9) Acceptance - working with emotions
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- Published: Wednesday, 17 March 2021 12:34
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'... our archetypes, social mentalities and emotions are produces of millions of years of evolution and .. some of them can give us a very hard time indeed, It is important that we listen to our emotions carefully because they have important information for us. Sometimes we don't acknowledge anxiety, anger, frustration or upset because we're just keeping out heads down in order to survive or because we are frightened of these feelings. Learning to attend to and understand the meanings of our emotions and social mentalities can be extraordinary helpful ...'
(from 'The Compassionate Mind' by Paul Gilbert, p.416)
A useful mindfulness tool for working with emotions (good, bad & ugly!) is the RAIN practice - originally developed by Michelle MacDonald and made popular by Tara Brach, the following practice is mainly adapted from Diana Winston's 'Working with emotions 'RAINN’ - with a double N - practice from 'The Spectrum of Awareness' section of the 'Waking Up' app of Sam Harris. It combines mindfulness and compassionate imagery to help us recognise and gently work with difficult emotion.
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