Emotional Mastery
The ability to feel fully and still choose your response.
Mastery is not suppression, and it is not venting. It is the small gap you create between stimulus and reaction, then use. That gap is trained the same way strength is: under load, repeatedly, in low-stakes conditions before high-stakes ones.
Also called: emotional regulation · composure
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