In Depth: Inner Calm

Mindful uses this report to examine Inner Calm. Allowing our emotions to arise, be felt, and dissolve helps us cultivate equanimity and inner calm. From this place of balance, we’re more resilient to what life throws at us. The post Inner Calm: The Key is Letting Go appeared.

Allowing our emotions to arise, be felt, and dissolve helps us cultivate equanimity and inner calm. From this place of balance, we’re more resilient to what life throws at us.

Once we return to our inner stillness, we can look at the source of our reactivity, intimately seeing its changing nature: This right here is what frees us. Letting go of attachments to certain outcomes doesn’t, however, mean that we’re suppressing or evading challenging situations.

Instead, this release occurs organically when we comprehend that emotions arise and dissolve—all within ninety seconds. The ninety-second rule is a helpful reminder to ride the waves of our emotions, but emotions can sometimes be so powerful that they hijack our rational thought processes.

The report closes by linking the event to broader consequences.