In this week’s retreat teaching, Balancing Emotions, Segyu Rinpoche of the Juniper School shows us how to practice analytical meditation. By using it to develop awareness of our emotional patterns and triggers, we can begin to transform our inner habits and lead a more balanced emotional life.
Rinpoche breaks down analytical meditation into a four-phase process: familiarity, reasoning, application to our lives, and insight, which becomes the object of our concentration. He also introduces us to a way of reframing our emotional vocabulary by going through the Juniper School’s five emotional scales of assertiveness, contentment, realism, compassion, and self-value. Through practicing analytical meditation, he says, we can “dismantle that story, that structure, which has that component that leads us into affliction, leads us into suffering, leads us into stress.”
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