Sunday, May 15, 2011

How do you feel?


Not are you sick or are you well. A more interesting question is:

"What's your base line emotion?" 

Speaking textually, what's your natural emoticon? :>) or :>( ? 

When nothing good or bad is happening, when life is in neutral, or when you're settling down to sleep or waking up in the morning, what are you feeling?  What is the subtle emotion that makes itself felt in the wee hours? Are you content, happy, pleased with life in general, or are you tense, annoyed, or angry without knowing why? 

Do you even know how you feel in general? Have you ever asked yourself this question? Is your life based on externals? Do you need an event or experience or person to point to that generates an emotion (You won a million dollars so you're feeling happy, or your dog died so you're feeling sad?) to know how you feel? 

Try an experiment.  Right now, how do you feel? However you feel, can you change the feeling just by wanting to?  Can you move into joy without having to have something to feel joyful about? Can you feel good with no good reason?

How do you feel?

Take a page from Nina Simone

 Feel good.