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Feelings
by Guy Spiro

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Don't worry, I'm not about to break into the (whoa whoa whoa) wedding song that we've all heard way too many times. Count yourself lucky that this is print media. Our culture has always placed a premium on mental and physical development. But it's a good thing to remember that our emotions need attention, too. An academic or a business leader can be brilliant but a five-year-old emotionally and it is okay as long as he or she produces desired results. Star athletes, actors and musicians are often prone to tantrums and prima donna displays, but their talent gets them by. These are examples of people at the top of their fields, but the rest of us suffer various emotional dysfunction as well.

Recently we have become more aware of the importance of the emotional level in the creation of our personal realities. The Abraham channeling, Lynn Grabhorn's recent book Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting, and the information presented by Sri Shiva (see interview in the February issue of TMA) have ably pointed out the necessity of adding positive emotion to the creation process. We're all familiar with Think and Grow Rich and other titles that tell how our thoughts create our realities. It is true that as the creation process comes down the planes, the mental level is the first step toward manifestation on the physical. What has all too often been missed, however, is the emotional level--which is between the mental and physical and so that much closer to what becomes our created physical reality. Here is where we get short-circuited. Positive thoughts that get filtered through negative or fearful feelings don't produce the desired results.

Being cut off from our emotions similarly chokes and distorts the creative flow as well. Many of us tend to live primarily in our minds. The emotions are seen as messy, disruptive and to be controlled. Those who well up at happy or poignant moments in movies or in real life get laughed at and we are taught to be hard and even cold. This has the effect of cutting us off from some of the best that life has to offer.

Others of us have suffered from neglect, abuse and other trauma which has left us unable to feel, or at least to feel the positive emotions. There is the classic blues lyric that usually goes "If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck." Many can easily substitute "feelings" for luck, and that is an equally sad state of affairs.

The emotional level is every bit as powerful as the mental and every bit as deserving of our attention. Whatever variety or combination of emotional dysfunction we may be saddled with, it is in our best interest to face it and deal with it.

What we think begins the creative process but how we feel brings it to reality. Feelings ...