John,
I sounds like you're doing it exactly right! If you're feeling those emotions, it means those are the emotions that are stuck, unintegrated. That's perfect! Well done!
All you have to do is sit with them and enjoy them. Just feel them and don't judge them. Accept them unconditionally and give them your unconditional attention. If you feel disappointed and discouraged, that's excellent! It means that process it working! It means that those are emotions you've repressed and had trapped for a while and they're surfacing to be loved so they can integrate. Read my last few posts I just posted. They'll give you some information about those things. However, when you're doing the breathing, you don't worry about those emotions. You just focus on the breathing unless you need to cry. If you don't need to cry, wait till the breathing is done, and then address the feelings with love like I spoke about in a previous post today. Feel your way through it and decide what works best for you in those situations.
When it comes to not being able to hear your breath, don't worry about that. Just feel your stomach going in and out. I tried it with no audible breath release this morning and it worked perfectly. You're doing it correctly, don't worry. Those discouraging feelings are exactly what should be coming up. Those are what you want to surface. Keep it up! You're doing it perfectly!
- Brian
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