Term

Conscious mental responses that are subjectively experienced as feelings, engaged or directed towards a specific object or event, and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body (Wallace, 2024). A person achieves emotional balance when their emotional states avoid the imbalances of hyperactivity, deficit, and dysfunction, and they exhibit adequate emotional responses via emotional awareness of themselves and others that arise from conative, ethical, attentional, and cognitive balance. A person achieves emotional balance by cultivating and employing their emotional intelligence.

Wallace, B. A. (2024, January 21). Severing the Roots of Our Discontent – The Buddhist Way. Lion’s Roar