Fear and anxiety are not emotions, they are suffering, they are the result of emotions.
Physical work with emotions
Handshake practice
Components of emotion:
- sensation in the body
- voices/story in the mind
- images in the mind
- aversion/fear of the emotion - i.e. panic of the panic
- once you let go of the aversion to/fear of the emotion, the emotion can be very exciting to look at
Energetic qualities of emotions
Can we find energetic qualities of the emotions in our body?
anger - heat, fire, wind, earth?
sadness
Readings
- Brilliant Emotions by Paul Cashman — read book review