Researchers distinguish between active acceptance and resigning acceptance.*
Experimenting with your emotions helps you move from self-judgement to self-curiosity**
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
A bad night–
Major past mistakes
crowding in on me.
I rushed toward feeling
bad about them, feeling
bad about me.
I thought that I’d learnt
from my errors,
But still they haunted me.
This morning after, I read
how emotions unfold
through four stages:^
Encounter, attention, appraisal, feeling and behaviour–
How, at any stage,
I can bring my curiosity and inquiry.
I cannot go back
but I can go forward
with the time I have left.
An agent of curiosity
continuing to learn,
Living knowledge into wisdom.
*Anne-Laure Le Cunff’s Tiny Experiments;
**Anne-Laure Le Cunff’s Ness Labs newsletter: Experimenting With Emotions;
^The research of psychologist James Gross.
THIN|SILENCE 