Coaching practices for Open Awareness After Emotion Work
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- When a big emotion hits, it becomes the whole world
- When I finally work through a hard feeling I rush straight back into doing and it all snaps shut again
- The moment a hard feeling rises in me, I instinctively clench away from it or bolt for a distraction
- There’s this feeling sitting in me and I can feel it in my body, but I don’t really get what it’s about or what it wants from me, and I want to get curious about it instead of just analyzing myself.
- When a feeling takes me over I become it completely
Practices that may help
- Recognize aware presence within strong emotion
When a strong emotion arises, shift to noticing the awareness in which the emotion appears rather than being swept by it.
Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical - After RAIN: resting in natural, open awareness
After the four steps, rest in the open awareness that remains — not returning immediately to doing.
RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice - Meeting emotion in open presence
When a difficult emotion arises during open monitoring, stay in the witnessing position rather than contracting or escaping.
Open Monitoring Meditation, Made Practical - I — Investigate with gentle, curious attention
Bring kind curiosity to the emotion: Where is it in the body? What does it most need?
RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice - Notice the noticer: find the observing awareness
Shift attention from what you are noticing to the awareness that is doing the noticing.
The Witness Stance - Return to the observer during difficult emotional moments
When flooded by emotion, briefly step to the observing perspective before responding.
Self-as-Context (Observing Self), Made Practical - R — Recognize what is happening
Pause and name what is actually present: "Fear is here," "Anger is here," "Shame is here."
RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice - Glimpse practice: a 10-second recognition of aware space
Pause, drop the question "What am I aware of?" and simply notice that awareness is already on.
Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical - Tracking shadow material through the body
Notice where in the body suppressed reactions live — tension, constriction, or deadness are somatic shadow clues.
Shadow Work - Welcome experience rather than manage it
Shift from trying to control or fix your experience to meeting it with open, allowing awareness.
Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Mindfulness Emotion Observation
Observe and describe your experience without judgment, finding the balance between emotion mind and reason mind.
Mindfulness and Wise Mind
- Mindful Awareness Of Emotions
When a strong emotion arises, shift to noticing the awareness in which the emotion appears rather than being swept by it.
Recognize aware presence within strong emotion
- Mindful Observation Emotions
Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
Mindfulness of the current emotion
- Non Dual Awareness When Overwhelmed
Non-dual awareness is a mode of consciousness in which attention is no longer exclusively identified with the contents of experience (thoughts, sensations, feelings) but rests as the open, aware space in which those contents appear. Loch Kelly’s "effortless mindfulness" approach uses short recognition exercises to shift into this mode; research on the broader open-monitoring family of practices finds reductions in anxiety and rumination, though non-dual awareness itself is a newer research area with limited controlled trials.
- Observe Emotions Mindfully
Observe and describe your experience without judgment, finding the balance between emotion mind and reason mind.
- Recognize Emotion Rain
Pause and name what is actually present: "Fear is here," "Anger is here," "Shame is here."
R — Recognize what is happening
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