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Move Beyond Blame with Radical Responsibility with Fleet Maull • 238

Mind Love • Modern Mindfulness to Think, Feel, and Live Well

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How Do Our Emotions Actually Arise?

Most of us assume that our emotions, our feelings, are caused by other people's situations outside of ourselves. But we need to really reflect on that more deeply. They actually arise based on our perception of our needs being met or not. We all have the same universal human needs - for food, warm shelter, for love and connection, relationship or respect. So when your needs are be met, how do you feel? Warm and fuzzy. When they're threatened or thwarted in some way, then how do you start feeling? Frustrated, angry, upset, envious, jealous, hateful. The whole range of challenge, not so helpful emotions. Nothing wrong with them. It just

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