I would really appreciate knowing your answer to this “simple” question.
Would you click reply… and let me know?
Why? Because Cathy and I are focusing-in on the emotions that matter to our engaged members.
It’s a question that really would be simple if it were not for traumas, blocks, and stresses. Often we know how we DON’T want to feel – anxious, worried, grumpy, pressured, or scared.
Getting to how we DO want to feel can be a challenge.
You’re invited to pause, breathe, tap a bit, and ask yourself:
How would I like to feel more often… now and in the months to come… that would really enhance my life?
…and if you need help, reply and let me know that, too.
So far the replies from those who have gotten back to me with one choice are across a beautiful map of possibilities. Here they are with the count next to them:
If you’re open to it, say (a) and (b) out loud each in turn with a pause to feel for the level of feeling. How would you rate 0-10 as “how I feel/think (blended)” (0 not at ALL - not an inkling, 10=totally in body and mind)
a. I am loved.
b. I feel loved.
(We can all do this. It’s designed to guess how much of a gap there is between what is real in the world and in the emotions of others, and how much we’re letting in and allowing ourselves to feel without suppression.)
I am finding that each time I come to this question my answer is similar to my first but slightly different. I am really resonating with ‘Held’ today. Which is linked to my initial one of feeling ‘Sure’ and ‘Connected’ to myself. ‘Resourced’. ‘Caring - for self’. They are all linked and feel similar but different words come up.
Held. A powerful relationship with ourselves when we embody the kind of holding that helps us regulate, feel loved, that there’s compassion present, caring, willingness…