Gently Facing Unpleasant Emotions

Try listening to this meditation when you need some guided support to gently face your emotions so that your emotions can give you wisdom and insight instead of reactive energy.

Experiencing unpleasant emotions is not what we would typically call “fun” or enjoyable. However, unpleasant emotions, typically like anger, sadness, frustration, or loss are part of our human experience. We can’t experience the pleasant emotions of life if there are also not unpleasant emotions. The key to being with unpleasant emotions is having the courage to gentle face them, name them, and tame them without expectations. Once we can gently name, acknowledge and accept the emotion, we can then have more clarity and discernment to take wise action in alignment with our values.