5th Place, 102 2nd Street, Linden, Randburg (2025)

15/09/2025

📖 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

🧠 This timeless reminder speaks directly to emotional mastery. We can’t always control what happens around us, but we can learn to understand, manage, and regulate our inner world. By focusing on our thoughts and responses, we build resilience and strength, enabling us to face life’s challenges with greater calm and clarity. Emotional mastery brings peace, enhances relationships, and supports both physical and mental health.

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12/09/2025

🌱 “Living Resilience Plant” Activity

Growing a plant is more than just a hobby, it’s a daily reminder of your own resilience. Each time you water and nurture it, you’re also nurturing yourself, strengthening the nourishing and relating pillars of emotional fitness. Small, consistent acts of care mirror the way emotional mastery works: through daily awareness, regulation, and gentle persistence. Just as plants flourish with light and water, you flourish when you practice presence and kindness toward yourself.

💡 Emotional mastery isn’t about controlling every feeling, it’s about building resilience and balance. The “Living Resilience Plant” makes this visible: you grow stronger when you take time to care. Ignore this work, and you risk staying stuck in cycles of stress, depletion, and disconnection. Don’t let neglect, of yourself or your emotions, cost you joy.

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11/09/2025

230. Wings of imagination

11 September 2025

A moment of imagining that one orchid can whisper to another, reminded us of childhood times when our imaginations kept us keen company. As adults, has living got in the way of imagining?
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Chantal walked into the bathroom. It was Wednesday morning and she had a lot on her mind. Her daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter had flown out early that morning to go on a two month working holiday abroad. No more “granny day” for two whole months.

On the window sill five orchids in various stages of flowering, were silhouetted against the morning sun. One miniature orchid’s stem was full of buds with two flowers starting to stretch and show off their lemon yellow petals tinged with crimson. It was curved over another miniature plant that was struggling. It only had small slightly limp looking leaves and no stem to be seen. There was some hope as a new leaf had started to poke out from the middle.

In that moment Chantal imagined that the flowering orchid was whispering encouragement to the smaller, more fragile one:

“You can do it. Just hold on. You will also be growing tall with flowers soon.”...

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10/09/2025

🌿 “The body heals with play, the mind heals with laughter and the spirit heals with joy.”

— Proverb

🌸 When was the last time you gave yourself permission to play, laugh, or just be? Emotional mastery equips you with tools to manage stress, find balance, and create room for joy, skills many people miss when they don’t actively learn them. Don’t let life pass without learning how to truly nourish your spirit.

Our course “Emotional Mastery for a Better Life” is designed to help you integrate this wisdom into daily life.

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09/09/2025

💡 Among remote workers, difficulties in emotion regulation were significantly linked to increases in depression, anxiety, and stress. Loneliness partially mediated the effect between regulation difficulties and depression (indirect effect b = 0.056, 95% CI = 0.025–0.093).

Emotional mastery is about learning to understand, express, and regulate emotions in ways that strengthen resilience and psychological robustness. When we struggle to manage emotions, the effects ripple out, making challenges feel heavier, increasing stress, and even straining our immune system. Mastering emotions, however, helps us respond more calmly, cultivating peace, presence, and a greater sense of joy. It benefits not just our mental health, but our physical well-being too.

🌱The Emotional Mastery for a Better Life course is designed to equip you with skills that prevent you from falling behind in this essential area of personal growth.

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08/09/2025

📖 Zora Neale Hurston: “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

💡 This insight reminds us that life moves in cycles, sometimes uncertain, sometimes clear. Emotional mastery helps us stay grounded through both, by regulating emotions, reducing stress, and fostering deeper empathy and connection. It’s the key to living with peace, presence, and joy.

🌱 Are you equipped to navigate the questioning years and embrace the answering years? The Emotional Mastery for a Better Life course can help you cultivate resilience and balance.

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04/09/2025

#229: Chaos Places

A book about a place of mayhem that offers opportunity amidst uncertainty leaves us wondering about this place we live in and how chaos is necessary for creation and life.

We drove around the corner on Rustenburg Road towards the Service Station Café and Love Books. Chantal glanced down at the car’s clock.

“It’s not even 17:30, how come we are so early this time?” she asked.

“I think it’s going to be popular given all the hype about it. It’s better to get here early”, said Matthew.

We are seldom early for anything but as we turned into the small car park there was barely an open space left. We squeezed into the second last one and felt sorry for the three cars trying to get in. It was now full. Chantal was grateful for Matthew’s instincts.

Inside it was already buzzing with people. The Service Station Café had been opened to allow for more seating. A large table of snacks and a counter offering wine or water was two deep. We found seats and collapsed. Very quickly we were squeezed in by others claiming places to sit. The place hummed with conversation. The volume got louder as bodies, unable to find seats, crammed against each other, waiting.....

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03/09/2025

💬 “The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.”

— The Art of Happiness, Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler

Caring for others strengthens the relating pillar of emotional fitness. Emotional mastery helps us build resilience, empathy, and stronger communication skills so that relationships aren’t just functional but deeply nourishing. When we regulate our emotions effectively, we create space for compassion and meaningful connection. This balance not only improves mental health but also enhances physical well-being by lowering stress and boosting vitality.

🌱 Choosing to invest in your emotional mastery means choosing better relationships, with yourself and others. The Emotional Mastery for a Better Life course gives you tools to strengthen your relating pillar, deepen empathy, and communicate with clarity. Imagine the ripple effect of bringing more calm and care into every interaction.

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29/08/2025

📊 A 2025 Frontiers in Psychology report shows that serious games for emotional regulation training enhance emotional expressiveness, reappraisal skills, and mood in young adults. These tools strengthen emotional self-awareness and regulation without adding cognitive overload.

Emotional mastery is about more than just keeping calm, it’s about building resilience, sharpening focus, and learning how to stay grounded when life throws curveballs. Through the feeling pillar of emotional fitness, tuning into your body’s signals allows you to identify emotions early and regulate them resourcefully.

💡 The Emotional Mastery for a Better Life course helps you avoid these pitfalls, equipping you with proven strategies to regulate emotions effectively, before they overwhelm you. Don’t wait for stress or disconnection to become your default state.

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28/08/2025

Enabling the How, 228. No crying shame

A crying toddler with no clue why to crying adults that squirm at the loss of control. These are emotional expressions that, if we could accept and be present to, may teach us more than we know.

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All was quiet. Leah was down for her afternoon nap. Staff were having lunch outside. The ambient music from the sunroom could be heard through the half closed office door over the tick-tick of fingers on keyboards. Chantal sighed, there was time for her to complete the report due for the work done for the university.

A wail emanated from the room next door. Too soon. Leah needed to sleep longer....

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27/08/2025

“Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn’t formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.” — Lee Haney

💪 Movement is not just about physical strength — it’s about emotional mastery. The "Moving" pillar of emotional fitness reminds us that our bodies are designed to move, and when they get stuck, so do our emotions. Regular movement helps release stress, boosts our mood, and regulates emotions, building resilience and balance in the process. Emotional mastery is about recognizing how even small, consistent actions can support inner calm and psychological robustness. It’s about aligning mind and body for peace, presence, and happiness.

🚀 Don’t let stagnation hold you back. If you’re not cultivating emotional mastery now, you risk falling into patterns of stress, disconnection, and missed opportunities for growth. Why let life’s challenges control you, when you can take charge? Join the Emotional Mastery for a Better Life course and start building resilience — one step at a time.

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26/08/2025

📊 Employees with high EQ scores earn an additional $29,000 on average per year than those with lower EQ. (Workforce.com)

Emotional mastery isn’t just about managing feelings, it’s about unlocking resilience and psychological strength. When we learn to regulate our emotions, we approach challenges with greater calm, peace, and clarity. This not only reduces stress but also supports physical health by strengthening the immune system and boosting overall wellbeing. Emotional intelligence and mastery make us more effective, empathetic, and adaptive in our professional and personal lives. No wonder it’s linked to higher earning potential and long-term success.

🌱 The Emotional Mastery for a Better Life course can help you take that next step.

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