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With Clare Downham
Many high-achieving people feel at the mercy of their emotions, working hard to manage or control them yet finding only more stress and exhaustion. What if peace is not something to achieve, but something already here? This course offers a fresh understanding of how emotions are created and why you don’t need to treat them as problems, opening the door to greater freedom, calm, and clarity. Across ten lessons, you’ll explore how emotions naturally rise and fall, why control often backfires, and how to relate to feelings as signals rather than flaws. You’ll discover the quiet wisdom that sits beneath emotional noise, and how letting go creates space for resilience and presence. This course is especially supportive if you feel caught in cycles of stress, overwhelm, or burnout, or if you find yourself harshly judging your own emotional experience. It may not be for you if you are seeking quick-fix techniques or step-by-step strategies, as the focus here is on a deeper shift in understanding. The reflections are grounded in the Three Principles understanding: a simple way of seeing how mind, consciousness, and thought shape all human experience. You’ll be invited to consider your own life gently, without pressure, and to notice how insight emerges naturally. The invitation is not to manage yourself better, but to see differently and in seeing differently, to live with more lightness, clarity, and peace.
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10 Days
169 students
4.9 stars
7 min / day
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English
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