Did you know you can change how you feel?
I often forget that my feelings and reactions are practiced responses. A meditation technique called Tonglen is useful for playing with this.
The instructions are simple: breathe in what you resist, and breathe out what you desire.
Each time you breathe in, focus on the unpleasantness, the fear, the anger, or whatever. Each time you breathe out, give to the world what you seek for yourself ⏤ success, calmness, compassion, love.
You’ll notice your present feelings impacted immediately. With practice, you start to rewire the reactions which generate the contractive experiences in the first place.
And with different feelings, come different actions…
Here’s a longer write up I did on Tonglen.