Getting Unstuck from Dark Emotions

     We routinely, automatically use our dominant approach to solve ALL problems. And when it doesn't work, we double-down and try even harder with the same approach! This simplistic rigidity seems to be our default setting.
    Since we're not dealing with a nail, let's set aside the old hammer, open up our neglected toolbox of far more sophisticated, evolved, subtle skills!

    Amoda Maa provides expert guidance on how to free ourselves from feeling stuck in the cycle of dark emotions. Listen to her short (9 min) video (bottom of page) and read along with this transcript :

    “When that feeling is here, contemplate, investigate within yourself as you sit here, and ask yourself, ‘Is it possible to recognize the groundless ground within which this feeling is being experienced?’

    This is not a denial of the feeling, which is a texture. But the texture, the tapestry is being woven upon a canvas. And in this case the canvas is invisible. It’s that very subtle sense of Beingness, is it not true, that’s always here, whether the feeling is prevalent or not?

    So this expands your attention. It expands the perspective. It softens the perspective, and it undoes the self, so there’s no self that’s being with the feeling. It is recognizing the groundless ground out of which self and all experiences appear.

    You may experience this as a kind of lightness (peaceful spaciousness). So when that feeling, that texture revisits you, it may – and we don’t know, you have to discover and be open to it – it may have a slightly different texture as time goes on. Your job, if you like, is to recognize that subtle, invisible groundless canvas space awareness Beingness that is always here, within which this feeling, this texture, this tapestry is appearing, and then disappears and may reappear.

    But you may find that the reappearance has a slightly different texture to it over time. Can you see how this shifts your attention? It’s not a denial. It’s not a pulling away from it. It’s recognizing what holds it. And what holds it is Open Awareness. There’s never anything else but Open Awareness that holds everything, holds the whole of existence. When I say hold it’s not limited by a boundary. It’s open, unbounded, infinite holding.”
    Amoda Maa “How to Break Through Feeling Stuck in the Cycle of Dark Emotions” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hejf275VKR4

    I HIGHLY recommend her VALUABLE book:
    Amoda Maa. “Embodied Enlightenment. Living Your Awakening in Every Moment.” Reveal Press, 2017.