How to Sit With Difficult Feelings - Guided Meditation with Zen Master Henry Shukman #637

Hey, guys. How are you doing? Hope you're having a good week so far. My name is doctor Rangan Chatterjee, and this is my podcast, Feel Better, Live More. Today is another short meditation from the wonderful Henry Shookman to give you a flavor of what meditation is and what it can actually feel like. Now all throughout March, my podcast community has been building a simple daily meditation habit together. So far, over 22,000 people have joined this free thirty day challenge from a 178 different countries, which is absolutely incredible. And if you haven't started yet and want to, there's still plenty of time to take part. Now just to give you a brief insight into how other people are finding the way meditation app, which is Henry's app. This is just one of the many incredible comments I've received over the past few months. Hi, doctor Chachji. I have recently started using the way. I have tried dozens of times to meditate, but never found any other apps useful. Three months in with The Way, I have to say it's changed my life. I used to think of meditation as just another chore, but now I actively look forward to it, and I love the benefits I feel from the practice. Guys, that is exactly how I feel and why I'm so passionate about trying to inspire more and more people to give this practice a go. So this March, why not join Henry and me and thousands, tens of thousands of other meditators on this thirty day journey? All you have to do to take part is go to the wayapp.com forward slash live more. You'll get practical tips, exclusive content, and 30 free short meditation sessions to get you going. I have also joined the challenge, and I'm using the Way app every day throughout the month. And I very much hope you decide to join me. And now, here's another short relaxing meditation from Henry. Welcome to another meditation with me, Henry Shookman. In this one, we're gonna be moving into a very important topic, actually, which is how to be with emotions that may come up when we're meditating. It's a it's a critical thing because meditation is this space where we we sort of let go of the common ways that we hold ourselves together to move through our days. And we allow this deeper side of us to come forward, and we we actually don't want to be pushing that away. But it may bring emotion with it. So it's really helpful to be able to host emotion, to be allowing of emotions that come up, and that actually helps diffuse them. There's a wonderful poem by the Sufi poet Rumi called The Guest House, which I just wanna share part of with you now, which expresses this so well. The guest house. This being human is a guest house. Every morning, a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness. …