When you experience challenging feelings of any kind, inquiring or asking questions that are specifically aimed to discover what the feeling is will help you develop the self-awareness necessary to know what your pain, loss, or suffering is. After you discover the precise kind of challenge you're facing, this podcast will help you remember to ask yourself to find the place within you that desires to move toward a state of well-being, peace, or relief—it's a practice that can help you to look within for the guidance that you long to find. It will also encourage you to embrace the aspects of your life that are most challenging as opportunities for personal growth. By fully sensing the emotional experience, you can better relate to what is aching within you and not be misled by intellectual ideas and concepts.

Asking the right questions implies that you place real value on this process and enable you to move toward the intention to care for yourself regardless of how a difficult emotion makes you feel. It is important to remember that inquiry is a process, not a destination. By remaining focused on your commitment to exploring your most challenging emotions and questioning what will most help, you will give yourself the best opportunity to manage any form of suffering with self-compassion and self-care. Developing essential emotional intelligence is an art that is illuminated in this episode.

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