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Bev Sartain posted an update 8 years, 1 month ago
Check and observe your emotions today. How are you feeling?
Bev Sartain posted an update 8 years, 1 month ago
Check and observe your emotions today. How are you feeling?
Feeling not too high and not too low, just sort of even keel. This feeling can be deceiving for me because it leaves me wondering why I can’t feel more one way or another. It’s as though deeper feelings are hidden away somewhere inaccessible to me, for my own self prefervation. Hope that makes sense.
I feel calm and confident. And a bit curious.
Cool! I’ve had a REALLY energetic week. I’ve been eating WAY better which is kind of funny because I was already eating really well. My husband and I are committed to 3 months of plant-based eating. I feel like I stepped into another level of ownership around my food and nourishment and it’s been a whole other level of energy over here.
Good for you and your husband on up leveling your eating and increasing your energy ☺️
What if you could feel them?
I wish I could.
The misunderstanding is that if we feel them we won’t be able to handle it. I know you to be WAY more powerful than that. I had the same experience for awhile where I couldn’t feel. I just kept intending to feel so that I could resolve the emotions and thoughts and create peace in my life. I KNEW that I would be supported by the Universe if I did the inner work. So I’m not pushing you at all here. You know yourself best always. I just started with intending to feel so I could heal. Oh, that rhymes, lol. Seriously, the intention is this amazing baby step that gets things into motion.
I like that. There’s something about feeling my feelings I associate with strengthening my ego or validating it. Not sure if that’s where the block lies since I’m trying not to feed the ego. It just seems counterintuitive to embracing authenticity.
Bev I love what you said about intending to feel. That feels so empowering. You’re right about the misunderstanding that if we feel we won’t be able to handle it. That’s exactly what I was experiencing. And what you & Wes were talking about as far as awareness being the first step to being able to choose differently. This is all so helpful.
Yesterday was a crazy day. Lots of stress and anxiety because of a big project/presentation at work in the afternoon and then after it was over I was kind of riding high on adrenaline because it went so well. What I noticed is that more thoughts of drinking crossed my mind than usual I think because my feelings in general were so intense all day, that I was looking to level out or numb I guess. So I totally get what you’re saying Wes about feelings. I think my instinct is to not feel too much good or bad. But I didn’t drink, and this morning I’m grateful to have a more peaceful day to balance yesterday out 🙂
Great noticing Jane. I love knowing that I can just notice and I don’t have to follow through on a behavior because of a feeling or thought. We are going to be on point some days and feel off point others…that’s okay. We want to shoot for less “crazy” days and more “balanced” days. Just the intention to be more aware, in ownership and peaceful can support you in having more of those days. Congrats on learning from your experience. Drinking would open the door to shame, feelings of unworthiness and more stress.
Congrats on noticing that the intention behind your drinking was to numb out and that this belief no longer serves you as you seek to feel your feelings to see what you can learn about balance and peace. Powerful awareness Jane