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Mindful of emotional feelings

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by Joel and Michelle Levey

Another powerful mindfulness practice is to simply and directly be mindful of emotional feelings.  Every experience or encounter in our lives has a feeling tone to it – pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral – and a word that best describes the quality of feeling we are left with. 

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