Your Feelings Matter

Your feelings affect your state of mind and your mind influences your body. The mind is a powerful tool which can suggest to the body that it no longer feels any pain, when it ingests a placebo. Similarly the mind can also convince the body that it is unwell beyond belief even when there is nothing physically wrong with you. This is why a hypochondriac is convinced that he is desperately unwell even when all tests are normal. This is all the Law of Attraction in play.

“You can heal what you feel.” – Louise L Hay

Our feelings are always churning in our mind. A situation is neither positive nor negative, but your attitude and feelings make it so. If you are feeling happy you will enjoy even the rainy and cloudy days, but if you are unhappy even a day full of sunshine can be a hot and sweaty trial. An optimist has positive feelings for the majority of the time and thus is able to manifest positive experiences most of the time. No one can be optimistic all the time, there can be doubts and tribulations present which may make your feelings take your mind in circles.

The Revolving Door of Your Feelings

Think about the revolving door that you must enter and move through to find yourself inside the building. If you take too long to exit the revolving door you may end up stepping off just where you started. If you get scared to step out you will find yourself going round and round in the revolving door for a very long time. However if your judgment is correct and you make the right decision you will safely land on the opposite side of the revolving door.

Your feelings are just like this revolving door. If you keep thinking about the feelings all the time you will be unable to step forward. If you decide not to resolve your feelings you get stuck where you are and cannot make any progress. It is only when you ride through the feelings and resolve them do you successfully get to the other side and can move on.  

Honour Each Feeling

When we are happy we have no qualms sharing that feeling with the world. We announce this strong feeling with great ease but if it is a negative emotion such as anger, fear, sadness, jealousy, or frustration we cannot express it with ease. Your negative feelings are as much a part of you as your positive feelings but we are trained from childhood to hide these socially unacceptable emotions. Don’t try to push them into a box and close the lid on them just because you are not proud of them. You are only human and are expected to have some less than savory feelings. 

Resolving Strong Emotions

Acceptance is the first step to resolution. Individually accept each positive and negative feeling. A good time to sift through them is when you sit down to meditate. As you sit in a comfortable posture and try to calm your mind pay attention to each thought that comes to your mind. Identify the feeling it arouses in your mind and then trace it to its origin. Find the source and identify the problem. Thank the feeling for being a part of you, and for bringing the problem to your notice, and then respectfully ask it to leave. 

Do this for each feeling that enters your head while you meditate. Some will go right away while others will return the next time you meditate. Just repeat the process each time you meditate, gradually over time you will find that these strong feelings will reduce their intensity. You will be able to calm your mind faster and this will reflect on your physical body and health.