One way to understand or investigate our emotions/feelings.

I was on a call the other day with a group of colleagues and we learned how to value these things called “feelings”. They are a gift to us. They are here to help us master and decode these gifts from Source.

We can either be bothered by our feelings or we can truly understand what they are telling us. We do need the higher male energy of sobriety! Let’ define that word. Here I am not speaking of not being intoxicated. I am speaking of an earnest, dignity, solemnness in being with our feelings, without the judgment. Observing them.

Many of us can talk ourselves out of what we are truly feeling rather than deeply listening to them. Many of us don’t have the vocabulary to even name them and the various shades of them.

Our intuition uses the pathway of feelings to talk to us. We need to become feeling literate. I personally can’t hear their story if I am trying mentally to talk self out of them, denying, judging or surpassing them or indulging them.

So we were invited to investigate them by creating an asset-deficit list. On the asset side of the list, we are capable of listening to what our feelings are telling us, without over dramatization or indulgence in. This way we can decode them and truly respond to them with love.

On deficit side of this list, we notice when we talk ourselves out of what we are feeling, we rationalize, judge ourselves for feeling that way, suppress them totally or over identify with them. At times we can even overdramatize them or simply indulge them. This is where that sobriety comes in.

Have you noticed any of these tendencies in you?

All of the above create distortions in the message they are trying to deliver us. None of the above is masterful and at this time on the planet, we need more of us to master this realm.

Like I said, many of us conditioned to not listen to our emotions, have you had that experience as a child?

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What is your feeling telling you? Can you cultivate the capacity to hear? Are you skilled enough to listen from your higher nature to lower nature? I had to learn how to listen.

Skill is involved for sure! Most of us get confused with this technology of our physiology. Am I truly willing to listen to what this feeling is indicating.?What is my Spirit/higher nature is trying to help you hear?

The invitation is to investigate your relationship to your feelings. We need to establish right relationship with our feelings, then we are able to get clearer answers.

How do we do this? By building more cable between our hearts and our heads to create more harmonization. It took me the willingness to sit and be still.

I had to learn to appreciate my feelings , the ones I liked and the ones I did not like. What are the messages they are giving me in the moment.

You and I are not our feelings, we have them. In a Course of Miracles they talk about this. The body, (vessel/containeer) holds the feelings as a means of expression to help us get to what is unconscious in us. When I truly understood that I have them, but it is not who I am, it has aided me in forming right relationship with them. I am learning how to listen to them with the heart of love.

Heart focused breathing allows us to quiet our physiology and to come to the table with more love and curiosity. We then can access this pool of stillness that is in our hearts. Establishing an oasis of peace we can sit in the center of. Here, I am learning, I can open a portal of love, with no strings attached.

I can breathe this love in and out through your heart realizing I am broadcasting this love into the field or environment I live in. Feeding my surroundings and everyone I encounter with love. I can then place my intention to be in right relationship with my feelings, building my capacity to learn what they are saying , listening deeply and responding with love to them. I always have to remember to do this in what is highest and best for all!

Take a sober look at your lists from this more neutral open hearted place, listening to what those feelings were truly trying to help me understand from Spirit. This develops within us a deeper communication pathway to Love/Spirit/Source/Soul.

I am enjoying this process within me more and more and finding the freedom I longed for!