How to sit with emotions

The process of sitting still and being with our emotions can be extremely uncomfortable. Many of us choose to either avoid our feelings or instantly react to them without thinking, so it can be quite overwhelming in our meditation practice when we’re put in a position to just observe them as they ar

Any time there is a transition from being on a break from work back to the everyday routine, it is a struggle. However, this past transition from winter break to teaching in January seemed a little tougher than usual. My students seemed off, I seemed off, and I had to plan for a sub day in the middl

I masked my avoidance pretending it was mindfulness. If I felt a negative emotion, I worked hard to shift away from it to experience something more pleasant. I believed if I was experiencing negative states, I didn’t have much mastery of my own mind. ⁣ ⁣ It wasn’t until recently that I learned the power of negative emotions and learning to sit with being uncomfortable. By allowing myself to fully experience negative states, they have less power than when I was avoiding them ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣…