Feelings: A Curse or a Blessing?

Do you know there is a fundamental misunderstanding that each and every one of us has every day?  And do you know that this misunderstanding is responsible for a major part of our stress and preoccupation?  It is such a simple and common misunderstanding, but most of us fail to recognize it in ourselves and in others.  What is this misunderstanding?  We erroneously believe a good part of the time that our feelings are created from something other than thought.  For example, we may believe that a deadline is causing us stress, the traffic is making us upset, our spouse is bothering us, or that the sun makes us feel good.  

When we don’t recognize our feelings as coming from thought, we attribute our feelings to something in the outside world, e.g. the deadline, the traffic, our spouse, the weather.  Often we keep thinking about what we believe is causing our feelings.  This thinking may generate even more stress, upset, or preoccupation. We may see our feelings, especially our painful ones, as a curse imposed on us from the outside. Rather, when we understand the connection between thought and feelings, we will see our feelings as a blessing, tipping us off to their source within and reminding us that’s where they always and only come from.

As we learn about the 3 Principles of Thought, Consciousness, and Mind we are reminded of the fact that we live exclusively in a world of our own thinking.  We also learn that each and every thought we have creates a feeling.  As we realize this for ourselves, we have more and more moments of actually experiencing the truth of this fact.  This realization corrects the misunderstanding that our feelings are coming from anything other that thought.  It allows us to be fully accountable for our feelings rather than blaming them on someone or something else.

It is humbling to realize that all of us, with no exception, get lost in those moments when we misunderstand where our feelings are coming from and act as if the world is causing our feeling.  But it is up-lifting to learn that we all operate exactly the same way and that we can all become more aware that we live in a thought-created world.  Learning more about the thought-feeling connection is a short cut to well-being.  Do you think you can now see your feelings as the blessing that they are?