Have you ever been told that your feelings are not important?
Were you always silenced when you got emotional about something that upset you and therefore made others feel uneasy around you because of them?
How did you feel about your own feelings growing up? And what about now?
Personally, my feelings always discomforted me. They made me feel much too vulnerable and completely out of control. Not sure about you, but being vulnerable was something that in my family was considered a weakness and they, in their efforts to do the best for me, always could not deal with their own much less mine.
Don't get me wrong, we are all products of our conditioning and therefore, subject to its hold over us. But as we grow older, and hopefully wiser, we can learn to unmask its hold on us and navigate better waters of self in empowering ways. And, naturally, the onus is on us, to make those changes for ourselves in ways that expand our own lives and those of others.
So, this is my journey through my own feelings and an example into a small exercise into self-analysis:
