10:01 AM.
The iPhone vibrates.
It’s a message.
From me.
To me.
“Do you want more of what you’re feeling?”
I schedule this to happen three times per day. And each time the alarm goes off, this question appears on my screen.
“Do you want more of what you’re feeling?”
It’s become an important question I ask of myself.
In order for me to know the honest answer to this question, I must stop for a moment and notice what I am actually feeling.
How am I doing? Happy? Sad? Angry? Indifferent? Stressed? Peaceful? Anxious?
Before I started asking myself this question, for the most part I never really knew how I was doing. The days would sort of run their course, meandering through various emotional and vibrational peaks and valleys, with me obliviously reacting to it all.
Feelings are important barometers because we tend to get more of what we are feeling. Angry Pete would find more things to be angry about, and the Peaceful Pete would effortlessly find more peace. Feelings have their own energetic vibration, and in a world greatly influenced by energetic vibration we get back more of what we are radiating outward.
Prompting me to check in with me shows me the path I am on. Most times I do want more of what I’m feeling. Occasionally, though, this momentary look into myself tells me that no, I don’t want more of what I’m feeling. Without judging myself harshly if I find myself misaligned from how I want to feel. I notice. I investigate. I adjust, if I desire to. It’s usually a quick process, but there are times when I need to go deeper and stay with the unwanted feelings, try and understand why they are there, and lovingly Continue reading “Do You Want More Of What You’re Feeling?”