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When awareness creates secondary emotional reactions

Mindfulness helps me see how angry I am all the time but now I just feel angry about being angry.

Patan
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The observer self becomes another layer of judgment rather than a spacious witness to emotional experience.

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“Where Are You with Mindfulness as psychological intervention?”

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