This mini-series provides an introduction to how to work with emotions, particularly anger, and how we might attend to the emotions we experience within our body. Included are a series of guided practices that may be helpful in attending to our emotions, and how we may guide our feelings in ways in order to re-frame and allow us to engage more constructively to our day-to-day life.

Emotion Talks & Guided Meditation Practices: A Mini-Course Series by Eve Ekman

This brief talk discusses the attention we bring to our body when we have felt emotions. This attention to our body and its sensations refers to "interoceptive awareness". Led by Eve Ekman, this talk guides the listener to ways we can attend to our experienced emotions - head, face, body, physiological sensations. In attending to our emotions, we can be aware and respond in more proactive ways.

Embodied Emotion Talk

An accompanying practice in the talk on embodied emotions. Led by Eve Ekman.

Handshake With Emotions

How do our emotions intertwine with our stress? Stress is a natural part of our life. It can be adaptive when it moves us, motivates us to take action. When we have the resources and means to take on a challenge, we may feel adequate in taking on a stressor. Alternatively, when we don't have the resources and means to meet the stressor or demands in our life, this can become overwhelming. 

Our appraisal (or evaluation) of a stressor can also play a role in how we then feel about taking on a stressor. Attending to our emotion can help us be proactive in handling our stress. 

A brief talk led by Eve Ekman.

Emotions and Stress Talk

Anger can be a turbulent emotion - one that we often struggle with. It comes up in ways that can catch us off-guard, and leave us with dismay in its aftermath. Anger itself is not inherently bad. It alerts us to what may harm us or situations that go against our own values. It can move us towards action against social injustices. Cultivating an awareness of our anger can be really helpful, so that we can attend to the first signs of it and to respond in ways that we may feel is more adaptive to the situation at hand.

A talk by Eve Ekman.
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Working With Anger Talk

Handshake Practice with Emotion 2

A practice of attending to the felt experience of the body -- cultivating greater depth of awareness of our experiences in order to allow us to gain greater awareness of our feelings that may occur with experiential sensations.

A practice led by Eve Ekman.

Handshake Practice with Emotion 1

A brief practice in attending to the sensations of anger, so that we may be able to catch the initial feelings of anger that arise at a given moment. This practice is meant to ease one into the practice, recalling a moment of frustration but not intense anger as a place of practice.

Led by Eve Ekman.

Handshake Practice With Anger

A live, extended practice on anger - attending to the bodily, experiential sensations that occur alongside our feeling of anger. In this practice, it is important to settle into the body, the breath, and observe non-judgmentally the sensations one feels in anger. 

A practice led by Eve Ekman.

Handshake With Two Types of Anger [Live]

A deep practice exploring the emotion of shame. Shame can be highly motivating (e.g., encourage us to engage in reparatory behaviors and actions), yet can also be highly distressing. How do we navigate feelings of shame, so that we may be guided towards reparatory and adaptive responses that may heal one's self and others? 

A practice led by Ryan Redman.

Selflessness Meditation on Shame

“Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work."  – Thich Nhat Hanh 

This is a free account for guided practices in mindfulness meditation.  People often don't spend time in the day for themselves. Give yourself a small treat and sit quietly with yourself for a few minutes, using these recordings to support you in your state of peace. 

Emotion Talks & Guided Meditation Practices: A Mini-Course Series by Eve Ekman

Cultivating Emotional Balance