Maria J
@lalunareja
Maria J
@lalunareja
Funny Musici - Gelli Haha
Nothing determines what real suffering is except your mind; there is no other test.
Emotional regulation is the process of experiencing an emotion, allowing the sensations to pass through the body (rather than trying to distract oneself with, say, drugs or alcohol or an iPhone or food), identifying it (‘I am angry right now’ or ‘I am sad’), and breathing through it until it eventually passes. The practise of emotional regulation e
... See moreThe way to move past an emotion is to first allow yourself to fully feel it.
Only then can you let it go.
Simple to understand. But hard to do.
Much of our mind, and most of our culture, is designed to distract from feeling of emotions (h/t Alice Miller)