How Do I Practice Mindfulness When I Am Bitter About Life?

@adoredHug70

Hello Adored thank you for sharing this question with us Well I could go ahead and share the normal thing people say "Hun that's the best time to practice" Nah thumbs down on that-right!!! Mindfulness can be done at any time or any feelings/thoughts you may have. But when feeling anger or rage I personally feel mindfulness doesn't fully work. It is ok for you to feelangry/pissed off and raging for that reason.

I hope these might help you a bit

https://youtu.be/Ec6GYKxNMds Release anger meditation

https://youtu.be/Jxo7nvY0Y-A Transforming Anger Meditation-male voice soft

These might help you still practice mindfulness while angry.....

If not please let me know and I or the team can come up with some others things to help you. hugs

@adoredHug70

Tha KS for this post, I was wondering the same

@adoredHug70

Hey! I am sorry to be replying very late! I think you raise a good point and question.

It's probably the most difficult to practice mindfulness when we feel anger, rage, or bitterness because mindfulness requires that we pay attention to the discomforting or negative emotions/thoughts that we are experiencing in the present moment. When we are experiencing uncomfortable emotions or thoughts, it can feel much more rewarding to act on them rather than observe them because we feel like we are actively solving a problem, whether that looks like getting revenge, getting even, or acting passive-aggressive. However, acting on uncomfortable emotions rarely helps us feel better in the present moment. Observing our bodies responses to our own thoughts and feelings as well as those thoughts and feelings can be a more effective way to process/deal with the challenges we are facing.

There are a couple of ways to practice mindfulness when we are feeling these intense and uncomfortable emotions:

1. Focusing on the breath: choosing something singular to focus on, like the breath, is a great way to practice mindfulness when we are feeling overwhelmed. It only requires that our attention shift from a negative stimulus to a neutral sensation, like our breath, following the senations of inhaling and exhaling. We can pay attention to how our bellies rise and fall with inhaling and exhaling. We can pay attention to the temperature of our breath and the pace.

2. Guided meditations: Rumple listed some great ones for processing anger. There are many great ones on YouTube and our Mindfulness Resource Library I like these: Get Over Anger: Guided Meditation Calm Ocean Waves - Guided Meditation to Cool Anger Forest River - Guided Meditation to Let Go

3. Being present to the emotions and thoughts: This is really difficult to do, but with practice and patience, it can become easier over time. Mindfulness requires that we pay attention to uncomfortable emotions and thoughts. We can do this by simply observing them and labeling them as "uncomfortable" or "I am sensing anger or rage." We can just sit with them and watch them manifest without getting caught up in the narratives that sparked them. We can realize that we are not our anger or rage, though we may feel them.

I hope this helps answer your question

@adoredHug70

I can completely related to this. I feel like this all the time.