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Episode 4026:
David Cain explores how our attempts to avoid uncomfortable emotions like embarrassment, uncertainty, and boredom often give those feelings more power over our lives. By learning to experience difficult emotions directly, rather than resisting or overanalyzing them, we become more resilient, emotionally free, and less controlled by fear-driven habits.
Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.raptitude.com/2017/02/how-to-keep-emotions-from-running-your-life/
Quotes to ponder:
“You experiment, a bit at a time, with letting yourself feel the things you’re afraid to feel, and watch them lose their power over you.”
“Avoidance has a way of empowering the thing you’re avoiding.”
“When you stop trying to ban certain feelings from your experience, they tend to pass through relatively easily, in a matter of minutes or even seconds, and nothing is harmed.”
Episode references:
Meditation: https://www.mindful.org/how-to-meditate/
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