MINDFULNESS Mindfulness
8. I Want to Depend on You: Is a Healthy Codependent Relationship Possible? How to Avoid Crossing the Line
16. Stay or Change: How to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone and Build Resilience
24 Forgive Me for Me: Exploring the process of forgiveness that lets go of hurt and resentment.

32 Emotional Literacy: If you find it increasingly difficult to empathize with others and experience frequent conflicts in your relationships, it may be time to develop emotional literacy.

40 What's Gray: How to Find and Embrace the Gray Area Within You

WELLBEING Health and Happiness
50 There's No Happiness at the Finish Line: How to Find Freedom Without Seeking Perfection
56 Partner Dance, More Than Just Dance: There's more to it than just physical exercise.
64 Running Under the Sea: A Woman's Perspective on Deep-Sea Running
72 All About Inflammation: Few medical terms are as commonly used and yet so misunderstood as inflammation.

Learn more about this biological response from experts.


LIVING Discovering everyday life
82 Overcoming Networking Anxiety: If you can't avoid networking events, there are ways to make your time a little more comfortable.
88 Changing Your Home: If you find it difficult to decorate your own space the way you want, you must first figure out what you truly want in that space.
94 Dream Guest: It is surprising and strange when an animal appears in a dream.
What do animals in dreams mean?
102 Sky High: Since the White Stork returned to England, hopes of 'new beginnings' and 'connections' have spread across the world.


CREATIVITY Unique ideas
112 Creativity is fearless: Radiant creativity is born from overflowing energy and a bold spirit of experimentation.

120 Sculpting the Wind: A Pictorial Meditation Walking Through Layers of Sense and Memory

ESCAPE Relaxation and Experience
134 Estonia Experience: Instead of the typical tourist experience, why not immerse yourself in the local culture by participating in an arts or crafts workshop?
144 Natural Wonders: Wildlife Photographer of the Year

If you don't know your own feelings, you can't know other people's feelings.


We tell our children to be good people.
What makes a good person? Someone who is considerate of others, someone who is cheerful and bright rather than angry or irritable.
Meanwhile, we grow into people who hide their negative emotions and only express positive ones.
But every emotion has a reason.
Sadness and anger are just as much a part of our emotions as joy and happiness.
Yet, there is no opportunity to learn how to deal with and process uncomfortable emotions.
This is why emotional literacy is bound to decline.


'Emotional literacy (page 32) is the ability to recognize, understand, and express one's own emotions, and also includes the ability to understand the emotions of others.'
First of all, you must accurately recognize your own emotions before you can convey them to the other person.
It is impossible to understand someone else's emotions if you don't even know your own emotional state.
Ultimately, when emotional literacy is low, we are more likely to miss basic social cues or be fooled by flattery and charm that thinly disguise disgust and anger.


Have you ever thought about the act of forgiveness? While it may seem like an act of condoning the other person's behavior or seeking reconciliation, it's actually more about managing your own emotions and healing your inner self.
In 'Forgive Me for Myself (page 24),' it is explained how forgiveness lets go of negative emotions and frees us from pain.


Gray is mainly used to mean a state of being clear or unclear.
But most of the world is not divided into black and white dichotomies.
Emotions are the same.
Feelings that are both happy and anxious, and both sad and affectionate, fall into the gray zone.
In 'What's So Wrong with Gray (Page 40)', there is a way to break free from extreme emotional swings and accept your emotions that exist in the gray area.


Although emotions, like math or science, need to be learned, our society still fails to provide institutional support for this.
We hope you'll take the time to reflect on emotional literacy with Breed Issue 26.