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Ep. 143 – Transforming Fear
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
How to Be With a Difficult Emotion
Being open to experiencing difficult emotions is crucial for personal growth and self-awareness. Rather than avoiding unpleasant feelings, embracing them can lead to profound insights and a deeper understanding of oneself. Many individuals and society as a whole often engage in activities to escape feeling certain emotions like boredom, sadness, or loneliness. Learning to sit quietly with one's emotions without being defensive can be transformative. Embracing emotions, such as anger or unworthiness, is compared to welcoming children in Halloween costumes - seeing beyond the disguise to the true nature of the emotion.
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