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But you are the one that experience them.

Yesterday morning I woke up feelings sad and depressed, I did had a hard time getting something to eat and to get on with my day. Before this might had kept me in bed all day long, or sitting in front of the television, because I would have that feeling of not doing anything today. Because why do anything? What’s the point of doing things anyway? But I convinces myself to go on and do some painting that needed to be finish, and as I started doing this all of a sudden the feelings disappear just a suddenly as they did appear. So why am I telling you this?

Because I use to spend a great deal of energy on analyzing why I had this or another feeling, without realizing that I in that way just gave it more energy and actually made it even worse that it was from the beginning. I could have picked up the phone and rang to one of my friends telling them about this terrible feeling that I have and getting into a long story about how and why this feeling had come to me. Maybe I would even point to some other person explaining that this person was actually responsible for me having this feeling. And maybe my friend would even join my in analyzing this feeling and trying to give my good advice about how not to have this feeling. And we could talk for hours about it, turning every little stone in my life to look for the reason for this feeling, looking for the right explanation. And as we would talk more and more we would add even more energy to this specific feeling and it would be even more difficult for me to get rid of it again.

So instead of just accepting that this is how I feel right now, I could have put a lot of energy and time into finding out why ) Being part of a dualistic world this is how we usually deals with our feelings, trying to figure out why and where they came from. And trying to see if we could blame somebody else for this feeling. This is because we identify ourselves with our feelings. Because we have that illusion that we are our feelings, but dear friends we are not. We are the one that experience these feelings, but they are not who we are. And if we accept the feeling and move on there will be another feeling coming to us, and even this feeling is not who we are. You see, we are here to experience life in a human body, and all our feelings is something that we experience. And when you start accepting your feelings as something that you experience, then you can go into why you experience these feelings. Because then you will understand the answers that are given to you.

Remember that the sun does not shine more or less depending on your feelings, only how you look upon it varies.

I wish you a most wonderful day,

Blessings & Love

Jacob