Week 20: Equanimity, Composure and Confidence

Equanimity
How do you handle stress and distraction?
If you find that you cannot maintain focus as much as you wish you could , or you think that your grades are suffering due to a lack of composure or confidence, you might need to practice. When our mind is calm and stable, we feel relaxed, it feels good. Many of us have a hard time feeling this relaxed, good feeling, it is very uncomfortable becuase we are not used to it. So we lose control of our thoughts and body movements. We wiggle in our seats, call out, take things personally, and even get angry and frustrated sometimes.
When our mind and body are calm and within our control is it called equanimity. It is easy to have this in normal situations, but when unexpected things happen it is a little more difficult to hold onto. Another word for equanimity is composure, and another personal quality that will help us have it is confidence, self-confidence.

Journal Entry #20: Composure, confidence and equanimity
Write your own definition of these three terms. For each term also recall a time that you used these qualities in your own life, or describe a real life situation in which you wish you could have used these qualities.