The Gifts that Lie Hidden within Difficult Emotions (Part 4): Disconnection and Loneliness

by Yuichi Handa

In this book, you will discover how you can work with your feelings of disconnectedness and loneliness, and how you can turn them around to your benefit. Habitual mental/emotional patterns such as clinginess, neediness, and distractedness, which can also bring about unhappiness for ourselves and others are also addressed. This is a book on how you can get to the heart of these challenging emotion states to find their intrinsic gifts. From the back cover-- Discover and uncover the hidden narrative within difficult mental and emotional states In some self-help and meditation circles, it’s common to hear the refrain, “Just sit with your feelings.” What’s often left unsaid is how each emotion has its own signature movement or “story to tell.” In other words, sitting with confusion is different from sitting with anger, which is different from sitting with loneliness, and so on. Not only does each emotion have its own distinct narrative and manner of unraveling, but each has its own unique gift to impart to those who are patient enough to sit through the unfolding. In each of these short books, I focus in on a specific emotional and mental state and present a map of the terrain you’ll likely traverse when you eventually do sit with and process that particular emotion at hand. My hope is that you’ll find inspiration and value to sit with and to digest these difficult emotional and mental states as they arise and offer their hidden and sometimes surprising gifts.

108 pages, Paperback

Published March 21, 2019

Reviews

[Parvathi · Rating 3 out of 5]

An opening to the difficult emotions... it's not one time read, we may need to repeat the book as we get deviated from emotions so easily. I found part 4 to be confusing , may be was finding difficult to understand. O enjoyed other three more . The opening to how we should see through, listen to our heart, eating it are valuable. I feel for first time readers , we enjoy the part where we feel more connected to. Mine fav was part 2 .