How can you allow emotions to pass?

When an intense emotion rises, your body tightens up and the mind starts talking.

I need to get rid of this. Maybe I’m not doing it right.

You can meet that emotion in two ways:

• Suppressing pushes the feeling away, tries to control it, or judges it.
• Allowing lets the feeling be there, trusting that it will pass.

Suppression feels like you’re doing something. But that very effort to make the feeling go away is what keeps it there.

Instead, breathe deeply and relax the area around your heart. Don’t focus on the disturbance. Focus on relaxing the heart.

You’re not ignoring the feeling, you’re not pushing it away, and you’re not getting pulled into it. You are just watching.

This is witness consciousness.

The mind wants you to engage. Stay centered, and the energy releases on its own. Without your interference, the tension you thought you had to fix dissolves by itself.

What you resist persists. What you allow passes.