One Minute Mindfulness: Men Need To Embrace Their Emotions

In this teaching, Geoff Bell-Devaney discusses how men need to accept all their emotions if they are to heal and begin to experience true inner peace. By embracing their emotions, they can begin accepting reality and living more in the moment.

Transcript

My name is Jeff Beldevine, And I've been practicing and teaching mindfulness meditation for 25 years. And I want to share with you something that's super important. And that is that every single one of our emotions is so vitally valuable to us in terms of becoming real men. So much of our societal influences, Shun weakness, Fear, All of that stuff. Insecurity, Anxiety. Men aren't supposed to feel that right and it's changing but for a long long long time that's been how it's been and I'm here to tell you, If you really want to know true strength, You really got to start embracing all your feelings because you're human, You feel them. And it's in meeting them. It's in being gentle. Like if you're an adult, If you're a parent, And you treat your child with kindness, Treat yourself that way. Embrace all your emotions, Your weakness, Your fear, All of that stuff. It's actually the doorway to finding true strength, And true freedom and inner peace.