Pressed play that's already the half game of this deep resilience practice,
The cow shed meditation,
Difficult emotions may not disappear.
The way that we relate to them might change.
And for this I invite you to go with me through this cow shed meditation.
My name is Patrick Eeler.
I'm an intuition coach.
I'm a metabolization instructor and also an emotional intelligence advocate.
To start this practice find a position in which you feel comfortable and alert.
Check in with your body where you're feeling tension.
Maybe in the jar,
In your shoulders,
In your chest,
Your fingers.
Take a deep inhale and with the exhale try to ease the tension.
For the next couple of moments focus your attention on the moment the in-breath begins,
When it ends,
And the out-breath begins,
And the moment it ends.
And now switch attention and acknowledge the space between the in and out-breath,
And between the out-breath and the in-breath.
Let's switch gears to your emotional difficulty feet.
Find a situation with an emotion that you had a difficult time with within the last month.
Visualize the situation and what happened in the situation.
Recognize how uncomfortable it feels.
And before you act in any way or react,
Let me tell you about the cow shed metaphor.
Difficult emotions are similar like very bad smells.
Imagine you enter into the cow shed.
At the beginning of smelling the cow excretion,
It might smell intensely.
And if we try to run away,
Go out very quickly of it,
Which is a natural response to bad smells or difficult emotions,
We may lose the opportunity to get resilient.
If we stay within the cow shed,
After a couple of moments when the uncomfort of the shattering mind and the acknowledgement of the uncomfortable situation settles,
When the attention switches,
We may learn to stand within this smell of all the cow excretions.
Now if we leave the cow shed because it's smelling very much and we don't sit with it,
At least for a while,
At least till we have adapted to the smell and we go in again,
It starts with the same difficulty like in the beginning.
If you grew up on a farm like me,
You might know this experience.
If you haven't been in the cow shed for a couple of days,
It smells so bad,
It's so difficult to handle,
But after a couple of minutes,
Accepting it,
Surrendering,
It's much easier.
And I want you to bring this metaphor towards this difficult emotion.
Like to sit with it,
Acknowledge it and act wisely.
It's very easy when we have a difficult emotion to try to find very quickly a positive mindset.
This would be like leaving the cow shed without having adapted yet to the smell or using gratitude when difficult emotions arise.
This is like leaving the cow shed without getting resilient to the smell.
Using this identification and deep presence practices,
Maybe even to meditate away what is happening,
Is like leaving the cow shed and not becoming that resilient.
So just as a little pointer,
Imagine what would happen if you would sit just a couple of moments longer within the situation with acknowledging compassionately this difficult emotion that you are having,
Welcoming it as a friend.
Hey there,
We both having a hard time,
It isn't easy,
But let's learn to live with each other.
And I would like you to bring this little attitude of friendship towards difficult emotions,
Remembering this metaphor of the cow shed and try to apply it and see what works for you.
This practice is a part of a buffet of many different practices.
Nothing is all fit.
Try to see what works for you.
Try to find a metaphor that works for you.
I'm sure you will.
Thanks for pressing play.
You did a great job sitting with me in the cow shed.
