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How sad. Nothing worse that having a party and no one showing up. I need to push the need for community on our support group.
At the gathering facebook page I tried to set up unit for us to share, but no one understands how to use “units”, even me. All we keep doing is leaving comments. My hope is that I can get people on the gathering and we can use the forum to communicate.
Hi, I am Lynda and I have some anxiety about the whole illness thing and about the financial impact for everyone. Trying to work on breathing.
We are excited to start this forum and supporting those who are having anxiety. Share how you are today.
Hey Kevin, I just had an idea. What if you wrote a letter to your future grandbaby, something that she could read when she is 30? Share with her who you are, and maybe some stories from your life. Tell her how much you love her and give her some of you life long wisdom you have picked up along the way. Let her know what this crazy time of life was like to live through. Focus outward, and you will shift your energy outward. “Where attention goes energy flows.”
Let me know what you think? And anyone else can try it as well.
Brett
Hi Everyone,
Jeff had a great question the other day. “If I am not my emotions” then what about positive emotions?” It’s true, how can I practice separating myself from my negative emotions, without that separating me from my positive emotions?
You are not your emotions. You have emotions, but you are so much more than what you are feeling. And again that does not mean you don’t have feeling or you ignore your feelings, discernment is all about not identifying with your feelings. If you want to control your feelings, and not have them control you, then you need to create some space between you and your feelings. Don’t identify you as your feelings. All that should make sense when we are talking about negative emotions. But the question Jeff raises is about positive emotions? The answer has to be the same. I am not controlled by my positive feelings either.
Addictions occur when we over identify with the positive feelings, food, money, sex, drugs, or alcohol can bring. When I am chasing the high or any positive feeling, it will control me, and I no longer control it.
I love feeling happy and just feeling good. There is no problem with good feelings, or feeling good. Discernment is about not letting any feeling, thought, or action define me. I have feelings, even good feelings, but I am not those feelings. I AM SOMETHING MORE. I am more than my feelings, I am more than my thoughts, I am more than any action or habit.
Had a good meditation today. Like yesterday I cheated! I shifted my consideration from “What if I am not my feelings?” to “What if today, I am more..?” More than my feelings, more than my body, more than my negative thoughts, more than my mistakes, more than my limits, more than my fingers, more than my breath. You get the idea.
As I was doing that I could feel more love and compassion for myself. I could feel free of my limitations, those things that are not me anyway. And what was the best was I started to pray for those who I don’t like, the people who deny there is a problem in the world. Because I could feel that they are more, than their limiting beliefs.
Brett
I think one of the most difficult things for me is the waiting game. Waiting for isolation protocols to end, waiting to be able to resume normal life, waiting to see if I can even get an antibody test and find out whether I have already had this covid-19 thing so I can stop worrying about getting it, Etc. It just seems like everything is on pause except for deadlines that life always imposes. Keep on waiting and no idea about when the waiting will end.
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