Meditation: How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind by Pema Chödrön

Author:Pema Chödrön [Chödrön, Pema]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sounds True
Published: 2013-04-30T22:00:00+00:00

Recall that anything can arise in space and be the object or support for your training. So now mentally fabricate or, using a memory or a visual, bring forward in your awareness the emotion that’s unpleasant and place your attention on the emotion. See if you can contact the texture of the feeling. If someone asked you to describe the feeling of the emotion, how would you describe it? Fully put your attention on the emotion itself, just as it is.

Some people find it helpful to feel for the emotion’s temperature or texture, or its location in the body. For some people this is very easy; for others it is quite difficult. Just do your best to be present with the unpleasant emotion. Do that for a short time, and then once again rest in open awareness. If at any point your mind wanders off, gently bring it back without the labels of “right” and “wrong.” Often our emotions take us into the story or the thoughts. When the thoughts arise, notice them, notice the thinking, then bring yourself to the feeling of the emotion. There, in the immediacy of the emotion, feeling into it, lies the possibility of moving into openness and acceptance. You’ll find that this is quite liberating and eventually quite settling.

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