ABSTRACT
Buddhist teachings have long proposed education in attention, and psychotherapy offers emotional tutorial through paying attention to what is overlooked, ignored or actively denied. Just as Buddhists see destructive emotions as those which cloud the mind, so Daniel Goleman describes how emotions are more powerful than thoughts in "capturing" the attention, taking space within the narrow band of attention away from objects of learning. Not, as so often happens, in a rush to endorse emotionality and intuition at the expense of reason, a mere exchange of one pole of imbalance for another, but in a search for balance between the two hemispheres of the brain, between being and doing, and between the masculine and feminine voices. In contrast to a voice that is masterly, hierarchical and logical, concerned with identity, separation and independence, the feminine voice is more aware of and concerned with difference and interdependence, response and relationship, community and complementarity.
