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Episode 11 Mary Slocum Episode 11 Mary Slocum

Feeling Tone—What Happens Before Emotion and Story

It is a startling truth that each time we come into contact with something through sight, sound, smell, touch, taste or thought a feeling tone registers. Feeling tone has only three flavors: Pleasant, unpleasant, and neither pleasant nor unpleasant (neither/nor). Feeling tone precedes both emotion and thought. It arises in us rather than being implicit in the thing with which we have come into contact. Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is feeling tone. Allowing feeling tone to be present with us without any need to do anything shows us that instead of reacting from habit, simply allowing the flow of experience liberates us from the struggle of emotion and story.

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