Feeling Your Feelings Is A True Skill
No one feeling is the same and they can often overwhelm us with their power. Later on in life, we may learn to “control” our feelings and determine which feeling we will allow and which we will not. This may be a logical way of reacting, but it is not necessarily a healthy way.
To be a fully free being involves having mental, physical and emotional freedom.
While science and education have provided vast amounts of data and information of what and how the human body functions, I believe this preoccupation with these details have precluded us from improving the way in which we live in our bodies. Approaching the body as something separate from us leads to a non-integrated distant view of yourself living in your body.
We Live in a Realm of Possibility
What you think could happen will happen and if you accept that anything is possible, then anything will be possible for you.
Society has driven many assumptions into our heads regarding a great many things. Since extremes usually help to make a point I will make mine using the following example:
If you assume your perception of death is the truth, then this becomes your reality however, on this particular subject the truth is we really do not know what occurs after our body dies. You may believe there is nothing but if you lose sight that this is an assumption it becomes a belief. Then you start to live your life around this belief and certain behaviors must be adapted to in order to maintain this belief.
No matter what our beliefs may be, no matter how strongly you believe in this or that, the fact remains that on the subject of death you/we truly don’t know (unless you have been there). Furthermore, if you agree with the definition that knowing only occurs with experiencing, you/we cannot know what death is until it is experienced.
I believe death has gotten bad press. Death is an unknown. We have no “proof’ of what happens when we die. Each one of us at some point will pass. Death is not bad in and of itself. It is a necessary ending to life and is as meaningful as birth. Death can teach us about letting go and that things do not last. Death helps us to accept things we cannot control. We learn, it is okay for things to change. Change is not bad. It is a transition (one that may or may not be painful. It all depends upon your relationship to it and how you process it) into new more useful forms. If death is an unknown and you are afraid of death, then what you are really afraid of is the unknown. What you may be afraid of is the possible experience death may provide over which you have no control.
If you believe nothing happens after you die then I ask you how do you feel about being nothing? If you say the thought of being nothing frightens you then most likely you will avoid (and fear) any experiences that reminds you of being nothing. Since fear is an experience most of us try to avoid, you will avoid any experience similar to the feeling of being no-thing. Attempting something new requires venturing into the unknown. This experience may remind you of the possibility of failure and the implication that if you fail you will have nothing and, therefore, may be no-thing. So, as you get more advanced in practicing your belief on death, whenever you attempt some new endeavor you must face the feeling of being no-thing. You will feel the subsequent fear your action produces. You can also feel the possibility of attaining your goal and reaching a higher level. Depending upon your commitment you may collapse, weep and blame the world for being too hard or you may confront and conquer your fear to then stride forward with more understanding of yourself and life.
FYI - I must take this moment to point out, the feeling of being nothing is just a feeling. It is not a truth. You cannot be no-thing. That is a contradiction. (The way you know you cannot be nothing is that some-thing can only consider that IT is no-thing. No-thing would not have the faculty to make such a statement or originate such a thought.)
The point here is whatever beliefs you have accepted to be fact in your life may or may not support all goals in your life and may be in the way of your higher aspirations. Emotions can be either powerful enemies or allies. The choice is yours.