Happy Mind: Meditations from the Ancient World to Modernity

An Emotional Reset: I Belong (10 min)

11.18.2018 - By Zebediah RicePlay

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Often negative feelings like anxiety, sadness, fear (and so on) are generated because we all have a need to belong.Your mind isn’t set up to arrive at a stable, happy and peaceful state. It is designed to keep the body alive. The mechanism that we use to move the body are called e-motions. They are energy to move the body. You need to move the body to stay alive. One of the biggest reasons that caused death over the eons of our evolution was separation from our group or tribe or family. When these fears of not belonging to our group arise, our physiology shifts to support these feelings of fear or grief and anxiety or however this fear manifests within our bodies and minds. You can reassert our control of how you are feeling in many ways but today we are going directly at this fear of being cast out. Please note that when I use the word "belong" it is not in the sense of ownership. Rather, it is in the sense of membership.

This is a 10 minute version of the I Belong guided meditation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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