Are you choosing the easy way to change or the hard way?

Tips to help make your life easier.

Being honest about what you're feeling is the first step to opening up to your feeling self.

Would you rather learn to meditate and choose differently or wait for crises in your life to force you to change?

Have you ever woken up and even before you opened your eyes, realized you were feeling unhappy? It’s like something happened between the time you knocked off and fell asleep to the time you got out of bed and now your mood is right off. So, you try to shrug it off. After all, there’s lots of things you have to get done that day and there’s lots of other things you have think about. Yet, the feeling that something is off keeps following you. Maybe you start to get more easily frustrated and find yourself with waves of anger as you have to deal with everything. Maybe you snap at others because your patience is a little thinner. Maybe you get overwhelmed by things not going your way and the feeling of being imposed upon almost overwhelms you. And it just keeps going and going and going. Maybe you wake up the next day feeling better, maybe you take some time to yourself and start to feel better, but maybe you find this “funk” you’re in dragging on for hours, days, weeks or even months. Maybe it eventually builds into depression, elevated anxiety or poor anger management. Maybe it even keeps building over years of not being resolved into a mental breakdown, burnout or serious health issues.

Don't be afraid of what you are feeling - every feeling you have is another piece of the bigger picture of all that you are.

Why can these small, seemingly insignificant “bad moods” and “off days” drag on and on and affect your life so much? Because we are not just hard-working, bill-paying, family-raising human beings that have to push and power through the whims of the universe and the feeling that life is a struggle and everything is working against us. Every human being has a feeling self. Not just emotions, which can be heavily influenced by the mind, but an actual presence, if you want to call it that, of a feeling self that is just as real, just as alive and just as impactful as the body and the mind. Most people try to ignore it. It’s scary to face the feeling self. It’s uncontrollable and it shows us things that we may not feel ready to see. But if you keep trying to ignore it, it’s like trying to ignore the water level rising in a boat. You can ignore it for a while, but eventually the boat will sink without you finding a way to bail the water and keep it out.

It doesn't matter how you do it, all that matters is that you find ways to observe, experience and learn from the flow of feelings constantly moving through you.

Meditation is one of the many ways you can open up to, experience and learn from the feeling self. You don’t have to sit cross-legged with the lights down saying, “Ohhhm,” and counting breaths. You can just let yourself have consistent time every day quietly with yourself. Maybe you immerse yourself in nature, maybe you daydream or use your imagination, maybe you reflect and question events and ideas inside of you. Maybe you listen to music or just let your thoughts drift without any interference and observe feelings, insights and awareness as they come up. There are limitless ways to meditate. It’s the easiest thing you’ll ever do. But if you don’t let yourself make it a priority because, after all, there’s always things you could be doing, ought to be doing, would rather be doing, just realize that nothing is going to reduce the rising water levels in your life with you starting to make different choices. It's a lot harder to try to save a sinking ship than it is to learn to maintain one that has just taken on a bit too much water. How long are you willing to wait?

The more in tune you are with your feeling self, the more you open up to the unlimited awareness that exists in your self. And then, anything is possible. You can easily start making different choices.

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To learn more about this topic, check out our Self-Awareness course. You can also search for keywords such as "feeling self" and "meditation" in The Wonders Library.

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The Wonders are a collective consciousness channeled by deep trance channeler Réné Gaudette.  Réné channels The Wonders in a deep trance state. He has recorded every session by The Wonders and amassed an entire audio library of their material. You can listen to all of the recordings in The Wonders Library.  You can schedule a session with The Wonders and attend all events by The Wonders through The Wonders Hub.