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Your emotional disposition is more than just who you are...

For a couple of years now, I have been practicing a technique called "mindfulness" -- a term, which is used in several senses by different people, so let me define it here. It is a technique by which we try to understand our emotional disposition or emotional profile , by observing our emotions over a long period of time. Emotional disposition is different from our emotional "state" -- the latter simply refers to how we are feeling right now. Emotional states are transient, and in fact, just asking someone how are they feeling, may make them feel different. Our emotional disposition is our strategic tendency to be in certain areas of the emotional state space, than certain others. It is how we tend to feel and what we tend to pursue when we are under no external pressure. In that sense, our emotional disposition is "who we are" as a person. But, it is more than just about who we are. If we find out things about ourselves -- things that we int