This chapter discusses the importance of recognizing and allowing oneself to feel emotions. It explores how suppressing emotions can lead to passive aggression or aggression, and how these suppressed emotions can accumulate over time. The chapter also delves into the question of how to learn to recognize the physiological signs of emotions and suggests a practice of pausing and being with the sensations until they pass.
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