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22 - Dealing With Difficult Emotions

Secular Buddhism

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The Thinking Mind Versus the Observing Mind

"I am not my emotions," he says. "It's one thing to think I am angry and another thing to observe, I am experiencing anger." He describes the concept of the thinking mind versus the observing mind in acceptance and commitment therapy. The idea is that we spend significant portions of our life on the emotional horse which just takes us.

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