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Emotions have a great impact on our lives and we need to develop mindfulness of emotions to their complicated relations with bad humour, and explore pathways of looking at one’s limitations with ‘good humour’. Understand in a playful mood depictions of satire, status anxiety in a television drama. Instead of covering bad spots in our lives due to jealousy, envy, conceit and anger open our minds in non-reactive acceptance. Anger is powerful as its movement is often silent and makes a pact with envy and conceit. Being mindful means you see the emergence and passing away of these states indicating ‘impermanence’ and no ‘ownership’. Forgiveness and patience are important qualities to remedy anger. Anger has a strong physiological presence.

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de Silva, P. (2018). Mindful Emotions. In: The Psychology of Emotions and Humour in Buddhism. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97514-6_1

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