Eat These Things: The Gifts that Lie Hidden within Difficult Emotions

By: Yuichi Handa

In some meditation circles, it’s common to hear the refrain, “Just sit with your feelings.” What’s often left unsaid is how each emotion has its own story to tell. In this short book, I examine the emotional and mental state of confusion and present a map of the terrain you’ll likely traverse when you eventually do sit with it and process it, that is, eat it.

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Book Description

Discover how each difficult emotion has its own story to tell you--

In some self-help and meditation circles, it's common to hear the refrain, "Just sit with your feelings." What's often left unsaid is how each emotion has its own signature movement or "story to tell." In other words, sitting with confusion is different from sitting with anger, which is different from sitting with loneliness, and so on. Not only does each emotion have its own distinct narrative and manner of unraveling, but each has its own unique gift to impart to those who are patient enough to sit through the unfolding.

In each of these short books, I focus in on a specific emotional and mental state and present a map of the terrain you'll likely traverse when you eventually do sit with and process that particular emotion at hand.

My hope is that you'll find inspiration and value to sit with and to digest—that is, to "eat"—these difficult emotional and mental states as they arise and offer their hidden and sometimes surprising gifts.

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