Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

You feel like we can as human beings find peace if we have pain, sadness or darkness inside of us and we're always running away from it or numbing it?

No, there's no way.

I think you're just, it's almost like you're being hunted.

You know, like you're running, but like your emotions are hunting you.

They're trying to like find you in some way or another to get you

to acknowledge them and try to process them. How can you walk around with such a

heavy load? Fast forward a year later, like I stopped all the hard drugs, started changing my habits,

started eating a little bit better, started exercising, started examining my relationships,

and you know it was sad because I started noticing how shallow all of my

relationships were but when I started meditating and I was even more so had to

practice being with my emotions I went went through that, you know, it was a silent

tendon meditation course, first one I had ever done, and it was so difficult.

But at the end of it, I felt like, I felt like my mind had lost like 100 pounds.

Holy cow, you know?

And I was like, how do I, like, my mind feels better.

That's when it showed me, I was like, oh, you can actually heal yourself.

That's, I think the reason why I'm here now.

What do you think happens if we never process and acknowledge our emotions?

I think repetition. So you keep repeating, you keep sort of living through, going through the motion, and you end

up slowly just accumulating more and more density because you're just repeating the same reactive

habit patterns over and over again and we don't realize

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