“The Art of Living”

How to experience emotions/feelings?

Living is living, not expressing your anger and dissatisfaction to third parties (this is just reactive behavior).

🍀 “Observation and Living”

In the article above, I tried to reveal this essential therapeutic position, without which there will be no experience of emotions.

Briefly and to the essence of this process :

The cleanest way to deal with unpleasant experiences is to redirect attention from third parties/external objects to emotions:

“When it’s like this, how do I feel?”, and then to the sensations in the body: “When there are these feelings, how do I feel them in my body?”

And observing these sensations in the body. ✅

Then there may be three situations :

1. The experiences are weak — then it would be better to add a bodily stimulus, but it’s even better to work with the metaphor of the elements.

2. The experiences are sufficient — then we simply observe them on the basis of our kindness and attentiveness to our experience.

3. The experiences are strong — then you need to add any available method for concentration, for example, breathing.

Three living-forming factors :

1. Feelings are felt, sensations are felt, and do not think about them, do not try to understand, do not look for reasons (and guilt)…