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70 - Buddhist Practice: Dealing with Intrusive Thoughts and Emotions
70 - Buddhist Practice: Dealing with Intrusive Thoughts and Emotions
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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Aug 18, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
“Intrusive” thoughts and emotions arise repeatedly with enough intensity for them to be disturbing or distracting, even though they aren’t objectively relevant or helpful as they’re arising. In this episode I describe how to use Buddhist practice to reduce the intrusiveness of irrelevant or unhelpful thoughts and emotions by decreasing our identification with the content of our experience and increasing our identification with our natural, spacious awareness.
Released:
Aug 18, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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