This is all about giving space to feel.
I'm hoping that just me accompanying you in your presence,
Whether watching the video or hearing it,
That you can receive some permission to just feel what you're feeling right now.
You might not even know.
Often I will say to a client,
How are you feeling?
And they'll say,
I don't know.
Because you see,
In the West we're so sort of base,
Lopsided towards the intellect,
Away from the heart,
That many of us are just really quite numb.
Even women are quite numb.
Yeah,
And the thing about this numbness is it makes us sort of stupid.
I hate to say it,
But it,
You know,
Our emotions and feelings and intuitions give us a lot of information that makes us smarter and well-equipped for this world than just our intellects.
It's like often our feelings and emotions and intuitions will give us things that are sort of underneath the radar,
That they're not showing up on the screen,
But they're there.
And if we're in touch with our emotions and feelings,
It can help us be more equipped to live in this world.
It's just like,
You know,
We get,
We all get senses about people when we meet them,
Or a sense of,
You know,
Which party to go to,
Or which group to hang out with.
There are a lot of,
A lot of things that,
When we are open to our feelings and emotions and intuitions,
They give us data.
Yeah.
So this video is a little rambling,
But I'm partly part of the purpose to give you more permission to just feel.
So you become smarter.
It's true.
It's true.
So that's why I'm sort of pausing a lot,
Because sometimes emotions are,
They get pushed down.
It's sort of like sometimes parts of ourselves are being pushed down to sort of like the bottom of the ocean.
We need to just be a little still,
Give a little space for these emotions and feelings to rise up from our depths,
So we can feel them,
And have our intelligence be enhanced,
And have our personal power being enhanced,
Because these emotions that we've repressed are,
They're like split off parts,
And it's sort of like a pie.
If you think of a pie with pieces cut out of it,
It's not much of a pie left.
You know,
Sometimes we're repressing so much,
We've got like one piece of the pie left,
And we're repressing 90%.
Yeah,
But you want all the pieces of the pie.
You want your full deck.
Really,
The way to do it is to just give yourself space to feel.
I mean,
You could sit every day for 20 minutes just to be open to feel,
And you might find that tears come up,
Sorrow comes up,
Or maybe waves of anger,
Or you may have to wait a bit.
Maybe it will seem that nothing's happening,
But it's sort of like our emotions we've pushed down,
The parts of ourselves we've pushed down,
They're a bit like a scared child,
You know,
So you have to be patient with scared children.
We made them unwelcome,
Basically.
These feelings and emotions and the awareness that was inside them,
We made them unwelcome,
Pushed them away,
So they're not sure that it's really okay that they can come back.
So you might have to sit,
You know,
For a while,
Just every day,
20 minutes or so,
Just sit,
Not doing anything,
Just sitting,
Being present with yourself,
Noticing what's going on with you,
And just see what happens,
See if anything rises up.
You might learn quite a lot about yourself.
Yeah,
I mean,
If your will is really set that way,
If you're really interested in recovering lost aspects of yourself,
You will start to feel more.
You might be surprised,
And have patience,
Because when this material comes up after it's been repressed for a long time,
Sometimes it's not very pretty,
You know.
I think we might,
You know,
It might be uncomfortable feelings,
But if you just are with them,
You know,
Maybe write them out.
Don't act out on them,
Just be with them.
They'll integrate in,
And you'll become wiser,
More powerful,
Smarter,
Just enhanced.
Yeah,
I've done this a lot.
Yeah,
Okay,
Bless your heart.
