Dear Guides,
When our emotions turn off or disconnect from an overload of stress, how do we get back into the flow (considering that our emotions are our guidance system)?
Excerpt from Minda’s channeling 11.17.2009:
Dear one,
…If you feel nothing, like you are in an emotional desert, turn on your radar to test out “just what feels like what” as clearly as you can. Are you feeling absolutely nothing? Or does some small shift occur with a small shift in activities?
You can decide to take a time out, and try to experiment with varying activities. Which one would give you a slightly different feeling of, perhaps, comfort, safety? If you can at least come from the feeling of stress into a more reassuring feeling, you will relax just one tiny bit into the flow. If you can then try to experience other aspects of life’s possibilities, you can experiment like a scientist and notice which actions move you to other realms of feelings. Slowly by this experimentation, you may find the path to feeling more of who you are, until ultimately you will reconnect consciously to the energy within which is propelling you towards fulfillment.
An example of this experimentation might include putting yourself in a situation where you feel hypersensitive to outside stimuli. If you close your eyes and touch different textures, does that give you the feeling of being alive, in the flow? If you close your eyes and listen to sounds around you or within you, or musical selections, how does that make you feel? If you taste something, or look at a piece of art or read a sentence of uplifting material, does that help to center you?
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Channeling (c) 2009 Minda Bernstein
Painting (c) 2009 Julie Bernstein Engelmann
Painting title: Emotional Shut-down 11.17.2009
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