Day One Hundred and Three

I am a counselor and I teach my clients about working with emotions. I ask them where they are and they say they are right in it and they want to get out of it if it is negative or stay in it if it is positive. When they want out they want to get way out, separate. I suggest that 'working' with an emotion is to see it, be aware of it, but not to be just in it. That is the place where we can stop fighting, feel what it truly is (anger and discomfort are often overlaying sadness for example) and make decisions. It is awareness of the feeling and being in the feeling.

I touch the stone. I am aware of the feeling that comes from contact. I am using my awareness to feel deeply whatever it is pointed to. This is concentration; awareness and feeling. Am I apart? Am I directly there? Concentration is difficult because I feel that I am becoming unraveled. Definition of who I am as that which flits from here to there is in some danger.