HOW DO YOU WANT TO FEEL?

AS IS YOUR DESIRE, SO IS YOUR WILL.

AS IS YOUR WILL, SO IS YOUR DEED.

AS IS YOUR DEED,

SO IS YOUR DESTINY.

THE UPANISHADS

We tend to focus so much on external goals, on tasks to complete, on plans to get them concrete, on objectives and practical things to obtain and stuff to get. But we rarely think about any internal goals, any feelings we wish to achieve, any sensations to experience, anything new in the field of emotional intelligence.

HOW DO YOU WANT TO FEEL?

Knowing how you actually wish to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have. Making those feelings to come to life is the most creative and the most powerful thing you can do with your life.

When I was studying Psychology, back in uni, one of my teachers said something that stood in my mind, he said that behind every emotion, there is another emotion. For instance, when you feel angry, you feel angry because you were (as an example) made to be ashamed of something, so you felt embarrassment. And because of that feeling you are angry as you did not wish to show it or you did not wish for someone to spot you doing that thing that caused you to feel that way in the first place. Just like this, behind any goal, there is an emotion.

“You are not chasing the goal itself; you are chasing the feeling that you hope attaining those goals will give you.”, mentions Danielle LaPorte. When you are clear on how you wish to feel, the pursuit itself will become more satisfying.

Your desire is the most creative tool in the universe to achieve your goals. And the essence of your desire is a feeling.

Desire is a teacher:

“WHEN WE IMMERSE OURSELVES IN IT WITHOUT GUILT, SHAME OR CLINGING, IT CAN SHOW US SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT OUR OWN MINDS THAT ALLOWS US TO EMBRACE LIFE FULLY.” MARK EPSTEIN

So, how do you want to feel and what is it that you can do to generate those feelings more often, so that you can be happier and more grateful towards life?

Here’s a list to being with to get you inspired:

ENERGIZED

CONNECTED

EMPOWERED WITH SUPERPOWERS TO ACCOMPLISH IT ALL

FREE

LIMITLESS

READY

EXPANSIVE

ABUNDANT

VIBRANT

LUXURIOUS

AUTHENTIC

BRILLIANT

CALM

IN THE FLOW

INNOVATIVE

POWERFUL

GENUINE

GRATEFUL

PURPOSEFUL

CLEAR

MASTERFUL

JOYFUL

GUIDED

BLESSED

HEALTHY

AMAZING

DIVINE

YOUTHFUL

VALIDATED

VALUED

JUBILANT

Everything we do is driven by the desire to feel in a certain way.

“THE HEART GENERATES THE LARGEST ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD IN THE BODY… THE ELECTRICAL FIELD IS ABOUT 60 TIMES GREATER IN AMPLITUDE THAN THE BRAIN WAVES. THE MAGNETIC COMPONENT OF THE HEART’S FIELD, WHICH IS AROUND 100 TIMES STRONGER THAN THAT PRODUCED BY THE BRAIN … CAN BE MEASURED SEVERAL FEET AWAY FROM THE BODY.” ROLLIN MCCRATY, PHD.

Feelings are magnetic. Feelings are indicators of your personal reality. Feelings are how you perceive life. Perception informs you how you live.

Your feelings are the road signs directing you to your soul.

Seek out environments that match your desired feelings.

“REMEMBER, WHAT YOU SEEK IS SEEKING YOU.” RUMI.

AND HOW TO APPRECIATE YOUR LIFE while feeling ...

... Anxious about work, anxious about home, anxious that I need to figure out who I want to be and who I am, what I like.

Anxiety can take many forms. It can make you search frantically online for information; it can make you try to collect different things; it can make you analyse things too much; it can make you not stay still; it can get you away from your inner self, it can make you obsessive compulsive with social media and it definitely takes away your tranquillity.

It’s like a disease. No, an epidemic lifestyle.

I have a cure. A book. I was reading Pond by Claire Louise Bennett and I experienced a elevated mood rapidly because I got immersed in the style of the writing. It is exquisite. It sets you to stay still and listen to the words whispered through the beautifully written pages. It moves you into its direction: a peaceful, tranquil lifestyle. A love for being in the moment. For living the life, you were given. For being curious with everything that it exists.

It made me so at peace that I really believe it stopped the long train of thoughts I had about all things in my life. If you choose to read it, I believe you too will be mesmerized by the way it makes you accept your life and love it. It will teach you how to appreciate everything you have. Everything you are.

It will be like a warm bath with candles, along a book and lovely flowers that spread their fragrance of life and colour and it will haunt you long after you have put it down with its simplicity, yet refined writing style, with its delicacy, yet bold affirmations of life.

It will absorb your soul with its elegant creative writing and it will quiet your anxiety with its luxurious lush shapely cocktail of words that form a distinct universe in your mind, putting your agitation to do something or look for something to rest. Mental clarity is achieved and the inner turmoil accompanied when you experience anxiety will feel has diminished with the same speed the light travels through time. That’s how Pond will make you travel. In line with life, in line with NOW.