How does it feel inside your body when an emotion arises? How would you describe how it feels? What’s your relationship to emotions? Are there some emotions that you push away? Are there some emotions that arise habitually in reaction to your experience?

This week, we explore mindfulness and emotions. Getting to know how emotions manifest in us, and how we react or respond emotionally is a rich and useful exploration. Mindfulness allows us to recognize, allow, and investigate our emotions. When we are mindful, we can be with our emotions, even difficult emotions, without getting caught up in them or pushing them away. Mindfulness allows us to change our relationship with emotions and to change our habits.