The thing about self-awareness is that you can’t really sleepwalk your way through it. You can try. But it doesn’t work. Awareness requires you to wake up. You have to ask the difficult questions and grapple with those aspects of yourself that you don’t like.
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Spiritual teachers often talk about the importance of being with emotions. This is hard because we usually repress and avoid difficult emotions. Sometimes for years. Also, the physical discomfort of strong negative emotion can be unbearable. Also, we don’t really see the value in feeling it. But awareness and feeling is the way to move past these difficult emotions.
One way to cultivate more emotional awareness is to ask: What’s the texture of this emotion?
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