Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
1 min readSep 14, 2023

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You might appreciate my poem on emotional intelligence, https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/of-emotional-intelligence-ffa90d946d59. The three tanka, one dizain, and two imayo stanzas poem ends with:

"Time for an imayo course, of intense EQ

Do not pursue happiness — it and sadness both fleet

Contentment is where you’ll find, serene state of mind

Allow emotions to flow, return there lest blow

Please understand the stoics, don't push feelings down

The word does not reflect roots, Marcus A. rolls eyes

Do not get carried away, yet please deeply feel

If you lava dome feelings, end up like Pompei"

The responded to these two prompts:

"12. How can you become more mindful of the way you handle composure vs. emotional expression?

13. How can practicing feeling your feelings fully, even when it is deeply uncomfortable, benefit you?"

Regarding anger, I wrote this tanka in May 2021:

"Anger has value

Signals moral core raided

My space invaded

Blood boiling yet controlled rage

Saber of Light rules the page"

If you're interested in the back story: https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/justified-rage-6ee693f47da0 subtitled "Tanka inspired by an incident of hate speech and debate over who has the standing to judge"

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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