Let your feelings guide you | Lifestyle

by AndrewGoodman

Where would we be without the press? Would our lives be in any way diminished if they didn't exist? Is being Pollyanna any kind of option for 21st century living? What is it that makes you feel bad when you read or hear about some terrible story in the press?

Most people understand negative emotions as a means of protecting us from harmful things; things which we believe subconsciously or consciously will not be good for us. Fear and disgust are two such emotions. But what about the emotions generated from our responses to life? What purpose do they serve?

They may be attributed little labels such as fear, embarrassment, anxiety, depression, loneliness, sadness etc, and have easily identifiable circumstances attached, but in essence they all feel pretty lousy. We also tend to take responsibility for our emotions, as they come from inside us, and we tend to associate the bad feelings with ourselves.

Humans are exceptional beings on the face of the earth, in that they have the ability to think outside the box. They have the ability to direct their thoughts in a creative manner that other animals do not share. When you focus on a subject, you are literally attracting the necessary components to create your object of focus. This is easy to see in the creation of say a house when conceived in the mind of an architect, but it applies to everything physical that you see, even planet earth (though that was a thought that we humans didn't come up with). Have you ever experienced thinking about a friend and then soon after serendipitously running into them? It seemed like a chance encounter, but was it really?

So what about emotions? Well, you can think of your emotions as a sort of sixth sense. Your subconscious is aware of all of your beliefs and your desires in life, and it uses this information as a benchmark against which your thoughts are measured. If they make the grade, you get good feelings as positive feedback, and if your thoughts don't make the grade, you get negative feedback in the form of negative emotion.

If you are focussing on something that you don't want to create, you are offered negative feeling to warn you to steer your thoughts in a better feeling direction. If you feel good, then you are using your free will to focus on things that you do want to attract into your life.

If you happened to read about someone being stabbed, and you consider that it could happen to you, as you don't want to attract that into your life, your subconscious will offer you negative emotions to try to divert your attention. It feels good to feel good, and not so good to think about being stabbed.

When someone says something to you which is unloving, causing you to think thoughts that you are in some way inappropriate, your subconscious knows that is not in line with what you really know to be the case, and so offers you negative emotion to tell you your thinking is off track. Similarly, if you think ill of others, it is not because they have done something wrong or bad, but because your thoughts of them do not sit well with what you really know them to be (that they are good), and so you are offered negative emotions as a guide that you're a little off course.

Essentially, if you can gravitate towards feeling good more often than not, you are on your path towards creating the things in your life that you want. When you dream of money, fame, beautiful lovers, wonderful houses, it all feels good. When you see yourself and others as good, you feel good. This is because you want to attract all of these things, and all of these characteristics of others into your life. Face reality if its something you want in your life. Your emotions will tell you if it is. It will feel good.

DISCLAIMER: This article is provided as information only and is not to be taken as financial advice.

Andrew is an expert in metaphysics and esoterics and contributes regularly to Happy News, the resource on the web for stories from the lighter side of life. Visit the site for Tips on how to ride out the recession.