Gil Fronsdal offers Buddhist wisdom on relating skillfully to our emotions and seeing them as messengers of our inner worlds.

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In this talk, Gil Fronsdal lectures about:

Identifying emotions without getting lost in the story
The necessity and benefits of feeling pain
Knowing what's happening as it's happening
How most of us are driven by our desires and aversions
Simply knowing and how free our knowing can be
Making room for our experiences
How our emotions let us know what we should pay attention to
Learning how our emotions live in the intelligent system of our body
How reactivity blocks us from processing emotions
Being in our body and allowing processes to unfold

“One of the primary functions of emotions is to let us know something is important. They’re knocking on the door of our capacity to know. They are not accidents, they’re not incidental, they’re not annoyances, they’re not unfortunate. They’re actually a very important form of which your inner life is presenting itself to you.” – Gil Fronsdal

This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

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