ACCEPTING OUR EMOTIONS
We may contemplate balance and harmony and living like "our lives depended on it" , as if this moment could be our last. Living in the present as if nothing were to come after this moment. This does not mean living a hedonistic life: that is not in alignment with our true values. It does not mean repressing our feelings, that could be dishonest. What it can mean is feeling what we are feeling without the "second arrow" of negative self judgement. It can mean feeling what ever we are feeling -- to the fullest.
Living life of being in the present is neither "good" nor "bad"; it is conscious and present. Be who you are , right now, in this moment. And breathe.
Not Judging our Emotions
There isn’t any such thing as a negative emotion. There are negative things that we do with our emotions, but our emotions themselves are neither negative nor positive.
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Kyczy Hawk is the author of Yoga and the Twelve Step Path and founder of S.O.A.R.(tm) Success Over Addiction and Relapse. She offers training on line and teaches in person in Treatment Centers, and Jail. She also leads Y12SR classes at Willow Glen Yoga in the Silicon Valley area of California.
www.yogarecovery.com
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