Not all physical sensations are from a physical place. They are quite often from the emotional body. Let me give you an example:
You know that sinking feeling you might get when you think of someone who might be in trouble?
Or that feeling of butterflies right before you have to do public speaking?
What about the sensation of tightness in your chest and you feel like you are going to have a panic attack?
Have you ever had a friend that made me so frustrated you could feel all tight across the chest and hot flushes going up the neck and face?
Do you ever experience times in social situations when you feel totally drained?
I have learned how to work with my “felt sense” – that part of me that feels everything. If you can learn to understand the “language” of your body, talking to you and relaying your emotional body, then you can learn how to let it guide you.
So what can you do to start becoming aware of your emotional guidance system?
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- Start by making a choice to become more aware of how your day to day emotions feel in the physical body.
You can practice this by starting on the GOOD FEELING emotions. So, when you are happy, stop for a moment and ask yourself “where am I feeling happy in my body the most?”
Then when you are feeling sad, ask yourself “where am I feeling most sad in my body?”
This isn’t hard to do, but may take some practice before you feel confident identifying the feeling area. - Once you can identify the feeling you are feeling and where it sits in the body, you can ask why it is there. Only do this for the negative emotions, or the ones that feel more difficult. This way you can almost “make friends” with them, and they wont seem so heavy or oppressive.
- Start by making a choice to become more aware of how your day to day emotions feel in the physical body.
With practice, you will start to recognise the feeling of the emotion in your body, long before you recognise it in your brain! Then you can make decisions from this.
Invited out with a friend, and you feel heavy in your belly?
Then simply decline with grace, as your body has said “the timing is not right on this one today”.Offered a promotion at work but you feel immediately tight in your chest? Possibly this is your usual response of panic setting in (self-sabotage?), and you need to work on your self-confidence?
(Book in an energy clearing session to correct this).
Can you imagine how more genuine and heart-centred, your life will become when you learn how to listen to your emotional feedback system, and live from this centre?
If you approach life from your head too much, you may over-think – and think things that aren’t actually there! But if you go from your “feeling sense” you will never go wrong. You will free yourself of negativity and drama, and allow peace and good feeling to grow!
