Principlev1
When you notice more emotions after beginning awareness
When you notice more emotions after beginning awareness practice, recognize this as increased detection sensitivity rather than increased emotionality — the emotions were always present but undetected.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Attention as Gate to Conscious Perception (attention as precondition for perception), Neural Plasticity Enables Lifelong Automatic Learning (neuroplasticity increases pattern detection), and The nervous system habituates to repeated, predictable (habituation to repeated stimuli). It reframes a common experience that causes people to quit as evidence of progress rather than regression.