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Mindful Breathing for Sadness and Anxiety
This 38-minute excerpt, recorded in Plum Village, France on April 13, 2000, is Thich Nhat Hanh’s Dharma talk “How to Practice When Feeling Down or Anxious.” Thay offers two mindfulness approaches for moments of sadness or anxiety.
- “Changing the peg”: using the tenth exercise of mindful breathing to gladden the mind.
- Letting the mental “channel” stay as it is: allowing difficult feelings to be, because the urgent wish to replace them may cause more harm than good.
Thay repeatedly employs the Vietnamese word “tâm,” meaning both heart and mind—the Buddhist citta.
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky.
Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
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