A deep dive into actually FEELING emotion as part of the process of awakening.

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Topics & Timecodes: 

00:00 Intro

02:26 Consciousness as a movie screen vs. the story of our lives displayed on the screen

09:24 Why the sense of separation returning can make things feel worse after an experience of expansive presence

14:58 Awakening and repressed emotion, the shedding of inauthenticity

20:18 How and when to investigate the source of emotions

22:38 Untangling thought from emotion, dealing with habitual fixations, thought storms

27:55 Resistance to emotion vs. surrender and acceptance

33:00 The effect of meditation retreat on emotion

35:48 The standing wave of thought identification and the pandemic of emotional repression

42:03 Zubin’s post retreat experience of thought and emotion

44:40 The effect since our first shows on awakening, the way out of suffering

48:14 Wrapping up

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