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To read additional quotes from Pema Chodron’s book, Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears, CLICK HERE. Maybe, just maybe I can begin to let it be, to let it go. Maybe, just maybe-and with a lot of practice-I can begin to stop stoking the fire of reactivity and defensiveness. If I am able to give my emotions enough space to breathe, to exist without warring against them, then maybe I can short-circuit the pattern of feeding the flames of that particular emotion. After that we have to revive the emotion to keep it going again.” I find a great deal of solace in that knowledge. Pema Chödrön references Jill Bolte Taylor’s book My Stroke of Insight, which “points to scientific evidence showing that the life span of any particular emotion is only one and a half minutes. I want to be able to accept all of my emotions as impermanent energy that is passing through me.

However, Pema Chödrön expresses what I hope to work towards. Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an opening pathway to awakening.” – Pema ChödrönĮasier said than done, of course. In this way, anything we experience becomes the perfect opportunity for touching our basic goodness, the perfect support for remaining open and receptive to the dynamic energy of life…. “Instead, we can acknowledge the powerful energy of our fear, of our rage-the energy of anything at all that we may feel-as the natural movement of life, and become intimate with it, abide with it, without repressing, without acting out, without letting it destroy us or anyone else. There is much to gain if we can sit, stay, listen, learn. Yet, all emotions are messengers from our heart. Happiness and joy is more comfortable than sadness and grief. To not try to rush past what you’re feeling, to push away uncomfortable feelings to attempt to feel “better.” We tend to label emotions as “good” or “bad” based on how comfortable we feel when experiencing them. It’s also an opportunity stay with yourself. It’s a wonderful reminder of the power of the breath, of the connection to the present, of the connection to the self. Abiding with our own energy is the ultimate nonaggression, the ultimate maitri.” Staying present with our own energy allows it to keep flowing and move on. Confusion only begins when we can’t abide with the intensity of the energy and therefore spin off. It’s a way of working with our negativity that appreciates that the negative energy per se is not the problem. All we are doing is breathing in and experiencing what’s happening, then breathing out as we continue to experience what’s happening. It sounds dramatic, but really it’s very simple and direct. In the process of doing this, we are transmuting hard, reactive, rejecting energy into basic warmth and openness. We touch the experience, feeling it in the body if that helps, and we breathe it in. “Breathing in and leaning in are very much the same.

The exhale focuses on giving the sensation some space, relaxing any tension you’re carrying. The inhale focuses on keeping the feeling inside, giving it attention and warmth. It’s about staying with the emotion or feeling and breathing in to it. Pema Chödrön speaks of a style of meditation practice called compassionate abiding. I’m feeling defensive, reactive, and quick to anger. Lately, I’ve been feeling a lot of strong emotions. I devoured it in about 72 hours, before bed, at restaurants, at coffee shops and finished it finally on a bus from Chiang Mai to Pai, Thailand. And this book truly did come to me at precisely the right time. It was with eagerness that I picked up my first Pema Chödrön book. I’ve heard of Pema Chödrön’s name before, referenced in other books, or mentioned here and there in ways I just can’t place. It’s easily digestible, short in length and casual in tone. It is in no way, shape, or form dense or obtuse. Pema Chödrön’s book, Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears, came to me exactly when I needed it.

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