Feelings to be ignored

Ignore your feelings?  Who ever heard of such a thing? Aren’t we supposed to fully experience our feelings and that is how freedom is achieved?

What we learn in movies and TV

Isn’t that conventional wisdom or at least what we learn in movies and TV regarding denial versus experiential?

Scoobydoo as a mecca of wisdom?

For that matter, it’s what is taught in Scoobydoo. I watch Scooby with my 3 year old daughter. And in a recent episode Fred, who is seemingly a bit more enamored with mechanical traps than Daphne, has a revelation that he has feelings for Daphne.

If Scooby does it why ignore?

So why then ignore your feelings? Because sometimes feelings get in our way. Just because we have thought that results in a feeling doesn’t mean the thought is true or valid.

Goodbye to disturbing

In turn the resulting feeling, especially if it emanates from a disturbing thought, may be best left alone – ignored.

If your life was a movie what kind of movie would it be? An art film or not? A blockbuster. A feel-good flick? Each of us probably has an idea of the kind of movies we like, yet ironically we don’t always know what kind of life that we want. Or rather, we may have a sense of how we would like our lives to be but we don’t take action toward achieving that. So what kind of movie would you like your life to be? What would the storyline be? Who would you cast in it? Get an image of what you’d like it to be like and take a snapshot. Then let the filmmaking begin!