Sitting with uncomfortable emotions

True healing is not about pushing away pain or pretending that everything is okay. It's about giving yourself permission to truly feel - to sit with your emotions, no matter how uncomfortable they may be. Allow yourself to cry, to be angry, to grieve - whatever your heart needs. These emotions are not a sign of weakness, but a powerful expression of your humanity. When you allow yourself to feel, you honour your experiences and give your emotions the space they need to be acknowledged…

Any time there is a transition from being on a break from work back to the everyday routine, it is a struggle. However, this past transition from winter break to teaching in January seemed a little tougher than usual. My students seemed off, I seemed off, and I had to plan for a sub day in the middl

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I masked my avoidance pretending it was mindfulness. If I felt a negative emotion, I worked hard to shift away from it to experience something more pleasant. I believed if I was experiencing negative states, I didn’t have much mastery of my own mind. ⁣ ⁣ It wasn’t until recently that I learned the power of negative emotions and learning to sit with being uncomfortable. By allowing myself to fully experience negative states, they have less power than when I was avoiding them ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣…

The process of sitting still and being with our emotions can be extremely uncomfortable. Many of us choose to either avoid our feelings or instantly react to them without thinking, so it can be quite overwhelming in our meditation practice when we’re put in a position to just observe them as they ar

We find our power as we sit with big feelings. We find our power as we sit with the uncomfortable feelings of those we love. We find enormous strength when we no longer try to change what is. / - Kathy Overman