How to Welcome All the Emotions in a Party

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Jeff Warren, a meditation teacher and founder of the Consciousness Explorers Club, describes dread as "the idea that all of this exists kind of underneath and nobody can see it" Today's challenge is to turn difficult emotions like dread into characters. Spend a minute or two just drawing that dread. You can make it as simple or as complex as you want. Pen, pencil, Sharpie, crayon, magic marker, notebook paper. A napkin will work. Stick figures are very welcome. That's it. Tell us what happened when you drew your dread by voice memoing at dreadproject.com. Check tomorrow for our next challenge where we look at death on I have those

Yesterday we journaled about our dread. Today we’re going to see what happens when we express the overwhelming feeling of dread, without words. It’s Day Two of The Dread Project Challenge, a five-day series that investigates an emotion so many of us are struggling with lately – from our dread of the next Zoom meeting to worries that have life-and-death stakes. Each day of the challenge, we tackle dread in a different way, and offer you a fun exercise for feeling a little better, even when you’re anticipating the worst.

In this episode, we’ll talk with Clinical Art Therapist Naomi Cohen-Thompson and Meditation Teacher & Writer Jeff Warren about how visualizing, and sometimes even drawing, can help us accept the stuff that scares us.

Check out dreadproject.com for more information about The Dread Project and daily prompts for The Dread Project Challenge. Please share how this Dread Project Challenge, “Dread Without Words,” went for you by sending us a voice memo at morethanafeeling@tenpercent.com.

Sign up for the Dread Project Listener Challenge here: dreadproject.com. If you’re seeing this after the challenge has begun, don’t worry! You can sign up and participate anytime.

For more information about More Than A Feeling, The Dread Project, and today’s guests, check out our show notes at: www.tenpercent.com/mtaf-podcast-episodes/dread-without-words. And follow us on Twitter at @podfeelings.

And if digging into dread is very difficult or intense for you, some additional resources that could help are listed below.

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Try the Ten Percent Happier app for free for thirty days by visiting tenpercent.com/more and check out Jeff Warren’s Welcome to the Party meditation.
Dare App - free app to help with anxious moments

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