creer y confiar en ti, en tus sentimientos auténticos y sinceros, en tus valores y tus aptitudes. Esto es importante, porque si no confías en ti, ¡cómo lo van a hacer los demás! "
