Are our feelings about an experience more important that the experience itself?
@innertalks (21097)
Australia
June 26, 2018 7:18pm CST
"All that matters is how you "feel", from one moment to the next. "
I read this line recently in an email that I received.
The author claimed that what we experience, what we do, what we have, how successful, or not we are in life, all pale in comparison to how we actually feel about it all.
"Only a feeling that feels good, leads you to your ideal life", this guy said.
Here is how he ended his email:
"Think about the emotions you MOST want to feel on a day-to-day basis - then imagine the kind of life that will allow you to have those emotions. This will make it so much easier to identify and create the kind of life that allows you to feel that way every day."
This author is very well respected in the success field.
[Jack Canfield
America's #1 Success Coach
CEO, The Canfield Training Group
Co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul™
New York Times Bestselling Author
http://jackcanfield.com/]
Surely, though, he is only using the one colour of paint to paint this picture with, though, I thought to myself.
What has feeling got to do with awareness and consciousness, love, and our soul, surely, he is barking with only a small bark, as only a small dog here, then?
Our feelings come from our emotional body, and that is all. They are only a small part of us, albeit, an important part too.
But, if we concentrate solely on them, we will miss seeing/acknowledging all of the other bodies inputs too, our thoughts (our mental body), our physicalness of expression and experience (our physical body), our inner consciousness knowingness, or our intuitional body too, even our soul body has input for us, not to be ignored, not to mention also the guidance, that we can receive from God, and from other souls too.
What do you think, was he only painting part of the picture here then, or not?
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Our feelings are important, but they are not all of us. We should not let any one part of us rule over the rest.
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@mlgen1037 (29886)
• Manila, Philippines
27 Jun 18
Hi Steve. How are you? Have not seen you in days. Maybe that is why my father would always tell me not to let my emotions get in the way of my decisions or it will depend on it much of my life. Making decisions with emotions make us irrational. It is actually easier said than done. Feelings are not the be all and end all.
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@mlgen1037 (29886)
• Manila, Philippines
27 Jun 18
@innertalks It means that love gives each part of our body and soul its own task and therefore will have to work together in order reach perfection?
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@innertalks (21097)
• Australia
27 Jun 18
@mlgen1037 Yes, you said it better and simpler than what I could say it. Yes, that's what I think exactly.
We are one in ourselves, even as God is one overall, but we are also made from many different parts, or facets of ourselves, and we can allow love to perfect each one of these parts of us.
Some parts, like our ego, resist the call of love, more than some other parts.
This is why we should have a warm heart, not a cold one too, that resists love's input. A flexible mindset also helps us to be open to love's ever continuous input and guidance in our lives too.
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@mlgen1037 (29886)
• Manila, Philippines
28 Jun 18
@innertalks Thank you, Steve. Then I choose love everyday so that my whole body and soul will only know love and then I can share it with others.
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@Starmaiden (9311)
• Canada
27 Jun 18
I believe Jack Canfield hit the nail on the head.
Sananda Love is our new reality Per Staffan May 21, 2018 Sion in Mexico What is the “Champagne Effect” in my life? Hasn’t it happen that you desire something else than just to survive in this world? Even now that you are awake and have the knowledge that
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@innertalks (21097)
• Australia
27 Jun 18
Yes, there is certainly a wonderful power in our emotions as Sananda's article shows us too.
Sananda said that these forces can help to raise up our of our own dark bottle, to one filled with the champaign of happiness instead.
Our feelings, our emotions, and our sensations, all empower us to do this, powering us upwards to be our real selves, and so to be all of ourselves, and not to neglect any part of ourselves.
We have an emotional body with which we experience different energies of emotion, is love merely an emotion too, though, or is it really far more than just that?
Love is the rainbow and each emotion, in its way, is one of the colours of that rainbow, and yet if you add all of the colours together, you will not obtain the rainbow, as it also has something intangible about it, which is not in any of the individual colours.
It has the light of God in it which shines through it, giving splendour to every colour (or emotion) within itself.
@innertalks (21097)
• Australia
27 Jun 18
@Starmaiden Thanks. That's very nicely put, and I think that too, and I agree with that too.
Some people think that love is merely an emotion, but I, like you, have always thought that it was, "the very essence of our being" too, which powers us, into being who we are. I believe that the energy of love is behind every other type of energy.
(That quote was a typo, as I meant to write exactly what you wrote, but I left it like that because it is also true too, I guess)
God is love, and love is God, and all energy ultimately comes from God, and is coming from the power of God loving.
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@Starmaiden (9311)
• Canada
27 Jun 18
@innertalks Love is Who We Are. It is the essence of our very being. Love is not an emotion but it is felt 'in' the emotional body.
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@Shiva49 (26236)
• Singapore
29 Jun 18
Feelings change with our reality.
As you know Steve, I keep an open mind. What I had cherished earlier may not appeal to me now.
I am not the same person I was years ago though the fundamentals remain the same.
I remain circumspect but I believe in people to start with.
Emotions and feelings should not be an end by themselves.
We should delve into the reality as otherwise, we can end up as emotional fools!
Being a realist has helped me to find balance.
I have learned that letting go helps detach myself from a transient world - siva
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@innertalks (21097)
• Australia
30 Jun 18
Yes, thanks siva, feelings, thoughts, attitudes, emotions, are all changeable.
And yet, love always finds a way past emotional pulls away from itself, and takes you via itself past all emotions to the eternal truth of being, that we can all experience, of which, emotions, and experiences, and thoughts, and feelings, etc. are mere steps on our paths, along the way.
Yes, the steps along the way are not to be taken as ends by themselves.
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@Shiva49 (26236)
• Singapore
30 Jun 18
@innertalks Yes, emotions can be fleeting and may not reflect our true, deeper, inner self.
When love drives our experience, then it gives the right and complete perspective - siva
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@dgobucks226 (34445)
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14 Jul 18
I think both emotions and life experiences go hand and hand. Why try to separate them? I think they feed off each other. Feeling good about your accomplishments, the life path you choose, and the memories you create, can elicit a multitude of emotions, some good, some bad. It is your picture to paint, why not make it as complete as you possibly can, blending all the colors into our unique personal journey?
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@innertalks (21097)
• Australia
15 Jul 18
Yes, nicely said, and yet if we do separate things, and savour each one separately too, we can feel things in isolation perhaps more intensely too at times.
An emotion is an experience all of itself at times as well.
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@innertalks (21097)
• Australia
15 Jul 18
@dgobucks226 Yes, it was a good thoughtful response. Thanks.
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@dgobucks226 (34445)
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15 Jul 18
@innertalks Thanks Steve! Glad you understood where I was coming from in my response.
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@innertalks (21097)
• Australia
27 Jun 18
Yes, feelings certainly do provide us with the icing on life's cake, and without such feelings, life might be fairly bland, and boring, I guess too.
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