Feeling a new, elevated emotion can signal a new gene in a new way, while reliving a past negative emotion can downregulate that gene and upregulate a gene for disease.

A difficult meditation where you feel uncomfortable is not a failure; it's the crucial moment where you are actively overcoming yourself, which is the entire point of the practice.

Instead of revisiting and analyzing past trauma, the key to healing is to overcome the emotion associated with it, as the memory without the emotional charge is wisdom.

Gaining insight into why you have certain behaviors often doesn't lead to change and can become an excuse, as insight alone rarely changes behavior.

The way we recount the past is not how it actually happened, and we often embellish the story, meaning we are reliving a miserable life we never even had.

An emotional reaction lasting for hours is a mood, for weeks is a temperament, and for years becomes a personality trait, meaning you haven't biologically changed.

When you generate elevated emotions like love, your oxytocin levels can rise to a point where, according to research, it becomes biologically impossible to hold a grudge.