Take time to meditate on your emotions. The worse thing you can do (and what is often taught) is to try to avoid or argue with your thoughts, beliefs and emotions. The Buddha’s path of mindfulness is about liberation from the compulsive push-pull of thoughts rather than aversion to thoughts. You need to meditate on thoughts (cittanupassana vipassana) in order to develop freedom from thoughts. The best way to break fee from thoughts (and the grip of the past) is to welcome the thoughts and sit with them. In this way you learn how to be present with thoughts without becoming overwhelmed by them and identified with them.
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