Ep. 181 - Mindfulness Of Emotions With Buddhist Teacher, Gil Fronsdal

Gil Fronsdal offers Buddhist wisdom on relating skillfully to our emotions and seeing them as messengers of our inner worlds. In this talk, Gil Fronsdal lectures about: Identifying emotions without getting lost in the story The necessity and benefits of feeling pain Knowing what's happening as it's happening How most of us are driven by our desires and aversions Simply knowing and how free our knowing can be Making room for our experiences How our emotions let us know what we should pay attention to Learning how our emotions live in the intelligent system of our body How reactivity blocks us from processing emotions Being in our body and allowing processes to unfold “One of the primary functions of emotions is to let us know something is important. They’re knocking on the door of our capacity to know. They are not accidents, they’re not incidental, they’re not annoyances, they’re not unfortunate. They’re actually a very important form of which your inner life is presenting itself to you.” – Gil Fronsdal This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed