Speaker 0 00:00:00 Welcome to the Guide Within podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Jacqueline, Senator, and we'll be discussing consciousness, spirituality, and integrative health. I look forward to sharing these topics with you, so stay tuned.
Speaker 0 00:01:06 Welcome to the Guide Within podcast. This episode is on feelings. When we begin to talk about feelings, some of us already put up a block. We're not used to talking about them. It's odd because we walk around asking people, how are you feeling? And we don't really expect to get an authentic answer. When we ask someone that question, we'll get the typical answer from people, something like, I'm fine, good, how are you? Whether they feel that way or not. What I want to talk about today when we talk about feelings is to look at what it means to have feelings. What is it that we are expecting from ourselves? When we look at our feelings, what is feeling? Feelings are defined as a self-contained, phenomenal experience that each individual is the owner of. Your feelings are your own. No one can tell you how you're feeling.
Speaker 0 00:02:18 Truly, they can project that information onto you, but it doesn't mean that it's true. We can feel certain things and not be aware of our feelings if we've been in some way told not to feel those feelings, but we can't help them. Feelings are different from emotions. Feelings are what we give to our emotions, and emotions are the labels that we share when we talk about our feeling most of the time. And that means that the feelings are not always represented truthfully. And our emotions are really a way for us to communicate about how we are interacting with the world. Our feelings are much deeper than our emotions. We can feel variety of things, and we may acquire a knowledge, and that will give us a label that we can say, I'm feeling these emotions right? I'm getting angry, upset, fearful. But feelings aren't always that easy to label as emotions. Feelings are much deeper. They come from a place that is giving us a sense of knowledge, not just what we are experience in the moment, but it reflects back to us what we are carrying and how we are looking at the world as well. Because that inner world that we carry helps to give us a certain way of looking at the world, and that's a perception that we have that's uniquely our own. This can influence how we feel in the world.
Speaker 0 00:04:09 When we ask the question how it is that we feel, we have to think about where that information, where are we getting this sense? How is it coming to us? Is it something that we feel triggered by? Is it, is it something that we need to pay attention to? Is it something that's giving us information about ourselves? Now, as we walk through a day, we can have many different feelings. Some of those feelings may come up because we're processing some interaction that we've had that's now coming to the surface and we're making use of the time, and we have a feeling about it that will rise. Now, this is information that's great and it, it can be wonderful depending on what type of feeling you have. It can also be very distracting if you're supposed to be focused on say, another task. But we don't want to suppress our feelings. So the practice that we always want to be in is witnessing how we're feeling, checking in with ourselves, but then also making time to decompress and to witness the emotions that we might not have time for when we're busy or when we're obligated to be of service in some way that doesn't permit us to have those feelings.
Speaker 0 00:05:51 So good practice is to daily, as you know, know, we wash off the day we, we get ready for tucking ourselves in for a good night's rest. It's good in that timeframe to give ourselves a little bit of room to check in and see how we're feeling and to look and see if there's something we can do with that knowledge, because sometimes our feelings are rising up and it's a call for action for us to do something better for ourselves or to help another, or as a warning signal even to step back and not do. But in order for us to value that knowledge that comes to us this way, we have to make time to listen to it. Now, there are things where you might have feelings and it can be confusing because you don't seem to be able to link how you're feeling to anything that's directly connected to you.
Speaker 0 00:07:00 And this happens when we become very open, and the phenomenon is as though we are picking up and having feelings about things that are in the world. We can see this if we've watched a news cycle or we've taken a topic from something that's really close to our hearts, and we can have very strong feelings and emotions about this so much that we do wanna make a change, but maybe feel we can't know how to begin. But still having those emotions are valuable. It's also valuable to hold them in a way where you can see them and then not allow them to rule from the shadows. If you look at how you're feeling, you can always take the steps that are needed, right? If you're feeling very low, the energy is not, you know, feeling very much support. This is a good time to reach out and to ask for that help.
Speaker 0 00:08:02 If you're feeling, you know, emotions because of what you see in the world, and yet you don't feel you have the right to complain because everything else is good, those are still valid feelings and it's important to get support to talk about them. Sometimes sitting with a good friend or a therapist can help you just by being with you as you witnessed the feelings you have. It's not that we're meant to understand everything we feel immediately, but we can find knowledge within those feelings that we cannot find in any other way. They're very valuable. So I would also ask that when you are listening to yourself, that you take the advantage of making yourself feel good because there are ways that you, you know, uniquely how to make yourself feel great. Take those steps, make yourself feel wonderful, and if you need more support, reach out for it. Because if there's one thing, we know our feelings are valuable and they're uniquely our own, so no one will know how we're feeling unless we communicate it to others. Open up and be willing to share how you feel. It's something that will be fruitful in the end. Thank you very much for listening today. If you need more support, please feel free to reach out. Wishing you the very best feelings <unk>.
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