Letting Go of Painful Emotions

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

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🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we explore a simple question you can use to help let go of difficult emotions that may no longer be serving you in a positive way.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.
0:07.0	I'm your host, Corey Muscarra, and in today's episode we're going to talk about holding on and letting go of emotions.
0:18.0	More to come on that in a moment.
0:20.0	First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay. Okay, so this episode is going to be about a simple question you can ask yourself in relationship to different emotional experiences you might be having
0:58.9	where you may feel stuck or attached to having a certain emotion or being caught in an emotion.
1:08.4	And the question we're going to explore that you can explore is how is it serving me to hold on to this emotion?
1:19.1	How is it serving me to hold on to this emotion. Now this is a particularly powerful question to ask
1:28.6	with difficult emotions, things like anger,
1:33.2	sadness, even grief.
1:37.6	These are experiences that often we can feel the discomfort of and we may cognitively,
1:47.6	consciously feel like, yeah, I don't want to be holding on to this emotion anymore. I don't like what it's doing to me. I don't like the way it makes
1:57.0	me feel and causes me to react to other people. And yet there might be something subconsciously anchoring us to holding on to that emotion or
2:08.0	staying in the experience of it might be a better way to put it. Now some of these negative emotions start and
2:17.8	sustain for periods of time for good reason. They might be important. They might be an appropriate response to an acute circumstance.
2:30.0	Or you may just simply find that the emotion you're experiencing is helping you in some way,
2:36.3	even though it's uncomfortable, it might be helping you take action.
2:40.8	I think of anger as one of those emotions that is a bit controversial, especially in the
2:47.7	meditation space of its utility and necessity, but an argument can be made that it can prompt a certain kind of action in the world that could then be more aligned with one's heart.
3:02.0	And so those are scenarios where you might ask that question,
3:06.0	how is it serving me to hold on to this emotion
3:08.0	or to be in this emotion,
3:10.0	and you might get a very to be in that experience.
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