feeling your feelings
Who would we be without the intelligence of our feelings to tell us who we are 🪶 🪲
Your feelings are your limitless vocabulary to helping you explore your true identity.
Held within this vast encyclopaedic landscape of creative, expressive energy, you reside. You are that emotional energy.
Believing we are good listeners, good communicators and articulate in our expressive voice seems true, until we are challenged by the emotions of our bulging hearts and foggy brains to speak up for our Self. Facing the lethargy of overwhelming emotions can often feel too hard. But, behind these big feelings are our stories of remembering.
They are the remembering of our dreams and of the person holding their hopes inside those dreams.
Potential waiting to be realised without that awful feeling of hopelessness; of feeling powerless.
You ARE the meeting place of your powerful emotional energies. You are your feelings always safely free to fall, whenever you are ready, into your own arms of loving intelligence. Trusting intelligence. Emotional intelligence where you dare to meet your kind and loving Self through the stories you uncover.
Feelings are a marriage of love and forgiveness, held without the burden of judgment or any other emotional weight.
It is an embracing of your loving Self with all the other parts of you that were collected along the way. It is a joining to feel whole.
And in this joining you begin to remember you ARE strong in your Spirit. Good in your heart. Aware in your power. Open to change. Determined in your courage. Consistent in your truth as you learn to walk in tune with nature, as nature intended, ready to express and experience in new ways. Awake to listening for the very first time, every time.
Why do we have feelings?
To find our voice so we can tell our stories of love and forgiveness as only we can feel it. Where we bravely learn to harmonise our listening to all listening, and to see far beyond the illusion of what we think.
We have our feelings to teach us how to be strong in our Mind. How to love, care for and support our Self so we can be the strength needed to support others. And to sew these seeds of strength, beautifully bound as love and forgiveness into our family homes to ensure they continuously carry the power of a strong Mind.
Our feelings are our language for reaching deep into the endless well of our Soul, to discover our Self over and over so we transform and bring forward new ideas to Inspire.
Our feelings are where we learn to become wise elders and the keepers of knowledge. We experience the hard life lessons so we value responsibility and etch it deep into our mind to secure the path for future generations.
What is a feeling?
A feeling is a vibration of energy that moves through our entire body. It is a sensation felt with our breath and our heart beat, channelling the nervous system as we listen. We feel it when we are still. We feel it when we are restless. Aware and observant. Curious as to what it all means.
Feelings when flowing through us have no weight. We want for nothing because there is nothing we want. Feelings just are. They are colours, no more brighter or duller than any other colour.
When we add thoughts of judgement to what we are feeling, rather than just allowing the feeling to be felt fully, we lose touch with the feeling.
We remain attached to the belief and unconsciously diminish the truth of the feeling. (This is the power of observation when we are present and aware with our attention).
When our thoughts and feelings flow freely through us, uninhibited by heavy emotions, we feel a state of peace in whatever we are purposefully doing.
Energy signals are sent from the awareness of our Mind to our brains to communicate this peaceful state of Heart.
Understanding Reality
What is real is always present. It is the meeting of awareness with awareness, Soul to Soul, essence to essence. We sense who we are when we are present, and we sense this presence in other people. We see the person and not the conditioning.
Outside of this nothing is real. Why? Because all existence outside of this is an illusion, created from what we think and believe from our vivid imagination. We all too often habitually anticipate what we want to hear rather than being present and open to the unknown, listening as though for the very first time, every time?
Emotions
An emotion is a thought attached to feeling.
Thoughts are a form of energy. They come and go freely when our Mind is clear and still.
When there is a belief attached to what we are thinking, especially a belief that makes us feel uncomfortable to the point of resistance or prickling up, we feel a surge of energy rush through our body. We feel a reaction. The power behind this emotion feels very real, and while it is there, alive in us, it is real. For Now. Beliefs are memories stored in our subconscious Mind as well as in our body.
Beliefs are not real. They are illusions. Stories made up from the imagination of our mind and stored as memories that come to life, especially when we are triggered by an unpleasant memory. Beliefs can capture and swallow our Hearts with the full intensity of our emotions, causing us to feel powerless, depriving us of our Hearts truth. Beliefs can crush our Spirit and our creative vitality.
When this happens, we lose connection with what is most precious, and that is the natural flow of giving and receiving love. Our feeling Heart and Spirit’s awareness are blocked (disconnected) from communicating truthfully by this depriving belief.
Beliefs can hold enormous power over the quality of our life. They can hold our happiness captive - if our beliefs are not challenged - and they can impact the happiness and wellbeing of others, especially our loved ones.
Beliefs are inherited through our family dynamics, our environments and through our DNA.
We don’t even know they are there. We live our life according to the perception of our belief systems that are taught to us, often without understanding the confusing power they hold. The only way to truly know what is real and what is not is to hang out with our Self and our feelings. It is what lies behind our feelings that determines our choices in how we ‘open up’ to seeing new realities and new ways of loving, caring for and supporting our Self.
Challenging our beliefs
It’s not easy to be with our feelings when we are being challenged. When strong emotions come to the surface, such as deeply held painful feelings of sadness, anger or resentment, we can only ever do our very best, as hard as it is, to allow these feelings to patiently and compassionately move through us.
Big overwhelming emotions that are physically alive in us do eventually weaken, losing their power, and over time dissolving fully.
The gift you miraculously give your Self is space. You create greater awareness so insight from the deeper intelligence of your Mind guides you to understanding your feelings and your Self better. And to offering you a new perspective on what is possible.
You get to make choices that feel right without the emotional attachment. Choices that come with ease when you listen to your Spirit. Choices that may have you feeling vulnerable and exposed because it is the new unknown, but choices that have you feeling good about your decisions. And about who you believe you are.
Change will always feel uncomfortable when you are learning new ways of being, knowing and doing.
The purpose of feelings
Our feelings help guide us in rearranging the patterns of our Mind so we are attuned to our natural world. We are nature and we were designed to be a loving mirror of nature with pure universal intelligence flowing freely through us all the time. We are after all the caretakers of mother earth, and so we must know how to listen to her for our wellbeing and hers.
When we know how to return to the awareness part of our Mind we find we are never alone. We never lose our sense of belonging. We can always return to our anchor.
Practicing to feel our feelings as our new normal
We do have to practice taking care of our feelings by giving attention to each feeling that stirs our core and overwhelms us, until the practice of feeling with our full awareness feels normal. Over time it becomes a beautiful discipline of love that can carry us with ease through life.
The feeling exercise is a very simple way of practicing how to find space in your Mind and to fill that space with love.
It is a gradual transformation from the debilitating feeling of hopelessness to that of hope. You learn to become master of the energy power that lives within you. You get to decide who you want to be. And to be that feeling.
The feeling exercise (click here)
It is super empowering undoing what you thought to be real, to what is actually real. From telling your self it’s impossible, or that you can’t do it or have it because that’s what you believed to be true, to feeling free and fulfilled in your choices.
When we ignore our feelings
Uncomfortable, prickly and overwhelming emotions don’t go away if they are not tended to.
Our footprint matters. And so do our human rights. Realising we have far greater freedoms of choice than what our limited Self has been taught is such an injustice to our emotional goodness, to our sense of identity and our natural feeling of belonging.
Often we don’t even know we are denying our Self the truth of our latent feelings. However, the clues are all around us in everything we do and say. Change comes when we are ready. After all, our Spirit knows best and will push us continuously out of our comfort zone to urge us to our heart’s truthful right to belong.
It will seem scary at first and very overwhelming because it is fear that initially taught us to ‘neglect’ our loving Self, and to hide away from these misunderstood emotions.
Honesty comes from being consistent
Being naked to the vulnerabilities of our Heart ache and the discovery of this intricately delicate balance between meeting love and forgiveness is a beautiful blossoming that brings us back into harmony with nature.
The gentle child you remember in the adult you are now.
It can be a painful beauty of cherishing what could not possibly be understood unless we willingly lay bare with the honest consistency in feeling over and over the deepest parts of our Self.
Here we get to retrieve our true identity by steering our Mind deep into the eyes of our Soul. Fully open and fully accepting to the full surrendering of our emotions.
The honesty of courage to be open to your vulnerable feelings is worth every moment to the restoration of your Mind, and to feeling the depth of your goodness.
You attract the right choices to create the hopes and dreams that match your new reality. And that is to know love.
The feeling exercise (click here)
Our feelings are the source of our power, our creative expression and unlimited abundance.