Strong Feeling as Practice

When a strong emotion arises during the day, anger at a careless driver, sharp disappointment at news, fierce love for a child, do not react and do not suppress. Find a moment, even a few seconds, to place attention directly on the felt-quality of the emotion in the body. Where is it? Hot or cold? Sharp or wide? Sit with it for those few seconds without taking the next step. The emotion was always going to move through you. Today it moves through awareness instead of through speech or action, and leaves no debris behind.