Working With Emotions

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Be Sad

Karen Maezen Miller looks at the important role of sadness in life.

Karen Maezen Miller



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A 3-Step Practice to Soothe Anxiety

Psychologist Chris Germer’s three-step self-compassion practice to soothe your anxiety with kindness. Join Chris Germer in our new online course <a href="https://learn.lionsroar.com/p/five-keys-to-the-complete-path-of-mindfulness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Five Keys to the Complete Path of Mindfulness.”</a>

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How to Feed Your Demons

Lama Tsultrim Allione teaches you an innovative technique, based on the Tibetan Buddhist principles of "Chöd," to turn your inner demons into friends.

Don’t Let Hatred Destroy Your Practice

His Holiness the Dalai Lama takes an in-depth look at how we can work with anger and hatred in our practice.

A Mindfulness Practice to Transform Anger into Love

This mindfulness practice from Thich Nhat Hanh will help you face your anger and transform it into the energies of love and understanding.

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How do I know whether to avoid or accept something that causes me distress?

In Buddhadharma's Ask the Teachers section, Sestuan Gaelyn Godwin, Larry Yang, and Dungse Jampal Norbu discuss relating to obstacles and difficult emotions.

Feeling Our Way to Awakening

The emotions we wish we didn’t have, that we’d like to just get over? Those feelings, say Jody Hojin Kimmel, are not obstacles on the path — they are the path.

The Healing Power of Feeling

“The way to find freedom from difficult emotions is to find it right within the feelings themselves,” writes Andy Karr. Here, he shares a practice for locating and working with difficult feelings in the subtle body to ultimately heal them.

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