EXPERIMENT WHEN UNHAPPINESS AND NEGATIVITY ARISE
When feelings of unhappiness, discontent, or other forms of negativity arise within you, Eckhart invites us to “experiment” with these feelings as a regular practice.
What’s the way out when unhappiness arises? Step one is always to accept what is.
Eckhart suggests we ask ourselves, “What happens to unhappiness when I don’t mind being unhappy anymore?”
In addition, bring awareness to your thinking, which is closely tied to your emotional state.
Eckhart estimates that 90 percent of our unhappiness stems from unobserved thoughts. He reminds us that we are never the emotions or thoughts we experience; we are the space in which they are experienced.
Freedom comes through this recognition.
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