 Emotions and Acceptance
Thanks for the link to your article. This is how I see it. In my daily life I may react or respond to someone or something. Emotion arises. There are physiological changes in my body. In the past I labelled the sensations in my body as good or bad. I developed both craving and aversion. Even the emotions I didn't like I would repeat scenarios in which I would have those feelings again and again. Why? I believe that I was addicted to the sensations in my body. Did I have control over them? No, not once these chemical changes were happening. Now through many years of meditation I am observing sensations more and more in my body. I may still have an emotional charge around something or someone but now instead of what I would call past sabotaging behaviour I stay present with these sensations as they flood my body. They are chemical reactions after all and rather than contracting against them I accept and allow them to be there as they are. Sooner or later these sensations change without my adding to them to create more emotional charge through my thoughts, stories and dramas.
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