Emotional

Emotional Health (gratefully feeling)- We often go by “how we feel” to determine what we do in life. We will put labels on feelings, (ie feeling good or bad, Happy is better than sad) Emotional health, I assert, getting that all feelings are just that, feelings. States of being, body sensations that come and go like the weather. As I am writing this document, I have some anxious feelings and nervousness, sensations in my chest and hands trembling a bit. Messages in my head are telling me this is uncomfortable and maybe I should stop writing. Yet if I just be with the sensations they tend to subside and alter. So what one is feeling is just what one is feeling. We attach the meaning to those feelings, there are no innately good or bad feelings, just like weather is not good or bad. We may not like rain or snow storms, yet they have their place. Even Tornadoes and Tsunamis can be devastating yet they are not good or bad they are just what they are. The good news is with our feelings they often disappear when we allow ourselves to be with them fully. “If you let them be, they will let you be” is an acronym often spoke of regarding feelings. Yet sometimes they stick around for a long time. My assertion is we are not accepting them truly. We either overtly or covertly try to make them go away. By doing so we become attached to them and they then have a hold on us. I notice with anger, it starts with anxiety or fear and then turns into anger as a way of moving the energy out of my body. I then will feel guilty, bad about it, get angry at myself which keeps the cycle going until the energy eventually goes away. I will eventually get that the anger was not justified, just my own upset about something that happened, some “wrong” that I made mean something. Knowing all this makes no difference, though. Only when one can have the experience and then be with the feelings as feelings (similar to seeing thoughts as thoughts), then the feelings will move through your body. Seeing emotions as E-motions. The “E” for energy in motion so that feelings are moving energy. Its us that stops the motion by holding onto our feelings. We do that by not being with or accepting them as they are.