Sitting With The Uncomfortable

How are we to be with ourselves when difficult emotions and situations arrive? This sitting with the uncomfortable meditaiton supports us in exploring difficult emotions as they arise in the body as well as exploring the accompanying thoughts - wisdom arises when we move closer to the uncomfortable rather than instinctively resisting it.

As the wise Pema Chodron says: "We don’t have to attach so much meaning to what arises, and we also don’t have to identify with our emotions so strongly. All we need to do is allow ourselves to experience the energy—and in time it will move through you. It will. But we need to experience the emotion—not think about the emotion." This practice supports us in doing this.

Reviews

Her guiding along is interspersed with wonderful periods of stillness/za zen. She doesn’t spend the meditation talking and talking. Really good!

It was uncomfortable for me to sit with my feelings, but it was insightful and supportive 🙏

this is one of the most important meditations to me on this app. i keep returning to this when times get tough. perfectly balanced amounts of talking and silence and long enough to allow one to really feel! thank you 🙏💫

Great balance of guidance and silence. Gently directing the awareness to be in and with.thank you!

Thank you for giving me a quiet space to sit with my discomfort, instead of talking the entire time. I may revisit this often

This guidance was very helpful for me. The pace and balance of speaking with silence worked for me. I am doing IFS Inner work and have recently met a deeply buried exile. This guidance really helped me to find the calm center of mySelf. This supported my ability to continue reaching out to the distressed part. 🙏 Heather.

A thoughtful and compassionate meditation by a skilled teacher. Opened up a lot for me.

Thank you. Calm, non intrusive guidance. Will listen again

Calming meditation to accept what is, to not attach and give ourselves the space needed to gently move through our feelings.

Beautiful.. helped me be with my physical sensations that I have been trying to resist for such a long time.

This was difficult work for me, but I am so glad I stuck it through to the end. Thank you!

Very helpful container.

Thank you, a profoundly helpful session

I love this so much. It is such an intressting, intense process, i do it almost daily. The last couple of minutes are always very satisfying, open, calm. That makes it so easy to return, even if the difficult parts at the first two thirds of the meditation are ..ouch, and difficult :) . It is alway different. Thank you for sharing.

The only way out is through. I want to run, hide and push these uncomfortable emotions away. This meditation will help me if I can return to it again and again. Seeing and feeling emotions as energy is new for me.

Not easy to do. It is one I will return to. Such intense emotions felt. May I be open to what arises and let go. May I remember My thoughts are not real just energy. May I continue to heal my heart, body and mind. Thank you.

Excellent guidance! Thank you!

Exactly what I needed thank you! Really allowing the anxious feelings does help then dissipate 🙏

Excellent. Thank you.

Really helpful thank you. I had been wrestling with and pushing away emotions these past few days, trying to manage them & getting down and frustrated. I forgot to be aware, let them be and open up to them. Plenty of pauses and a lovely soothing calm voice. Thank you.