Brianna Wiest - The Mountain Is You_ Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (2020)

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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So you know that emotions sometimes get stored in your
body when they are not fully expressed. Be this as it is,
how do we begin to flush ourselves from them?
There are a number of strategies that you can use to do
this, and what matters is that it’s effective for you. There is
no one-size-fits-all, but there are a few options that tend
to work well for most people, particularly when they are
used in tandem.
STOP MEDITATING TO FEEL CALM; START MEDITATION TO
JUST FEEL.
I know that this goes against everything you’ve ever heard
about meditation. But it is actually the point of meditation.
If you sit down for a 10-minute session and try to
force yourself to be relaxed and light, you are effectively
doing the exact same type of suppression that likely gave
you the need to meditate in the first place.
Instead, the point of meditation is to sit idly as you experience
all of those feelings come up: the rage, the fear, the
sadness, the overwhelming mind chatter…and in spite of
how alluring or triggering it may be, you learn to stay still
and not respond to it. You learn to allow these thoughts
and feelings to come up and then pass by virtue of you not
reacting to them.
This takes practice.