Welcoming our feelings

The more we allow our feelings to be and welcome them, especially when it’s sadness, frustration, anger and so, the quicker they subside and pass.

When we resist and fight against our feelings they become energised, they grow and we become them. They stay and we suffer.

All things in life are there for a reason, welcome them all.

Resistance is the root of pain

It’s our resistance to things that cause the pain.

Even more so when we are aware of something, we know that’s not what we want and then we get angry about being angry, or frustrated about being frustrated, or sad that we are sad and so on. We fight the reaction, we resist the feelings, we try to squash our emotions.

If we give space for our feelings, thoughts, emotions and let them be, just observing and letting it be there, then there is no resistance, no fight and they dissolve without more emotion, thought or reaction.