948: Transforming Stress and Anxiety by Embracing Feeling Tones

In today's episode, Gina discusses the Buddhist concept of feeling tones and how this knowledge can enhance our mindfulness practice and speed our anxiety recovery. Pleasant, unpleasant and neutral are basic categories by which we may categorize our conscious experiences. By doing so, we can become more familiar with our selves and our inner reactions to various stimuli. This leads to improved awareness and preparation for what ever may come into our experience. We become stronger and less likely to fall prey to the suffering of anxiety. Listen in and apply these concepts to your anxiety recovery journey today!

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What is anxiety?

Quote:

Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with Mindfulness.

—Thich Nhat Hanh

Chapters

0:00:24 Introduction to the topic of transforming stress and anxiety

0:01:52 Explanation of the three feeling tones: pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral

0:06:03 Benefits of understanding and cultivating awareness of feeling tones

0:10:10 Skillful responses and reducing avoidance through understanding feeling tones

0:11:21 Incorporating mindfulness practices and meditation to distinguish feeling tones

0:12:27 Guided meditation instruction on tuning into feeling tones

0:15:48 Cultivating Awareness of the Body and Sound

0:16:29 Resting in Open Mindfulness for Mental Wandering

0:17:21 Cultivating Awareness of Feeling Tones in Daily Life

0:18:19 The Power of Increasing Awareness and Letting Go

0:18:39 Meditation: Courageously Facing Reality with Mindfulness

Summary

In today's episode of the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, we delve into the concept of feeling tones based on Buddhist psychology. Feeling tones encompass the three fundamental categories of feelings or sensations that arise in response to our experiences: pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral. By understanding these feeling tones, we can gain valuable insights into the nature of our experiences and gradually reduce attachment and aversion, ultimately leading to a more peaceful state of mind.

By recognizing feeling tones, we can enhance our ability to deal with anxiety by cultivating self-awareness and identifying when anxiety arises. By developing an awareness of feeling tones, we can interrupt automatic patterns of responding with fear or aversion, thus diminishing the intensity of stress and anxiety. Moreover, comprehending feeling tones empowers us to regulate our emotions more effectively and foster a sense of equanimity.

Through acknowledging and accepting different feeling tones, even those associated with discomfort and anxiety, we can cultivate self-compassion and alleviate self-judgment. This self-acceptance reduces the additional stress we impose upon ourselves when we become anxious about being anxious. Additionally, an understanding of feeling tones enables us to respond more skillfully to anxiety-provoking circumstances, opting for a more constructive and composed approach.

By progressively confronting situations in a measured and courageous manner, we can reduce avoidance behaviors that frequently accompany anxiety. Overall, comprehending feeling tones offers valuable insights and tools for transforming stress and anxiety, guiding us towards a more peaceful and liberated state of mind.

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