Hannah Boettcher on the mental health challenges that come with trying to have a big impact
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How to Accept Emotional Discomfort
The attitude of experiential acceptance is, well, you can train this meditatively, where you are like in a formal seated session, looking in at emotional discomfort and welcoming it with curiosity and openness. You can also coach yourself in this attitude a little bit more informally. Like let's say that I'm like responding to an email that feels aversive. I might say like, okay, noticing an urge to reread this thing again. Yep, I hear that. My mind is saying this could be really stressful depending on how they respond. And then there's this this attitude of like, I can be with this, right? So welcoming the feelings, like there's room enough
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