In that last page we talked about that it’s our FEELings that are our guidance to joyfully creating something better and changing what we care about. These feelings I’m talking about are much more than just emotions – they’re ALL the feelings in the picture above, that are part of our Inner Guidance system and we’ll start talking about them in detail shortly.
They are our “instruction manual” that take the struggle out of life. It’s what brings happiness and makes it possible to have peace of mind no matter what’s going on around us. It’s quite different to the five senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch – these five Feels are our Inner Guidance system.
We can’t copy someone else’s way of feeling this inner guidance – other peoples’ guidance system is of no use to us whatsoever in the happiness or creating department.
If you’ve ever had that “not enough” feeling – not good enough, not smart enough, not loveable enough – it’s almost certainly had it’s root cause in trying to copy someone else. We were taught to copy our parents, our teachers, our peers and drawn to copy people we admire, but copying the way someone else does their Inner Guidance system – THAT’s a dramatic source of insecurity and because it doesn’t work, it causes us to feel like we’ve failed or can’t do it or that we’re powerless.
We can’t be taught this in the regular way of learning knowledge either, because it’s an experiential thing. It’s our INNER Guidance system and can only be found INSIDE us.
When I talk about these Feels more extensively in subsequent pages, some of them will resonate with you and some won’t and that’s perfectly normal because we all experience our own unique combination of those five ways of feeling.
This Photo reminds me of the expansive joy that I experienced when I realized that it’s possible to joyfully create something better on a larger world level too – even if we never leave our neighborhood or march in a protest. This painting is by the very talented Catherine Clark Dowden, artist, art teacher and part of our lovely community of horse lovers from Queensland.
