Dear emanatepresnece:

my answers to Your questions:

1) “When emotional mastery moves from theory to practice, from words to actions, how does it look?” Emotional mastery doesn’t have a look. It doesn’t look like any particular thing.

2) “How is a person who has mastered their emotions recognized?” A person who mastered his/ her emotions cannot be recognized. A person trying to look like he mastered his emotions, a guru type. And when such a person recognizes a person looking for a guru, there is a match.

3) “What is the highest standard of emotional mastery you can imagine or envision?” A personal standard, highly personal. Not something to show off like a new car or a college degree.

4) “What are its characteristics, it attributes, how does it look in everyday life?” Some of the characteristics are the ability to endure distress, to not automatically react to distress in destructive ways, to calm oneself down when agitated and before acting, patience with oneself and with others. These do not look, again, like anything in everyday life: there is no look, a glitter in the eye or a certain strong chin, or a head held high… no appearances to emotional mastery.

anita