The Art of Emotional Balance: Mindful Toolkit for Difficult Emotions with David Oromith
Session One - Why Rejection Hits So Hard
David Oromith · 73 minutes · recorded August 6, 2025
David opens with a twenty minute guided shamatha practice, settling attention on the breath and noting its length. The talk sets out the five stages of an emotional episode: pre-episode state and intention, trigger, bodily and mental experience, behaviour and aftermath, distinguishing universal triggers like a sense of rejection from personal ones learned in childhood. He introduces the emotional diary for tracking these, and answers a question on anxiety about being anxious before the break.
Anxiety and fear Emotional balance Shamatha (calm abiding)