How to Deal With Negative Emotions: Unraveling Our Mental Stories

Mindah-Lee Kumar Uncategorized coping with emotion, deal negative emotions, dealing with negative emotions, dealing with negative feelings, feeling frustrated and angry, freedom from feelings, how to deal with negative emotions, how to deal with negative feelings, mental stories, negative emotions

There is a meditation technique called ‘tracing back the thought’. When we apply it to our everyday life it means that when we notice our mind has been caught up in a story we try to slowly go back through the mental events to see how it has resulted in the current chaos in our mind.

For example, the other day I was feeling generally annoyed and irritated with everyone around me. They hadn’t done anything wrong, and it wasn’t that I had gotten out of the wrong side of the bed. I sat at my computer wondering where all this frustration had come from. I thought to myself, before I got to work, I didn’t feel happy. When I was driving in my car, I didn’t feel happy. When I left home I was feeling happy. So what was I doing in the car?
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