12/10/2025
How to finally hit the emotional pause button?
If you are a high-achieving professional, you know the moment: the meeting ends, the email chain stops, and the sudden quiet leaves you feeling not peaceful, but emotionally confused.
You long for a real pause, but you don't have time for a life overhaul.
Clarity isn't about doing more, but seeing deeper.
The relief starts with one profound recognition: nothing—especially an emotion—arises without a cause.
This principle, known in Buddhist thought as INTERDEPENDENT ARRISING, means your feeling is simply the predictable effect of prior conditions and causes.
Your emotion is not random; it is the logical outcome of a recipe you unknowingly set in motion.
WRITE TO UNRAVEL
The 3-Step Clarity Journaling Practice:
START (The Effect): Take your pen and paper and start by describing exactly how you feel right now. Don't analyze—just write the sensation and the emotion.
REFLECT (The Cause): Calmly look back. What were the specific causes that preceded this feeling? (e.g., a worry, an unresolved conflict).
INVESTIGATE (The Conditions): What were the conditions that supported its growth? (e.g., low sleep, skipped lunch, lack of movement).
By naming this chain of events, you find the genuine pause you crave. Emotional clarity is the natural result of this grounded observation.
If this quiet power resonates, I invite you to do two things:
🤍Follow my page for simple, mindfulness-based practices that bring this clarity into your everyday routine.
🤍Share this post with a colleague or friend searching for a genuine sense of inner peace.
PS: The moment you recognize a cause behind a strong feeling, you have already created a peaceful moment of clarity. You are one step closer to intentional action.
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