Labeling Emotions (Audio Meditation)

Chris Germer is a clinical psychologist, meditation practitioner, author, and teacher of mindfulness and compassion in psychotherapy and everyday life. He is also Co-developer of the Mindful Self-Compassion training program, along with Kristin Neff.
Learn more about Chris at www.chrisgermer.com.
Learn more about Mindful Self-Compassion or find an MSC course near you, visit www.centerformsc.org.

[@sophia6297]

I am so out of touch with my emotions, probably because I have a habit of trying to suppress them but also because I feel I can't turn off my brain... For me, emotions must be analyzed, not felt. I don't know how to simply sit, and feel, and discover truth that way...
Meditations like this help me but I still feel like it will take me awhile to develop this skill of allowing myself to feel what I am feeling.

[@liam.4454]

I can label emotions such as happy, sad, fear etc but what about when you feel traumatised and it lingers for a while? What emotion is trauma? How do you label it?

[@sammathews6634]

What do we do after labeling these emotions?