Feel what you’re feeling

In class this week:

·        Find where emotions live in your body – “What is the path of an emotion inside my body?”, “What are the sensitive points in my body that respond to different emotions?”

·        Exploring opposites

Homework:

Emotion map - where do you feel emotions in your body - what do they feel like?

Also, you can repeat the meditation from class as many times as you’d like (linked below) or repeat the 10 min body scan from week 2 or one of the practices from week 1.

Week 3 written info HERE.

And the practice from class tonight HERE

The Way It Is By Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Over and over we break
open, we break and
we break and we open.
For a while, we try to fix
the vessel—as if
to be broken is bad.
As if with glue and tape
and a steady hand we
might bring things to perfect
again. As if they were ever
perfect. As if to be broken is not
also perfect. As if to be open
is not the path toward joy.

The vase that’s been shattered
and cracked will never
hold water. Eventually
it will leak. And at some
point, perhaps, we decide
that we’re done with picking
our flowers anyway, and no
longer need a place to contain them
We watch them grow just
as wildflowers do—unfenced,
unmanaged, blossoming only
when they’re ready—and my god,
how beautiful they are amidst
the mounting pile of shards.