April 2022 - Working with Difficult Emotions

We are imperfect beings living in an imperfect world.

Every day we experience unexpected challenges and bumps in the road, and the resulting difficult emotions they can churn up. When you feel emotions like disappointment, frustration or sadness, try to neither feed the emotion nor push the emotion away. I think of it as letting the emotion sit on a bench next to you. You’re not engaging it in conversation, you’re not giving it your sandwich, you’re just courteously allowing it to occupy the same bench. By letting go of your resistance and giving the emotion space to exist, you take away its power over you.