6 I Exploring difficult emotions
The Oxford Mindfulness Podcast
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Emotional Alarms - How to Get Rid of Them
Emotions have evolved as important signals that something is going on. For any animal, if there's danger, fight, frees, run. But because emotions are signals, they evolve to be temporary. When the danger is gone, the alarm is meant to switch off. If only we knew how to do the same with our minds. It's not at all surprising that emotional alarms entangle us. Although such tangles exhaust and deplete us, we come to accept them as normal and inescapable.
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