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“This is a standard meditation instruction that you can embody in the entirety of your life: do not act out and do not repress. See what happens if you don’t do either of those things. ”

“When you act out, the energy of your emotion goes into the action. In other words, you deflect the energy from the actual uncomfortable experience. I’ve found that when we do this, the energy comes back again and again and again.”

“When you repress what happens, the energy that you’re trying to move away from gets locked in your body, and it manifests as physical pain and illness.”

— Pema Chödrön, How to Meditate