The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So hello and today I will I begin the third week of this introduction to mindfulness meditation.

With this week focusing a mindfulness of emotions.

Emotions are an important part of our life. And mindfulness meditation is meant to offer,

have a lot of respect for our emotions.

And as I've often said that I love the word respect as a synonym for mindfulness

because the Latin roots of it could be understood as to see again,

to give a second look to what's happening.

So to respect emotions is to give it it really take a look at it second.

Don't just take it at the first impression but take a second look what's happening here.

So one of the principles of practicing mindfulness

of emotions and mindfulness meditation is in fact to have a deep respect for emotions.

That emotions in and of themselves are significant movements within us.

They are things which we are moved by something.

And we want to allow the movement without judgment,

but also without participating, either reactively, pushing it away or judging it negatively or or participating in it by leaning into it and telling ourselves stories that perpetuate it and keep it going.

And I'm fond of the idea that the word emotion has the word motion in it and the Latin prefix E means out.

Emotions are things that are moving out.

They represent that we've been touched, we've been moved in some way.

And in and of itself, it represents our capacity to be moved, to be involved, to

be involved in a way that's, to this world, with ourselves,

that something deep gets elicited, something deep

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