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After I read Sarno's book, I realized that my emotions were all frozen. I did not feel any of them. It took me a long time of observing myself to figure out that emotions are a rush of hormones through my body and if I pay close attention I can catch that split-second moment when I feel the emotion before repressing it. (By the way, suppressing and repressing are different. Suppression is a conscious act of ignoring an emotion, while repression is when suppression becomes automatic). It then took me another long time to not take my attention from the unpleasant feeling of emotion when it came. You need to start being very mindful about your reactions in life situations.