Mindfulness and flow · Command of self
Regulate emotion
Definition
Regulating emotion is feeling it fully enough to tell the truth, and refusing to let it choose the action.
The lesson
Mindfulness in this program is a training method. It is not a second philosophy beside Bushido. The code still decides what is right. Attention decides whether you can do it while angry, ashamed, or afraid.
When a strong feeling arrives, name it in one word before you speak or swing or send the message. Breathe slowly enough that the shoulders drop. Then choose the action the code already required. The feeling can remain. It does not get the vote.
Once today, name the feeling before you act. Take the action the standard requires, not the one the feeling prefers.
Suppression that calls itself calm, or venting that calls itself honesty.