Oh man, yeah, that's the MOST challenging part of meditation. It takes years to master that, if ever (encouraging, no?).
I will say that the moment we start to identify with the emotion, almost as if it's sticky and attaches to our heart and we carry it around and then let it be the reason why we're unkind or short tempered or just generally down... That's suffering, which is what meditation is helping us avoid.
I talk a great game but I struggle seriously with not being distracted during even very brief periods of meditation. I think. A lot. A whole lot.
That feeling of betrayal, and insignificance you must have been feeling earlier today, that's a tough one to just observe like a passing car. That's the kind of thing you have to let envelop you, fill you and wash over you... For me this is more than just a few moments. I need to feel it, honor it and let it out. It's a struggle to set myself right again and to get the ache out of my solar plexus. Often I need to journal, talk to someone who will listen but won't let me wallow... And when there is no one I seek out maybell, labug, uR, you, 25, Claire, Calibri... Everyone! Lol
Through meditation, I'm slowly learning how to comfort and pep talk myself with zero delusions of grandeur or covering up of the facts just to make myself feel better.
It's hard stuff, card. Hard stuff, especially given the painful ness we're facing these days, but I hope to have meditation as a foundation in the life I live down the road... It's a characteristic I want in the future Ss, as tedious as it is sometimes.
