Your Body Feels, Your Mind Comments - Grasshopper

“Your body feels your life; your mind reports on those feelings,” so said The Grasshopper.

Your body feels every hour of every day. There’s no vacation from feeling. You feel as much in your sleep as you do when you’re awake. So, know for sure that it’s your body living your life, not your mind.

Your mind is just commenting on your feelings. It’s attempting to put context to what you’re sensing. But, often, those reports don’t make sense because you can’t put feelings into words.

Your mind attempts to put your feelings into a knowable box called, “This means that.” The problem is that words have different feelings to different people. So, “this means that” only applies to people who think and feel like you. That’s a small percentage of the planet.

If you find yourself explaining yourself a lot, you’re not feeling. You’re covering over your feelings with a bevy of words that are meaningless.

We tend to want to get away from our feelings and we think explaining them will make that happen. It won’t. If you could explain feelings away, you’d never have another sad day.

The message is this: Feel your feelings more often than you do.

Here’s how: Sit with a feeling. Don’t attempt to figure it out or explain it away. Just notice where that feeling lives in your body and stay with it without any commentary.

 

This practice metabolizes those feelings and sends them on their merry way, much quicker than if you try explaining them away.

Looking to get out of a mental bind? Pay more attention to your body than your mind.

All the best,