I Feel therefore I Trust
Reflection on Healing and the Body by Julie Roberts (Feb 2024)
Feelings occur naturally in the body. We attach meaning to the feelings we have from life experiences. Negative things that happen to us can get stored in the body. Our feelings lead to thoughts that create beliefs, and then we act from those beliefs, even ones that hinder our flourishing and health.
Beliefs lead to self-protection, because our needs for love and safety were not met. We separate from our feelings in order to stay safe. We separate from ourselves, from others, and from source (spirit or higher power). We disconnect and lose trust in the world. We keep our protections and use them, so we can stay in a system we believe we can’t leave.
Self-Protection leads to addiction (substance or behaviors): numbing, controlling, escaping behaviors, and shutdown. We become closed to learning. We lose connection to self, to healthy relationships, to source.
Healing happens in the body. To heal, first decide you are open to learning from feeling. Decide you are willing to feel, to take responsibility for your feelings.
Be in the body to allow and process those feelings.
When you fully embrace feelings without resistance, you can connect to self-source-spirit-higher power, which leads to insight and directs you about what to do. Then you can create safety for self and others and can connect to others.
Once you are in your body with your feelings, you can ask ancestors (who are related to the issue) to be present. Feel into your body again. See how ancestors are related to the constrictions in your body (unprocessed feelings). Ask your ancestors to fully see the issue and process with you.
The more you embrace your feelings, you see where your beliefs come from, how they determine your reality, and how they are linked to your past and your ancestors. When you allow and embrace all of that, you will notice sensations in your body to help process and release trauma.
When you reconnect to yourself and your feelings, you reconnect to source-spirit-higher power and return to flow – realigning with nature, your body, creation. Then synchronicities happen and intuition guides you into flourishing. You can feel into and resonate with what is aligned for you and what is not. Then you choose wisely your next steps.
I feel therefore I trust.