Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.

- Daniel J. Siegel

We must keep in mind that only a part of memory can be translated into the language-based packets of information people use to tell their life storie…

- Daniel J. Siegel

For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.

- Daniel J. Siegel

Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize its own processes and cr…

- Daniel J. Siegel

We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. (p. 221)

- Daniel J. Siegel

Adolescents who are absorbing negative messages about who they are and what is expected of them may sink to that level instead of realizing their tru…

- Daniel J. Siegel

Recent studies of mindfulness practices reveal that they can result in profound improvements in a range of physiological, mental, and interpersonal d…

- Daniel J. Siegel

Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As our mind clings to the familia…

- Daniel J. Siegel

From early infancy, it appears that our ability to regulate emotional states depends upon the experience of feeling that a significant person in our …

- Daniel J. Siegel