{"id":2236,"date":"2010-05-03T07:01:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T07:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2010\/05\/build-a-guesthouse-for-your-fe.html"},"modified":"2010-05-03T07:01:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T07:01:12","slug":"build-a-guesthouse-for-your-fe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2010\/05\/build-a-guesthouse-for-your-fe.html","title":{"rendered":"Build a Guesthouse for Your Feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the chapters in “The Pocket Therapist”<\/a> is “Build a Guesthouse for Your Feelings.” Ironically, a talented artist I know, Anya Getter<\/a>, titled her piece, “A Guesthouse,” and sent a photo of it to me.<\/em><\/p>\n


\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is the entry from the book, and her lovely artwork.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"guesthouse<\/span>“This being human is a guest-house,” wrote the 13th century Sufi poet, Rumi. “Every morning a new arrival, a joy, a depression, a meanness …Welcome and entertain them all!”<\/p>\n

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I love that. <\/p>\n

Because you can always kick them out! <\/p>\n

Let’s say feelings are like any other visitors in that, like fish, they smell after three days. You welcome them, set out a cheese plate, learn a thing or two from them–like from which neighborhood of your brain they come from … the childhood-scars region, the obsessive-compulsive vicinity, or the paranoia district–and then after a night or two, you tell them to hit the road. <\/p>\n

It’s a win-win situation!<\/p>\n

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