On Feelings and Emotions: At times I am afraid of my own feelings if I don’t get in there and try to control.. what if? When I have a feeling, I lean into it and look at the idea behind the feeling. Learn to live with the “dis-ease” that comes when you stop something and practice new behavior, the feelings will pass. Anger can be constructive in telling me that someone else is stepping on some boundaries that I need to enforce. I cannot give what I do not have. I am not responsible for other people’s happiness. “Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” A.S. Roche Toxic shame = the feeling that I am a mistake instead of feeling that I made a mistake. We don’t have to act on our feelings, we can look at them and let them pass. All suffering is the result of thought pointing in the wrong direction. Thought does not change an emotion but action does. Every time I tell the truth, I gain my own freedom. I need to be true to who I am to be able to have a sense of self. Am I comparing my insides with other people’s outsides when I feel out of it in a group? Don’t turn feelings into decisions.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:36:39 +0000