Emotions Aren’t Good or Bad

So that's the first thing is, you know, moving away from judgment of emotions being good and bad. They just are. And I think, you know, it's really important for all of us in the space that we're in right now to face into ourselves and our situations with greater levels of, you know, what I might call gentle acceptance. What do I mean by this? Gentle acceptance, it's like if you went outside and it was raining. Gentle acceptance is, gee, it's raining. Right. Okay. Not gentle acceptance is, gee, it's raining and why does it always rain when I don't want to rain? Just when I thought I was getting ahead of the rain, it starts raining again. You know, and what we're doing is the more we try to control what is uncontrollable, the more we increase our level of suffering. And the same applies in ourselves. The more we try to control whether we should or shouldn't feel anger, sad, frustrated, the more our suffering and the less our ability to then step out of the emotion because it's going to catch us off guard.