In her book Real Happiness, Sharon Salzburg has a meditation around emotions. Starting with noting the tone of our thoughts or the feeling tone in the mind – does it feel calm? is it harsh? Noting it for example, “jealousy, jealousy”. Then location the emotion in the body, perhaps a knot in the stomach, the shoulders hunching up. Consciously resting in awareness, gently allowing emotions and feelings to be here as they are. Observe and not getting stuck in judging – “what am I feeling right now? What is its nature? Where am I experiencing it in my body?” Emotions come and go and the heart can infinitely heal if we allow it.
Poem from The Sun And Her Flowers, by Rupi Kaur
what is stronger
than the human heart
which shatters over and over
and still lives
Guide: Noelle Lim
Image credit: Ag Juwel, Unsplash
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