We banter the word feelings around blithely. I wonder if any of us has sat down and deliberately looked more deeply into just what feelings means? We learned as children to answer the question “How are you feeling today?” We learned to use the word in our workaday life: “I’m feeling overwhelmed with all this work.” We use it around our home “I don’t feel like cooking dinner tonight, honey. Can we go out to eat?” That word is part and parcel of our everyday life.
Here is an exposé of your mentality – your mind – and how it works. We have to look at the whole picture because feelings are just one small piece of the whole thing. In fact, try to think of feeling as the small period at the end of the sentence. Feelings come at the tail end of the thinking process.
You can think. This means you are a mental being – Mind Itself – because it’s only mind that can think. Imagine that! All these years of thinking and you may not have known the fact that thinking makes you a mental being. This is a critical piece of information. If you are Mind because you can think, then what?
It’s very exciting, dear readers. If you are mind because you can think, then the very next thing to look at is what your thinking causes. Did you know that your thinking causes things? It does. Here are a few examples:
- Thinking sadness produces tears
- Thinking happy makes you shout, jump and fling your arms out
- Thinking sick thoughts makes your stomach ache
In a mental world, where there is your mind thinking, and this thinking causes something as its end product, this would make your Mind Cause Itself. I put those in full capitals because Mind as Cause Itself is crucial. I’d like to remind you that we are trying in this article to discuss feelings and we are making progress. You now have one of the two pieces of data that precedes understanding feeling. You now know that, first and foremost, your Mind is Cause and your mind causes what you think.
Take some time to digest this post and stay tuned for part 2!
~Maria
