The other day, a familiar circumstance triggered a familiar, uncomfortable feeling inside my body. The sensations were connected to emotions of helplessness and despair, a story of unworthiness and unlovability. Instead of feeling all of this, my mind got busy trying to find a solution - what could be done to fix the situation so that I did not have to feel these feelings. I found myself stuck in a loop of mental projection trying to gain control over a situation that felt like it was out of my control - focusing on external circumstances. I was turning away from the emotions and uncomfortable sensations within. I was avoiding truly meeting myself.

In realizing this, the mental activity stopped for a moment. Long enough for me to take a deep breath and feel my feet on the ground. From there awareness fell down and in - dropping deeper than the stories I was telling myself, noticing the qualities of the sensations in the body. Pressure in the chest that was covering a sense of hollowness under the heart. As awareness fell into the hollowness something else revealed itself - a sense of warm, lush love that has no end. From this love with no end, the triggering event dissolved and love guided the connection that was desired to begin with.

I am curious, are there emotions and sensations that arise in you that feel uncomfortable, overwhelming, shameful or unbearable? How do you turn away from what is arising in you? What would it be like to stop and turn in to yourself instead - welcoming everything?

Join us to discover.

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