Calmness - Wikipedia Calmness From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Mental state of inner peace A Calm, by James Gillray Doing meditation could help people be in a calm state. Calmness is the mental state of peace of mind being free from agitation, excitement, or disturbance.[1] It also refers being in a state of serenity, tranquillity, or peace.[2] Calmness can most easily occur for the average person during a state of relaxation, but it can also be found during much more alert and aware states.[3] Some people find that focusing the mind on something external, such as studying, or even internal, such as the breathing, can itself be very calming. Calm can also mean numerous words such as “yes”, “no”, “relax”, “maybe” and many other words. According to Asiphe Hlelo Gwala (2020) states that if someone is to ask a question or make a statement the response “calm” can provide a well known understanding based on the circumstances. E.g. “Hey would you like to come to the party?” “Calm, I'll see you there” or “calm, I'll have to check” or “Calm” Contents 1 Childhood origins 2 Cultivating calmness 3 Peace of mind 4 Etymology 5 Cultural examples 6 See also 7 References Childhood origins[edit] Parental soothing (by rocking, holding etc.) in infancy lays the foundations of the capacity to self-calm.[4] Thereafter transitional objects can help maintain calmness,[5] while pets as self-objects also promote soothing and calm.[6] Cultivating calmness[edit] Calmness is a quality that can be cultivated and increased with practice,[7] or developed through psychotherapy.[8] It usually takes a trained mind to stay calm in the face of a great deal of different stimulation, and possible distractions, especially emotional ones. The negative emotions are the greatest challenge to someone who is attempting to cultivate a calm mind. Some disciplines that promote and develop calmness are prayer, yoga, relaxation training, breath training, and meditation. Jon Kabat-Zinn states that “Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.” [9] Sarah Wilson recommends reducing one's exposure to choices/decisions as a route to calm.[10] Peace of mind[edit] Another term usually associated with calmness is "peace".[11] A mind that is at peace or calm will cause the brain to produce "good" hormones, which in turn give the person a stable emotional state and promote good health in every area of life, including marriage.[12] Seeing the rise in crime and diseases around the world which are more often than not the consequences of the emotions going 'out-of-control',[13] it is therefore considered beneficial for many to stay calm and cultivate it in every possible situation, especially during stressful events such as demise of a family member or failure in business. Etymology[edit] The term comes from Middle English calme, from Old French, from Old Italian calmo, from Late Latin cauma, "heat of the day", the "resting place in the heat of the day", from Greek kauma, burning heat, from kaiein, to burn.[2] Cultural examples[edit] Gibbon praised Boethius: “the sage who could artfully combine in the same work, the various riches of philosophy, poetry, and eloquence, must already have possessed the intrepid calmness, which he affected to seek”.[14] Rear Admiral Spruance, carrier commander at the Battle of Midway, was nicknamed Electric Brain because of his calmness in the hottest action.[15] Lord David Cecil saw Wuthering Heights as dominated by the contrast between what he called on the one hand “the principle of storm...and on the other, the principle of calm – of the gentle, the merciful, the passive, and the tame”.[16] See also[edit] Look up calmness in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikiquote has quotations related to: Calmness Ataraxia Equanimity Humorism Stress Vagus nerve References[edit] ^ "Calm – Definition of Calm by Merriam-Webster". ^ a b "Calmness – definition of calmness by The Free Dictionary". TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved 2016-04-01. ^ A Ben-Ze’er, The Subtlety of Emotions (2001) p. 57 ^ A Schore, Affect Regulation and the Origin of Self (Hillsdale 1994) p. 226 ^ D W Winnicott, The Child, the Family and the Outside World (Penguin 1973) p. 168-9 ^ C Blazina ed., The Psychology of the Human-Animal Bond (2011) p. 154 ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 13, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) ^ D Goleman, Emotional Intelligence (London 1996) p. 214 ^ "Quotes About Calmness". ^ S Wilson, First, We Make the Beast Beautiful (London 2018) p. 210-11 ^ "Calmness Synonyms, Calmness Antonyms – Merriam-Webster Thesaurus". ^ ABC News. "Study: Bad Hormones Lead to Bad Marriages". ABC News. Retrieved 2016-04-01. ^ "Controlling Anger — Before It Controls You". apa.org. Retrieved 2016-04-01. ^ E Gibbon, Abridged Decline and Fall (Penguin 2005) p. 444 ^ R Overy, Why the Allies Won (London 2006) p. 46 ^ Quoted in R Wallace, Emily Bronte and Beethoven (2008) p. 49 v t e Emotions (list) Emotions Acceptance Adoration Aesthetic emotions Affection Agitation Agony Amusement Anger Angst Anguish Annoyance Anticipation Anxiety Apathy Arousal Attraction Awe Boredom Calmness Compassion Confidence Contempt Contentment Courage Cruelty Curiosity Defeat Depression Desire Despair Disappointment Disgust Distrust Ecstasy Embarrassment Vicarious Empathy Enthrallment Enthusiasm Envy Euphoria Excitement Fear Flow (psychology) Frustration Gratification Gratitude Greed Grief Guilt Happiness Hatred Hiraeth Homesickness Hope Horror Hostility Humiliation Hygge Hysteria Indulgence Infatuation Insecurity Inspiration Interest Irritation Isolation Jealousy Joy Kindness Loneliness Longing Love Limerence Lust Mono no aware Neglect Nostalgia Outrage Panic Passion Pity Self-pity Pleasure Pride Grandiosity Hubris Insult Vanity Rage Regret Social connection Rejection Remorse Resentment Sadness Melancholy Saudade Schadenfreude Sehnsucht Self-confidence Sentimentality Shame Shock Shyness Sorrow Spite Stress Suffering Surprise Sympathy Tenseness Trust Wonder Worry World views Cynicism Defeatism Nihilism Optimism Pessimism Reclusion Weltschmerz Related Affect consciousness in education measures in psychology Affective computing forecasting neuroscience science spectrum Affectivity positive negative Appeal to emotion Emotion and art and memory and music and sex classification evolution expressed functional accounts group homeostatic perception recognition in conversation in animals regulation interpersonal work Emotional aperture bias blackmail competence conflict contagion detachment dysregulation eating exhaustion expression intelligence and bullying intimacy isolation lability labor lateralization literacy prosody reasoning responsivity security selection symbiosis well-being Emotionality bounded Emotions and culture in decision-making in the workplace in virtual communication history moral self-conscious social social sharing sociology Feeling Gender and emotional expression Group affective tone Interactions between the emotional and executive brain systems Meta-emotion Pathognomy Pathos Social emotional development Stoic passions Theory affect appraisal discrete emotion somatic marker constructed emotion Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Calmness&oldid=993678047" Categories: Positive mental attitude Happiness Emotions Hidden categories: CS1 maint: archived copy as title Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikiquote Languages עברית 日本語 Sicilianu Српски / srpski 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 11 December 2020, at 22:12 (UTC). 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