Now we’re going to add a more conscious awareness of the thoughts and ideas of Mental Feel to the Physical, Emotional and Energy Feels that you may OR MAY NOT have experienced in the previous inner awareness exercises. (Remember that we’re all unique with unique strengths and talents and that not all these Feels will be pertinent to you?)
We’re going to particularly focus on exploring how you personally may or may not be experiencing your Mental Feel in your connection to others. Just like before, you can do this right now while you’re reading.
While you’re reading, slow down and read the following words slowly and deliberately.
Pay gentle attention to your OUTWARD breath for a few breaths.
That’s it… feel me smiling… reading sloooowwww…. and at the same time notice the way that the lower part of your ribs move on that outward breath – the way that the ribs just kind of squash the air from your lungs. And you’re not doing that on purpose, you’re just smiling a little bit and noticing for one breath…
… and another breath…
… and another breath…
Still with your gentle attention on your outward breath, notice what changes on the inside of you when you smile with your eyes just a little. Ahhh even after three exercises like this, you can still feel the difference with the smile hey? Just notice the effect of that smileyness for a breath.
… and another breath…
… and another breath…
Here inside you is a place of awareness where you can feel for yourself whether the thoughts and ideas of Mental Feel are a part of your unique way of feeling…
- Where you can notice if worries or negative thoughts or catastrophizing imagination are part of your natural talent for Feel AND part of your experience of connection with others…
- Where you can practice the smiley curiosity and ALLOW those thoughts and ideas and worries to flow, guiding you about yourself or others.
- Where you can smile a little, observing them, observing the patterns of them, observing the feelings brought up by them, always open to the idea that they may or may not be yours, that they may be part of your connection to others
- And that when you get the right answer, when you understand what to know or do about yourself or others, “pfft!” that worry is just gone.
Whether that understanding flows now.
Or later.
Knowing that the answer or the understanding will come when the time is perfect.
Ahhhh and smiling for just another breath…
… and another breath…
… and another breath…
Ahhhh…
Have a wriggle and a stretch and maybe even a little walk around the room, feeling the way that your feet are flexing on the floor or the ground as you walk.
If anything comes up that you have a question about, come join one of our free monthly seminars – I’ve put a link to info about them under the picture below.
Photo: Pam Wright finds her inner quietness in her connection with nature, on the beach, where she took this photo of her gorgeous Samoyed Bear. She’s a brilliant stress and trauma specialist and dear friend from Venus Bay in Victoria.
