With Understanding, My Spirit Is Always Cool.
One of the best ways to remain calm in any agitating circumstance is to practice understanding. Seeking to understand gives me information and insight and eases my reactivity. It keeps my emotional thermostat dialed down if I am tempted to lose my cool. Perhaps poet Rudyard Kipling was referring to understanding in his poem “If” when he wrote of the importance of “keep[ing] your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.” Properly mastered, my power of understanding gives me the strength and presence of mind to be a beacon in times of trouble or crisis. Whatever this day may bring, I will carry the light of understanding with me. I am cool in spirit. I am understanding.
One who is cool in spirit has understanding.—Proverbs 17:27
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