Feel Your Feelings
Though we fear it, feeling our feelings is the only clear and direct way to free our hearts of pain.
Mark Nepo: The Book of Awakening
We go through our days feeling millions of feelings. The question is: do we really feel them, or do we ward them off because they’re too uncomfortable or outright scary?
Yes, that is a rhetorical question: I know that I myself ward off too many of them. I don’t want all those feelings to interfere with my plans and my life, or to disturb my inner peace. Unfortunately, thereby I block out parts of life, for what is life if not a current of feelings…?
Here is a meditation, proposed in the book quoted above, that I do regularly and that I find very helpful. I love the notion of being a shore, against which my feelings wash as waves, again and again and again… As the ever returning waves, they change the outline of the shore, but the shore always stays - the shore.
Perhaps you want to try it, too?
- Meditate on the way you might avoid your feelings
- In your silence, stop holding them off with words or reasons or busyness
- Simply be a shore and let your feelings wash against you like waves.
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