Everything that we do, from the moment we wake up right up until we fall asleep, every retail purchase we make, every decision we grapple with, every event/activity that gets entered into our diaries is in the anticipation, expectation & promise of one thing, and one thing only: of how it will ultimately make us feel.
And yet, we rarely have any time, energy or resources to address that all important question; probably the only real question we need to address everyday; how am I feeling?
Every day we are robbed of an important gift which helps us to feel great no matter what- the gift of being able to choose how we would like to feel at any given moment in time.
Who robs us?
They can be seen as the 3 sidekicks of the internal resistance mafia:
1. Sidekick no. 1
Stress
2. Sidekick No. 2
Frustration
3. Sidekick No. 3
Despair
But these 3 sidekicks are just following the boss's orders.
Fear.
And what is Fear really?
Isn't it just an absence of connection with the truth.
A belief that we are not going to be safe.
And what is the truth?
The quickest way to know this & experience it first hand is to get in touch with our feelings, even negative emotions. Embodying them instead of running away from them allows us to become aware of one central irrefutable fact: We are a lot more than just our passing thoughts.
But it is not easy to do this in our moments of panic. Because there is a survival instinct that all fear triggers within our body.
There is a fight or flight response activated and expecting to choose meditation in those moments is like being chased by a lion and then someone running alongside with you asking you to sit down in a lotus position and stay calm!!!
What does make it easy is a clearing this fight or flight trigger while we are in it.
Attached is a quick video on a negative emotion clearing technique called Tapping.
Tap on the points in the diagram below & follow along.
