LEARNING TO FEEL

Feelings are the builder of the body, the glue that holds body and soul together. Tender feelings make us open and vulnerable. In order not to get hurt, we prefer to close up and not to feel. This has the added advantage of making us stronger in our career, because we do not need to take our feelings or the feelings of others into consideration. Each time we suppress a feeling or do not express it in a suitable way, the generated energy solidifies into muscle tensions. Eventually, this leads to widespread muscle armoring, a permanent state of muscle contractions. This closes off the circulation of blood, lymph, bio-energy and, equally important, the flow of feeling energies. Once we are in an armored condition, we simply cannot feel any more even when we want to. This applies especially to the tender feelings in the heart and all over the body. This is a great loss. Our conscious control is then out of touch with the body, with its needs, its wisdom and with the pleasure it could give us. We are equally out of touch with the requirements of others, with the forces of nature and with our higher guidance. Everything is wrong if we are out of touch with ourselves and with everyone and everything else, and we have to rely exclusively on our ego-controlled mind. In order to heal our emotions we need to:

- 'let go' - release the accumulated negative emotions and associated tension
- become aware again how we feel and express our emotions appropriately
- learn feeling good about ourselves as well as others and generate positive  
  feelings