Does this sound familiar?
“If I can just figure it all out, then I’ll be okay.”
“Then I’ll be safe.”
“Then I can figure out a way to be happy.”
In theory, it doesn’t sound like such a bad idea. You DO need to know what’s going on; to be aware.
But awareness comes from the heart as well as the head. They’re both equally important.
Doesn’t seem like it, though. We’ve been taught and conditioned – practically since birth – to focus on our thoughts and to ignore our feelings.
When you shut out your feelings, your begin to build walls around your heart.
As you come to believe one of the Big Lies of society – “Feelings are bad and wrong and you must do everything you can to shut them out and lock them away”… then your heart appears to wither like a plant denied water.
Remember the one-hundred-year-old classic by James Allen – “As A Man Thinketh”? If you haven’t read it, the whole book can be summed up in one sentence – Thoughts create reality.
Which isn’t such a bad...