I am not friends with my feelings, although I have made progress in the past 15 years. Some are easy to identify and deal with, but some are still quite elusive. I feel quite lost when my feelings are all over the place and even ashamed, because I don't know how to control them.
But, that's the work of the brain with beliefs on top of beliefs that being angry is not o.k., feeling sadness needs to be remedied right away or as fast as possible, guilt is chased with extra acts of kindness and generosity, shame makes us run for the hills because it's impossible to live with it.
And boredom is the worst of all. The brain will do anything to get you out of feeling this one.
Yet, there's always something to learn out of feelings and boredom is often the predecessor of imagination at play. If we let it happen. But we don't. Not in this day and age when there is so much to watch, listen, read and play. Our poor senses don't have much time to rest.
Sitting still without a purpose doesn't happen unless it's done on purpose and we call it meditation. Even then, the brain doesn't shut up. He'll make you believe there's so much to do and time is running out.
Our computerized devices have become a second brain with all sorts of information at the fingertips that keep us occupied, entertained, immobile, hypnotized, anxious, hooked on these mind games.
Unplug. Take a deep breath. Relax the jaw. Feel your muscles around the body. Find that tension. Identify the feeling and just sit with it. You don't have to do a thing about it but recognize, yes, I'm feeling this. Give that feeling some room to exist. And give your brain a minivacation for the time being. Your body will be super grateful to you.
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