What Is Emotional Agility?

So emotional agility, it's the ability to be able to be compassionate, curious with our thoughts, our emotions and our stories. But also it's not just this abstract idea, it's the ability to be courageous enough to take values connected steps. So a very big part of emotional agility is- Can you just define what are values connected steps? That seems like an important phrase. So If I, again, going back to the example that I mentioned earlier, if I feel rage when I watch the news, I could push that aside or I could be hooked on the rage and just act in a way that hurts people. But if I'm able to show up to that rage and say to myself, you know, what is it that I'm feeling right now? What is this difficult emotion that I'm experiencing? What is this emotion signaling to me that is important? Okay, so for me, the rage is signaling that I value fairness and justice and there isn't enough of it. Values connected steps are then about saying what are actual physical actions that I can take that bring me towards my values. And what's really important here is you're not doing this in the hot emotion. You're not doing it in the rage and so now I'm acting out. Rather, you're doing it in a way that feels intentional and connected and that is bringing you closer to being the person you want to be.