{"id":219,"date":"2014-10-12T14:02:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T14:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/sassyspirit\/?p=219"},"modified":"2014-10-12T14:02:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T14:02:15","slug":"what-are-you-afraid-to-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/sassyspirit\/2014\/10\/what-are-you-afraid-to-feel.html","title":{"rendered":"What are you afraid to feel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fear<br \/>\nAnger<br \/>\nConfusion<br \/>\nWrong<br \/>\nBad<br \/>\nStupid<br \/>\nMean<br \/>\nSelfish<br \/>\nIncompetent<br \/>\nCrazy<br \/>\nWeird<\/p>\n<p>Do you avoid these? What if your fear of feeling them was actually controlling you? What if you could be aware you don&#8217;t like to feel them, but you do? That you would like to feel the opposite. What the opposite might technically be the polar extreme of the other, but to you, it&#8217;s different.<\/p>\n<p>Like anger versus peace.<br \/>\nAre you numbing yourself so you don&#8217;t feel any of these?<br \/>\nWhy?<br \/>\nIs it the end of the world to feel something?<br \/>\nOnce felt, could it move on through you and out of your being?<\/p>\n<p>Were you ever afraid to express emotion as a kid?\u00a0 Did someone make you wrong for your feelings?\u00a0 Were you made to feel there are certain safe emotions?\u00a0 Did you think you always had to be happy?\u00a0 Or was there only happy, sad, and mad?\u00a0 Are you cut off from your emotions where you can&#8217;t really put a name to them, but you just feel off?\u00a0 Acknowledging them doesn&#8217;t solidify them, making them real, but rather frees them.\u00a0 Once you know what you feel, you can decide whether you want to keep that emotion or not?\u00a0 Could you actually shift your emotion to a more positive one?\u00a0 What are your\u00a0vibe raisers once\u00a0you allow that stuck &#8220;bad&#8221; emotion to be heard?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written about mine before.\u00a0 Music, cooking, and getting dollied-up are three of mine.\u00a0 I also know that when I help others, I definitely raise my vibe too.\u00a0 As a life coach, I uplift, empower, and inspire.\u00a0 If I don&#8217;t raise my energy and feel\u00a0bad for my client or even a customer of Beach Body (which I sell and help peeps lose weight), I can&#8217;t help\u00a0anyone.\u00a0 If someone feels these emotions and I feel them as well, playing in the victim place, I can&#8217;t help anyone. From that space, it&#8217;s tight and small.\u00a0 If I can stay in my center and look at\u00a0higher consciousness where other possibilities are,\u00a0expansion happens.\u00a0 You can still be compassionate about someone&#8217;s woes and not get sucked into the\u00a0negative energy.\u00a0\u00a0I know with myself, it&#8217;s always the question&#8230;where&#8217;s my point of power?\u00a0\u00a0If I&#8217;m playing victim, be it with my kids or with circumstances, I have no power.\u00a0 But what do we always have the power to do?\u00a0 Think differently.<\/p>\n<p>We feel a crappy emotion or feeling.<\/p>\n<p>We get to choose how to feel after that.\u00a0 We get to shift.\u00a0 We get to ask&#8230;what do I want?\u00a0 What do\u00a0I really, truly want?\u00a0 What am I seeking?\u00a0 What am I looking for?\u00a0 What brings me peace?\u00a0 What brings me\u00a0joy?\u00a0 What brings me a feeling of love?\u00a0 Is it possible to decide to feel those. Try it.<\/p>\n<p>Think about peace.\u00a0 Can you feel it?\u00a0 Can you tap\u00a0 into peace?\u00a0 In that split second, you felt it.\u00a0 You see it can grow with focus and attention.\u00a0 So the next time you feel chaos within, anger, frustration, ask yourself where peace is within you.\u00a0 I find I&#8217;m often really seeking peace in any moment.\u00a0 That feeling of centeredness that flows with love in my soul unencumbered.\u00a0 Feelings and emotions are just telling us where we are at in the moment.\u00a0 They hold no power.\u00a0 We do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fear Anger Confusion Wrong Bad Stupid Mean Selfish Incompetent Crazy Weird Do you avoid these? What if your fear of feeling them was actually controlling you? What if you could be aware you don&#8217;t like to feel them, but you do? That you would like to feel the opposite. 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