The Importance of Returning to the Body

For those of you listening in, Cebra and Bache, he had his hands on his head is that the more there's a strong emotion and then the mental state is aversion and your energy and attention goes right up there to where that reactivity is./nAnd you lose the presence of really inhabiting the full sensory experience. So yeah, so the idea is to keep coming back down, the throat, the chest, the belly, that's where the vagal nerve, which is where all the emotions run through, those are the three main centers where it takes courage, but to keep coming back there, you then you discover again the awake kind awareness that's there./nAnd I found for myself over and over that when I can stay with the felt sense in the body, there's a natural tenderness that opens because it becomes clear that it's unpleasant and it's difficult. And yet there's a tender response to that. And that's another way that the compassion awakens.