feeling your feelings
Who would we be without the intelligence of our feelings? 🪶 🪲
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 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.
You ARE the meeting place of your powerful emotional energies. You are your feelings always safely free to fall, whenever you are ready, into the 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 when it comes down to it, 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 and shiny in your Spirit. Good in your heart. Aware in your power. 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 our imagination.
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 we need to support others. We can then sew these seeds of strength, bound as love and forgiveness, into our family to ensure they learn the power of growing 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.
Our feelings are where we learn to become wise elders and the keepers of knowledge, valuing the understanding of responsibility as it is etched deep into our Mind, securing 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 that harmonises with our breath and with our heart beat, channelling our 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 like colours, no more brighter or duller than any other colour. They all add to the perfection of the moment, however it unfolds.
When we add thoughts of judgement or analysis to what we are feeling, rather than just allowing our Self to feel the feeling fully, we lose our creative truth behind the feeling. We hold on to the feeling with the control of our beliefs.
We are attached to the idea, adding an interpretation to the moment and unconsciously diminishing the truth of what we are feeling.
When our thoughts and feelings flow freely through us, uninhibited by any interpretation, we feel a state of peace. We have all felt this peace at various stages of our life.
Energy signals are sent from the awareness of our intelligent Mind to our brains, which then sends chemical and electrical impulses throughout our body, to communicate this peaceful state of Heart. We feel attuned and alive. We are moving as nature with nature.
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. Outside of this nothing is real. Why? Because all existence outside of this is an illusion, created from what we think and believe from the vivid imagination of our Mind. When we are listening, are we anticipating what we want to hear, or are we present, open to the unknown, listening and seeing 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. But when there is a belief attached to what we are thinking, especially beliefs that make us feel uncomfortable to the point of resistance and 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 body alive from our past.
Beliefs are not real. They are illusions. Stories made up from the imagination of our analysing and critical thinking mind and stored as memories that come to life when we are triggered. Our Mind can hold tremendous power over our feelings. 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 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 infinite intelligence (present awareness) are blocked from communicating truthfully by the depriving belief. By a story or illusion we created from the past. Most often from our childhood, altering how we identify with our understanding of love, and our good self.
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 through the choices attached to our beliefs.
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 their confusing nature. 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 the choices in how we ‘open up’ to seeing new realities and new ways of loving, caring and supporting one another.
Challenging our beliefs
It’s not easy to be with our feelings when we are challenged, but when strong emotions pop up, such as deeply held 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 do eventually weaken, losing their power, and over time dissolving fully.
The gift is the space you create in your Mind, your brain and your body so insight from the intelligence of your Mind guides you to understanding your Self better. And to offering you a new perspective in how you see your choices.
Choices that feel right, without the emotional attachment, and choices that come when you listen, with ease. 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 your Self.
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 of our Spirit after feeling big emotions, we find we are never alone. We never lose our sense of belonging.
Practicing to feel our feelings as our new normal
We do have to practice taking care of our emotions by giving attention to each feeling, until the practice of feeling with our awareness feels normal. Over time it becomes a beautiful discipline of love that carries us through life.
The feeling exercise is a very simple way of practicing how to find space in your Mind and body, and to fill that space with love.
It is a gradual transformation from the debilitating and powerless feeling of hopelessness to that of hope. You learn to become master of the energy power within you.
The feeling exercise (click here)
Inside these newly explored feelings are needs, hopes and dreams waiting to be turned into choices that help you to grow, to light your Spirit and Souls path, and to allow you to feel good about who you are.
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 your analytical Mind believed a belief that was taught to you, 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, like a well-loved garden.
It is easy to choose our fate according to what we choose to believe. We decide that this is how it is or has to be, and we accept it. And that is fine. But unless we challenge what we believe, we can too easily become a part of a complacent society that struggles to evolve. So, our footprint does matter.
Often we don’t know we are denying our Self the truth of our latent feelings. However, the clues are all around us, and these clues grow over time in their limiting intensity through our daily interactions, and through how we communicate and try to express our Self.
Change comes when we are ready. After all, our Spirit knows best and will push us continuously to listening to our truth.
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
Facing our feelings is really hard until it is not. The more we uncover, the more clearly we see our Self. And the easier we flow with life.
Being naked to the vulnerabilities of our Heart aches and the discovery of this intricately delicate balance between meeting love and forgiveness is a truly beautiful blossoming to bring us back in 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 and over, the deepest parts of our Self.
In here, we 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.
The feeling exercise (click here)
Our feelings are the source of our power, our creative expression and unlimited abundance.