10 Mindful Ways to Remain Calm When Others Are Clearly Out of Control

[Angel Chernoff]

You can’t calm the storm. What you can do is calm yourself, and the storm will gradually pass.​

Calmness is a human superpower. The ability to not overreact or take things personally keeps your mind clear and your heart at peace, which gives you the upper hand in most life situations. And it’s a daily practice too. Over the past several years I’ve been cultivating calmness in myself — I’ve been gradually taming my tendency to get riled up and argue with people when their behavior doesn’t match my expectations.

As human beings we all have an idea in our heads about how things are supposed to be, and sadly this is what often messes us up the most. We get (more…)