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Originally Posted by skydust  its a game of observing. when you do this, you realise its just a feeling, it comes as from nowhere, and dissapears into nowhere when it goes away. it is not you. you disedintify from it. its just there, it doesnt take over you anymore. it becomes a sensation. with practice, you can snap out of any emotion in the present.
its also ok to not be able to snap out of it, its best to just observe in the beginning, you are not trying to change anything or stop being whatever you are feeling, that happens by itself when you observe it. |
Thanks for that helpful bit of information.
When I experience anger it is easy to forget that it is just a feeling being experienced in the body to an external situation and is not actually the
real me.
I really like the idea of observing the reaction as it happens rather than to the actual event (or person!) that is causing it and then disidentifying from it.