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Saturday, June 21, 2014
You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go
The Good Feelings
Let yourself feel the good feelings too.
Yes, sometimes, good feelings can be as distracting as the painful, more difficult ones. Yes, good feelings can be anxiety producing to those of us unaccustomed to them. But go ahead and feel the good feelings anyway.
Feel and accept the joy. The love. The warmth. The excitement. The pleasure. The satisfaction. The elation. The tenderness. The comfort.
Let yourself feel the victory, the delight.
Let yourself feel cared for.
Let yourself feel respected, important, and special.
These are only feelings, but they feel good. They are full of positive, upbeat energy - and we deserve to feel that when it comes our way.
We don't have to repress. We don't have to talk ourselves out of feeling good - not for a moment.
If we feel it, it's ours for the moment. Own it. If it's good, enjoy it.
Today, God, help me be open to the joy and good feelings available to me.
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I need to identify the feelings. I could let them go until I felt them. I had to identify in order to enjoy and accept them.
I had stuffed feelings for many years. It took a long time for some of them to surface. They had been long forgotten, along with the pain that was often rooted in my childhood, and had compounded interest added to them. They had grown so big, it was hard to get to recognize them.