Feelings Are A Clue to Understanding Ourselves

Eating the feeling instead of allowing it is a distraction and can also numb us out.

Eating the feeling keeps us from feeling it.

Feeling the feeling may cause some discomfort and make us face how we really feel about something/someone.

Facing how we feel might cause enough discomfort for us to make changes or draw boundaries.

Feeling the feeling may help us to understand ourselves better and what we really want.

Feeling the feeling may allow us the opportunity to redirect outdated beliefs.

Feeling the feeling can give us a clue to decipher what is mine and what is yours.

Eating our feelings helps us to stay in situations we don’t want to be in and numb out.

Allowing the feeling reminds us of our humanity.

Witnessing events that cause us to experience negative feelings reminds us of compassion, dignity and human rights.

Avoiding negative feelings can become a habit.

If you can allow your own feelings to come up, you may be better able to decipher what bothers you. We can allow in others what we allow in ourselves and vice versa. Not witnessing things that make us uncomfortable, is allowing those things to keep happening.