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working with emotions when you have a
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chronic illness now this is a really
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important topic and there's lots of
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different aspects to it first I'd like
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to say if you can get a counselor if you
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can afford it and if you can find
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someone who's a really good fit then
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that is definitely a good thing to do
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but beyond that there's lots of kind of
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mindfulness meditation based practices
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which can really help with this and one
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which I use myself and there's lots of
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different variations of it but it all
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kind of comes down to the same thing is
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to notice the emotions as they reside in
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your body body okay so emotions when
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they're strong they have a place in your
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body it might be in your chest it might
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be in your heart might be in your face
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but there's definitely a physical
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location where that emotion is kind of
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manifesting it could be some fear it
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could be some grief it could be some
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anger and what you do in these various
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practices is you basically just rest
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your mind on those Sensations so you
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find the area in your body where you're
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feeling most uncomfortable you slow down
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your mind slow down your breathing get
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into a good posture and then just spend
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some time hanging out with the emotions
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as they present themselves to your
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awareness and a good analogy for this a
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good metaphor is like a hen sitting on
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an egg and one of the reasons that's a
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good metaphor is because the hen is
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bringing warmth okay so in that warmth
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of that awareness resting on this
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uncomfortable feeling you're not trying
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to change it you're not trying to push
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it away but you're simply resting with
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it and allowing your good intention your
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compassion your kindness to yourself
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just to kind of hold it and nurture it
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and you will probably find that after a
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few minutes of doing this that the
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intensity of the emotion will have
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diminished and if you like you can then
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move on to a different place in your
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body where you've got emotions present
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it's a really good idea to get into this
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practice to get familiar with it to get
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to the point where as and when something
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difficult comes up you can quite quickly
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get into the space where you're kind of
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nursing or nurturing yourself through it
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it's also a good idea to practice even
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on the days when there isn't a
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particularly strong emotion this is by
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no means essential but it's a good habit
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to get into and then you may notice
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there's some quite subtle emotions that
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maybe could with the right triggers kind
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of blow up into something a bit more
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stronger a bit more uncomfortable but
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you kind of nip them in the bud in the
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sense of hanging out with them giving
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them that kind of loving presence and
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allowing them to to just kind of be to
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exist and as and when they're ready to
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let go so that's a kind of sematic
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approach to working with emotions and
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this is one that I personally find very
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very helpful thanks for watching
