Equanimous in a sentence as an adjective

You teach your mind not to fall into old patterns and to try and be equanimous.

Now, instead of getting caught up in it you just try to observe the sensations and try to be equanimous.

If you ever come to find that exploits in your code are used for someone else's personal gain I hope you can be equally equanimous.

" If 31% of your income dissapears tomorrow, and someone interviews you about it a few months from now, could you be this equanimous?

In fact, Travis starts replying in a fairly equanimous way, and loses it only after the driver starts blaming Travis for everything.

I've experienced the power of that equanimous reaction with something as simple as physical pain, which became a shadow of itself.

I feel in a more equanimous state by the act of praying - and I have made suitable modifications in my thought that I am conversing with nature, instead of God.

One thing I've never quite understood - if you are teaching yourself to become more equanimous how do you avoid becoming less concerned about the things that really matter also?

So someone who gets upset over that, well, if the teacher remains equanimous, that means the one who is thrashing is the student.- The overzealous assistant has his own thing going on, and so do you.

The BBC headline is interestingly different from the original article's more equanimous "War in the time of Neanderthals: how our species battled for supremacy for over 100,000 years.

Language is a funny abstraction to describe these, or any, types of experiences :P But basically what maxxxxx said, one can aim to be equanimous and yet also be committed emotionally.

It is particularly noteworthy that I'm able to observe a clear decline in my capability to stay equanimous and focused whenever I have had longer periods away from practice, which should not be the case if we were dealing with mere age-related endocrine changes.

Equanimous definitions

adjective

in full control of your faculties; "the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble"

See also: collected poised self-collected self-contained self-possessed