Tolerating the Intolerable

We all have "blocks." At least that's how we think of them and what we call them. We know they are present when we experience sensations of anxiety, boredom or even inexplicable anger. To others, they often look like denial, defensiveness or even dissociation. We can't see them, touch them or taste them. We can't hear them or smell them, either. The fact that we can't use our five primary senses to understand their nature leaves us with vague sense that we're missing something, even if we don't know what. And so we must rely on our internal, "emotional intuition", a sense that many of us don't know how to use very well. 

Emotional intuition is the subtle process by which we know what we feel at any given moment. We can learn to develop this sense and to deeply experience and tolerate the subtle changes that waft across the emotional field of internal world. Within a process of emotional meditation is the potential to dissolve these "blocks", to subtly allow them to melt away and to experience the waves of emotions that are hidden by them. In reality, there are no "blocks", no walls and no true separation between ourselves and these secret spaces. There are only processes that can be recognized, accepted and altered.