FEELINGS CANNOT BE DICTATED. You can tell a child not to be angry at someone, but that will not stop the anger. It will only teach a child to hide the anger and suppress the feelings, AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY, teach the child that feelings are wrong or bad. Feelings are important to us because they tell us what we like and don't like. I will say this over and over again. I may react to something differently than you do because my reaction (which comes from my feelings), comes from who I am. You may not like to swim and your feelings tell you so. I may love to swim and my feelings tell me so. Each person is unique. Each person's feelings come from the deepest part of the self, to tell us who we are and how we want to live our lives and what we want to do and who we want to be with. We must not let the mind or intellect tell us what to do, when it is contrary to how we feel. The intellect, when it is working at its best, is making decisions for us and for our good based on how we feel.
EXPRESSING OUR FEELINGS IS THE ONLY ROAD TO TRUE EMOTIONAL HEALTH AND TO A NEW AND BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF OURSELVES AND OTHERS.
If I told you have you could never go to the toilet because it was bad for you, what would happen? You would become backed up and sick and your body would become filled with poisons from your own waste. Eventually you would have to let go....or you would explode with all the accumulated waste.
Emotions must also be passed through the body. If they are not passed through the body, they clog all your systems and leave poisons everywhere. The body is not designed to hold onto feelings. The body is designed to process and release feelings. If we do not release and eliminate the waste that accumulates from feelings, we become diseased and crippled.
Our bodies become sick and do not function properly.
We are unable to think clearly and we become ill-functioning in the mind. When we are backed up emotionally, our thinking becomes extremely clouded and distorted, we do not know what is true and what is false, and we do not understand our own actions and thoughts. We are unable to grasp reality because we are looking at our life and our experience through the waste of accumulated emotions that have poisoned our minds and bodies.
Our old emotions are suppressed and cannot function properly. They become pressurized and eventually erupt inappropriately, usually at someone we love.
This is one of the most important truths that we can embrace, because we all carry so much pain from the past.
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and Howdy Mike...Snow melted as soon as it hit the ground...supposed to get back to warm stuff starting tomorrow...For a 3 day holiday weekend...it sucked big time...rain and cool cool cool...
Everthings ok on this end bud..same stuff..different day...nothing new..
How are things at the ranch?
You guys have a good night eh...
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When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, when the road you're trudging seems all uphill, when the funds are low and the debts are high, and you want to smile but you have to sigh, when care is pressing you down a bit - rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns. As everyone of us sometimes learns. And many a fellow turns about when he might have won had he stuck it out. Don't give up though the pace seems slow - you may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than it seems to a faint and faltering man; often the struggler has given up when he might have captured the victor's cup; and he learned too late when the night came down, how close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out - the silver tint of the clouds of doubt, and when you never can tell how close you are, it may be near when it seems afar; so stick to the fight when you're hardest hit - it's when things seem worst, you must not quit.
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geez phil, it's like you read my mind, really needed what you shared, been awhile since i felt like my higher power was paying any attention to my miserable little self , but you sure changed that! thanks!
Feelings don't want too many of those popping up at one time do we. Hey my freind how are things up there in the snow. Great I hope, all is good here.