Feelings... Nothing More than Feelings.

            When I think of the cheesiest song you can imagine, I often think of "Feelings." But when I actually break down the words and look at them spiritually, I think the writer may have had a good point. 

            In matters of love and work and anger and even joy, how long does one really hold on to his/her feelings. AND... the big AND is that these ephemeral, fleeting feelings usually take you to a place of deep healing and retrospect you needed to get to in your next step on your path toward wherever you're going toward in life and spiritually. I know they have in my world. 

            Granted all feelings are different. Some are skin deep, some go down to the depths of your being and stick in your crawl for a long time until you deal with them in counseling or with a forgiveness coach. But either way, the feelings change. They morf into something different daily. This shows us that they are moving, changing things.

            I like a story my pastor told yesterday about a nonbelieving brain surgeon.  He was asked about believing in spirituality. The brain surgeon  said, "When I operate on a brain, I don't see spirit."

            The wise man answered, "When you operate on a brain, do you see a thought? Surely you believe thoughts exist." 

            I guess seeing a thought would be the same as seeing a feeling. Who doesn't believe a feeling exists? Yet, there is no evidence of one in matter or form.  They change and effect matter as something tangible. 

            When you have a feeling, the best thing to do is to sit with it. Figure out where its coming from. Is it an old feeling that has come up from a trigger that happened recently. Or are you sitting on a feeling that happened from an action someone did or an action that happened recently? When you discover what kind of feeling you have, the next thing to do is to take it to God or Spirit.

            Let's face it. We are hopelessly deficient in changing our minds and feelings. We can talk ourselves out of most things, but they have a way of staying somewhere in our subconscious mind and in our body. God, however, has a way of working spiritual, healing powers in your life to move you forward through your pain and into liberation, if you are willing to feel what is there and work through it. 

            If someone leaves your life, trust me, you are not just feeling the departure of that person. You are feeling every abandonment issue from your entire life. So, it would be best to take the time to work through it now, before it bites you in the ass again.

            I'm telling you this as a person who has spent 51 years looking at my pretty broken life and wondering if I could ever be whole. I took every opportunity to look deeply into my past and fit the pieces together, no matter how hard it was. One day I woke up and I realized I was on the way to normal.

            You can do it too. One step at a time. One feeling at a time. With God's help, and maybe the help of a someone who understands the process...