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Feel It First

What emotions are, where they live in the body, and how they grow into the beliefs and patterns that shape a life.

Most of us were taught to manage our feelings, fix them, or wait for them to pass. This short book asks something different: feel it first, understand it second.

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What's inside

The chapters follow the path a feeling takes: what it is and where it lives in the body, why presence comes before doing anything with it, and how it points to the beliefs, stories and patterns underneath.

  1. What emotions actually are
  2. Why presence comes first
  3. Meeting the hidden parts
  4. Forgiveness, for giving
  5. From emotions to beliefs
  6. The stories we tell ourselves
  7. Recurring patterns
  8. How patterns are rewired

These pages hold the understanding. The practices that put it to work live in the course.

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Rich D'Amaru, smiling, in a knit cap under a warm hanging lamp

From Rich D'Amaru

For fifteen years I've walked the Amazon and contemplative traditions in ongoing apprenticeship with Peruvian teachers, and supported thousands of people through the most significant experiences of their lives. Feel It First is drawn from the eight week course I teach, and from what I've seen in that work.