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If current events are making you feel less than settled, you’re far from alone. Brexit and the subsequent fallout have left the whole nation in a new era of uncertainty. So how can you best manage difficult feelings? The answer could lie with the practice of mindfulness: learning to be comfortable with uncomfortable emotions. ‘We all feel the urge to resist feelings like stress and anxiety, but life is filled with challenging situations; pushing them away tends to make us more stressed,’ says Ed Halliwell, author of Into The Heart Of Mindfulness (Piatkus, £13.99). ‘Accepting and working with these feelings mindfully saves energy and allows us to become familiar with them. With practice, we become skilled at managing them, and they lose their power over us. Allow physical sensations like tightness in your chest to arise, sit with them, and let go of reacting. Like bad weather, they pass naturally.’