Mankind is asleep to the inner movements of his mind and feelings.
Mankind is asleep. He is asleep to the inner movements of his mind and feelings. Prove this for yourself by observing and understanding everything about your feelings.
In Vernon Howard’s talk (3-18-89), he stated, “Do not label your inner feelings- you will deceive yourself.” He went on to say, “Allow the feeling to tell you all about it. Basically, You will make a marvelous self-discovery.”
So I took on the challenge.
Taking on the challenge. Instantly I discovered that I was being tricked by my own thoughts about my feelings. After all, I assumed I was thinking clearly, and I was not. Sure that my thinking was proper and correct. I hadn’t questioned my thoughts and, therefore, became a total victim of my wrong thinking. If my thoughts and feelings said life is tough, assuming it was right and so bought it hook, line, and sinker. Those thoughts labeled the feelings, and as Vernon had said, I deceived myself. Therefore I began to prove to myself what he said in this talk. This changed absolutely everything in my day because I was onto my self-trick, and now my labeling was being exposed with every event that occurred in my day. Every feeling that arose showed me my wrong thinking by my new questioning, being interested, and curious about this whole process.
What a chunk of spiritual gold this is.
What a chunk of spiritual gold this is. Anyone exhausted by the roller coaster life of uncontrolled feelings can simply get off the roller coaster by using this powerful exercise of not labeling their inner feelings.
Not labelling feelings is an amazing exercise, but what amazed me most of all was how i wanted to hang on to the labels, I wanted to hang on to the negativity, that shocked me. I had to work hard to relax and let go of the old thinking, to allow the new ! I will continue to work with “not labeling”.
Right Glenda, This is a shock that you will encounter many times because it is so easy to fall back into sleep. The world is not just asleep but socked to sleep and keeping everyone else living in this desolate state of mind with its bad propaganda.
What a great lesson! Thanks Steve.