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4 I Restoring balance

The Oxford Mindfulness Podcast

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Feeling Tone and Emotions

Feeling tone is the sense of pleasantness and unpleasantness that arises in a moment. We don't need to know why it's come up, but we can register its tenality as best we can. This allows us to make a choice about how to respond next time. If you are overwhelmed by grief or sorrow right now, or life is very turbulent, when things are difficult, let yourself off the hook if you need to. Some one asked about how feeling tone is related to emotions. So here we aren't not noting a feeling tone in the sense of a fully grown emotion such as sadness or excitement, worry or relaxation. But the simpler sense of positivity or negativity of a

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