Holding Emotions

For many people, emotions are a central aspect of life, how they navigate the world, understand the world, and understand themselves. If you go back to the ancient world of the Buddha and try to find an equivalent in his language for the English word emotion, you’ll have a hard time finding an equivalent.

The Buddha looks at our experience through these four different perspectives. The perspective of our bodies, awareness of the body, the physical experience; mindfulness of feelings, which in psychology the felt sense is the basis for emotion.