How do you keep some kind of balance between thinking and feeling in your life? These two major ways of relating to the world are in a delicate dance today. Your mind: full of opinions, ideas, fantasies and problems to solve. Constantly reporting and informing about what you're doing, perceiving and experiencing. Your thoughts are an almost steady commentary, with suggestions for your safety and wellbeing.
Feelings come directly out of your connection to life, to others, and to what you are experiencing. You respond to the moment, and you tap into the whole body of responses in you that make up the feeling of who you are. Sometimes unprocessed or repressed feelings from your past clog up your experience, and then your connections in the present just re-stimulate those past feelings.
When you slow down and relax, thinking can become still and clear, and your feelings can be honest, and unguarded. A balance happens. When you no longer talk yourself out of your feelings or rationalize them away, your feelings can express who you are. And when you are not emotionally afraid of seeing the truth, your thinking can be clear, straightforward, and wise.
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