Emotions Xanma: Giving attention to prana along with the emotion helps a lot. It gets easier with practice. Bruce: Emotions are much like life-forms -- they arise, flower, and die in rather short order if we as "ego" do not attach to them. To borrow Xan's wording, "with practice" this sequence compresses to instantanteousness, winking on and immediately off like a firefly. "Giving attention" to the transient nature of emotion and its effect on our breathing, heartbeat, and sensorium certainly, as Xan says, "helps a lot." That which remains in the absence of such transient phenomena, internal or external, is who we really are.