One Minute Mindfulness: How To Be With Hard Emotions

In this talk, Geoff Bell-Devaney discusses ways that we can be with whatever difficult emotions we might be experiencing with more compassion and acceptance. In doing this, we can begin integrating them and experiencing greater power and peace as a result.

Transcript

Meditation, Turning inward, Having the courage to courageously and compassionately meet our fear and our shame and our jealousy and our sadness, Whatever it is, All of these emotions that we spend our lives running from, Right? Covering up. When we start to turn towards them, We start to turn our attention inward and exploring our patterns. Exploring our old ways of being, These conditioned ways of being, These ways that keep us separate from ourselves and from others, From life. And we start to explore these old unconscious ways that we've been living as if on autopilot. And start to let go of those. Choose to orient towards the moment and choose to orient towards ease and to meet whatever emotions might arise, To feel them with courage and compassion and gentleness. That's how we awaken.