Well, as usual, you get it. I tend to think that this new awareness is something that will need nurturing by me. In the past, I have often been very quick to think just because a lesson had been learned that I really had assimilated it and made it a part of me. Not so this...my urge remains to intellectualize things. Knowing this is good, though. Being aware that I might do this will help me.
As I feel my feelings, the good ones and the bad ones, I am learning to let go...not just of the feelings...
I have a friend, she calls doing just what I have described as floating. She looks at it like this - our feelings are like water, sometimes calm, sometimes choppy, and if we just allow ourselves to float in them, we keep our heads above water. It is when we try to fight the water that we drown.
Well, thank you for your sharing your thoughts on this with me...you, too, have helped me tremendously. As for continuing to analyze things...do not think I could stop even if I wanted to. That said, I am going to be careful to recognize the difference between thinking and feeling and when each is appropriate.
