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Once we notice an unpleasant feeling, focus as best we can on how
we experience it IN THE BODY (versus endlessly thinking about it) .
- "breathing with". We use the skills we develop in working with
physical discomfort or pain, applying them to emotional discomfort.
Keep in mind: Mindfulness is not about getting rid of anything but
provides a way to be with IT without struggle, in each moment, as if
with a sick (inner) child that needs to be held & reassured. The will
still be pain, but more bearable and with less intense suffering.
Thoughts: let them float buy or each time label them as "thinking" or
give them a name (e.g. "anxious mind", "inner critic"), and go back to
the practice (non-attachment helps intentionally disengaging from
being carried away by the automatic negative thought stream, "what's
wrong with me" etc.). Mindfulness of hearing & thinking (like images
projected on a screen at the movies).
Jade: "simply staying with [thoughts] might be less frightening and
healthier than (spiralling off into) analyzing it".
Awareness of emotions by simply sitting- or breathing with
meditation.

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