While Self - Reflecting one day I realized how often I try to run away from my uncomfortable feelings.
T.V. and movie binging, overeating, nicotine, over sleeping, my list goes on and on.
What if? What if I could just be with these feelings of sadness, grief and despair? What if, in these moments of feeling truly unlovable, I could simply hold myself in the highest, most compassionate embrace.
NOT to try to fix it but to simply hold space for it.
I can answer this "What if" right here and now.
These feelings do eventually dissolve and even better, instead of being stuffed down into your tissues, only to rear their ugly heads later on in the form of metal and/or physical health issues. You have exposed them to your consciousness, your light. You have acknowledged them.
The one question of all time that has been asked over and over again in various forms.
"What do people really want?"
1. To be listened to
2. To be understood
3. to be regarded (acknowledged)
What if I could truly love myself at the most precise moment when I am feeling unlovable?
The answer is that this would shake up, unearth and dismantle the false belief that "I am unworthy."
An exercise in Feeling the discomfort:
Do a mental scan of where this feeling may have located itself in your body.
Is it in my chest? My heart area?
My neck?
Use your breath to reach this area. Breathe into it. Focus on the area without trying to heal or judge. Just be with it. You may want to cry, please do. Allow it to release itself, by itself.
Recommended books would be The Presence Process by Michael Brown, videos and lectures by Eckhart Tolle and many others.
