Over, I’d say, the last 30 years I’ve increasingly realized that we humans have a huge tendency to NOT understand our “feelings.” There are many reasons for this but one of them is a persistent albeit unspoken belief that we choose our feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Indeed, the same can be said about our “desires” though I suspect those too are but a type of feeling. Spend even a few moments contemplating the source of your feelings and desires and you’ll find they are almost always unbidden. We don’t choose to have them but we have them just the same. The only real choice we have concerning them is to either focus on them or not. In the Western world very few folks understand this reality.
More than a Feeling
More than a Feeling
More than a Feeling
Over, I’d say, the last 30 years I’ve increasingly realized that we humans have a huge tendency to NOT understand our “feelings.” There are many reasons for this but one of them is a persistent albeit unspoken belief that we choose our feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Indeed, the same can be said about our “desires” though I suspect those too are but a type of feeling. Spend even a few moments contemplating the source of your feelings and desires and you’ll find they are almost always unbidden. We don’t choose to have them but we have them just the same. The only real choice we have concerning them is to either focus on them or not. In the Western world very few folks understand this reality.