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Mental/Emotional/Sensation Rip-Tides And How To Survive Them.

This relocation adventure we are on is wonderful and fun but it is also anxiety ridden, scary and very stressful. Thankfully I am an old experienced traveler on this path and have a head full useful knowledge and many techniques I can pull out of my ruck sack as needed. Remembering when I forget that the Goddess is behind and in everything I encounter in life is my pole star always and everywhere. After that I constantly use understandings and techniques I learned from my time on the meditation path.  Mediation has taught me the value of gently watching my thoughts, emotions, and sensation arise, crest and fade away. The idea is to be aware of thoughts, emotions, and sensations as phenomena without necessarily identifying with them as me. Seeing thoughts, emotions and sensations as phenomena allows me to be able, with some effort, to free myself from their more pernicious influences and thereby not get or stay stuck in those all too familiar and awful self-perpetuating loops. Some...