{"id":257,"date":"2017-04-18T05:45:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T09:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/lochkelly\/?p=257"},"modified":"2017-04-18T05:45:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T09:45:39","slug":"vulnerability-without-overwhelmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lochkelly\/vulnerability-without-overwhelmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerability without Being Overwhelmed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung called neurosis the avoidance of legitimate suffering. We avoid suffering related to loss, disappointment, or growing pains because we don\u2019t have the capacity to bear it if we\u2019re operating from ego-identification. Our sense of self is just too small to deal with more powerful emotions.<\/p>\n

How do we remain vulnerable, sensitive, and intimate with life without being overwhelmed? Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche says, \u201cEveryone is overcome by disturbing emotions unless they are stable in nondual [awake] awareness. We begin by immediately shifting our location into awake awareness rather than working first with our emotions or external situations from ego-identification.<\/p>\n

What if your difficult feelings, your sensitive emotional make-up, or the memories of your traumas never go away? What I\u2019m getting at is that instead of focusing on what emotions are arising, the real question is who or what are the feelings arising to? From what level of consciousness are you viewing and feeling? From awareness-based knowing, you can be sensitive, vulnerable, and courageous.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For more, see Loch\u2019s book and audio of meditations, Shift Into Freedom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung called neurosis the avoidance of legitimate suffering. We avoid suffering related to loss, disappointment, or growing pains because we don\u2019t have the capacity to bear it if we\u2019re operating from ego-identification. Our sense of self is just too small to deal with more powerful emotions. How do we remain vulnerable, sensitive, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2465,"featured_media":258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nVulnerability without Being Overwhelmed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung called neurosis the avoidance of legitimate suffering. 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