#heartinspired ❤️❤️❤️ Day 1 For most of us, everyday life is a series of emotions. A plethora of feelings. Imagine cuddling your child whilst watching a good movie or being out on a romantic date with the love of your life or even reaching that all-important milestone in your business or recreational passion. To contrast that with an opposite emotional texture, think about when you receive that foreboding 'bad news text' and you're stomach flips and you feel blood rushing to your head? Albeit that is certainly a 'not-so-pleasant' experience, it's important to realise that its these varying emotions which enable us to live a life embellished with wonderful emotional variables. What about, though, when you've hit a period in your life where you feel almost DEVOID of feelings? You feel numb or suppressed and you are living life in an almost mechanical way? 😩😩😩 What if you've already immersed yourself in personal development courses, obtained holistic health understandings, joined a gym, obtained spiritual awareness and learned basic health science so you know what you SHOULD be doing to exit this 'empty' existence......but you just can't quite do it? You're 'going through the motions'; almost shut down emotionally? Lost? Young or old, male or female, people shut down their feelings as a defence mechanism when emotional distress becomes too much. NOT FEELING seems the least painful alternative. When you don't understand the purpose of your feelings or how to interpret them, life can be very confusing. You may get stressed, angry, anxious, sad and then overreact with judgement and blame towards yourself or others. You may end up feeling shut off from people and choose to withdraw into loneliness. Having lost both my parents unexpectedly in my late 20's then, experienced a divorce only 9 months later, having underwent more than one financial crisis in my life, been through the homeless route, endured business 'non-successes' (I won't call them failures as the only 'failure' is when you don't try) and then having watched my husband almost die from cancer 2 years ago, I had still NEVER experienced this feeling of true EMPTINESS until not-so-long (at Newton Mearns)
