Feelings are a Gateway to Soul
Our world mixes feelings with emotions all the time. Yet I truly believe they are very different entities. Feelings are full of the senses, and more than just the basic 5 of touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing. Many say there are at least 9, with scientists thinking there are about 21. Senses are groups of cells that respond to physical phenomenon and light up a certain area of the brain that quickly interprets and receives these signals. Senses respond and nearly automatically react to things like pressure, movement, vibration, pain, balance, heat and cold, itch, thirst, hunger, magnetic fields, and sense of time. Thinking is too slow here. The body has a deep innate ‘knowing’ of what it needs. Internal senses are said to stretch to keep blood flowing through arteries, food moving through digestive tracts, air circulating from lungs to brain, throat receptors, and others gauge salt levels, foreign objects in food, fullness, and body temperature. The word itself comes from ‘sen’, to feel, sensation.
Emotion, on the other hand, comes from the French word, ’emouvoir’, to stir up, to move away, to disturb. Our emotions have become entwined with our thinking mind, tied to memories and major drama. We can get all upset, excited, or riled up just thinking about what we believe happened in the past. We quickly forget that we have our own reality, our own recollection of every event that has occurred. We each are shaded by different perceptions of reality. Every viewpoint is unique with no one absolute reality existing anywhere, except within our own little mind.
To Focus on Feelings takes us deeper to the Unknown, to the hidden reality, where we really don’t know what happens next. It’s where we do Expressionistic Art, unable to predict the outcome of the final piece. It’s an exciting place to feel, aim for, and recognize, that connects us deeply to our intuition, to instinct, and creativity. It’s the home of our true Creator Self, the inner Wisdom guide who knows all the answers, or I should say, knows that we don’t need all the answers to everything in order to grow and move forward in life. Letting go of ‘having to know everything’, opens us to knowing the really important things in life, like Love, Beauty, Compassion, and Soul. Living in your feelings carries you in Flow, allows you to partner with the Universe in synchronicity, and propels you forward in an upward spiral as you open to magnificent possibilities and potentials. Don’t let the Emotions keep you down.
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