The Elephant/Rider metaphor, from Jonathan Haidt’s The Happiness Hypothesis, can serve as a very useful model of our mind; one that helps us to understand “how it works,” and thus to better develop and improve the thinking skills and strategies that enable happiness and well being.
Mindfulness is your Rider in a mental state of self-directed focused awareness on what is happening in the present moment [i.e., the emotions your feeling, in such a way as to constructively respond to the reactions being experienced.
SQ is an evidenced-based way to actually retrain the Elephant and effect lasting change…