Let's think about this for a minute. ;) Understanding mentally in the mind, without understanding emotionally, is only half of the equation as a human being. If you expect yourself to no longer experience pain, or negative patterns in your life, because you mentally understand something...you are to be sorely mistaken. Hence, why talk-therapy only tends to bring relief at best, but not resolve. You can't talk or think, your way into being a whole person. When you understand on both levels, mentally and emotionally, they are lived in the body, in the world, and you are free. Understanding in the mind does not automatically mean you understand it on an emotional level. You can see something and not understand how it feels, unless you touch it. Ever notice how your mind can say one thing, and your heart says the total opposite? Only when you fully feel, past your reactionary resistance (wounds/baggage), can you access understanding on an emotional level, and therefore on a being level, mind, body, & spirit, and live life to it's fullest potential.

This is to suggest, that if you over-emphasize the mental body (what you think), over the emotional body (how you feel), you are putting yourself at an unfair vantage point in life. To emphasize them equally, to toggle between perspectives, brings you into integration and resolve. It changes the entirety of the pattern, instead of only one side of the coin. If you are unwilling to be with yourself, or be an advocate for yourself emotionally, it cuts off your capacity to create, to attract, to be whole. This is a big component as to why the world is the way it is right now. Most people only want to be with themselves when they feel good... and they live life chasing that feeling through relationships, jobs, presidents, etc.. Often, only to be mentally rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, wondering why they are still sinking in their lives, and globally. Understanding in the mind is the seed, that if you don't allow it to drop down into the soil to be felt and understood, will never take root...and nothing sustainable or nourishing grows. To be with yourself, no matter how you feel, is the key to unlock all that you desire.

Important to note, that if you mentally resist the feeling with judgments, criticisms, lack of acceptance or respect, you are not fully being with the feeling, and therefore not really being with yourself. That is called suffering. It's not your fear that is the problem, it is the resistance to your fear that creates all the problems. Whatever you need to do to get your mind, or your consciousness, on board with being present with feeling your feelings, DO IT! ....ya know, if you wanna.

The time is now. Consciousness in service to sentience, is the only way to be. Only way to be free. Relative truth and objective truth are indivisible. Subscribing to a way of thought that praises absolute truth at the negation of relative truth, is just another form of fundamentalism. In other words, consciousness must be in service to sentience if there is to be coherency.
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