Feeling Your Feeling

I love people that truly feel, some people are totally lost, almost out of their body, they feel nothing or feel in such a lame weak manner. Nothing is worth bothering about as far as they are concerned. They do not get hot and bothered about anything. I will never forget the image of a young lady in those early days of the eliminating chairs on X factor. As soon as Hannah Barnet started singing and hit a particular note we all could see the reactions of one of her fellow contestant, she felt it. She gave a sway of the head that says “I am in the zone”, for that split second she forgot they were competing for the same spot.

Sometimes we stop feeling, we stop tasting, we stop seeing, we stop being awed. We become numb and we don’t even know, nothing excites us, trip us or amaze us. I actually know people who are proud of and boast about their lacklustre attitude to life. They say with glee, ‘nothing excites me’ how can that be a good, fulfilling or abundant life? But most importantly, how do we get to that state that we stop feeling the feeling? What is it that pushes us over the feeling edge? We live in an age and society where we are told to keep our feelings under control, it is unprofessional to let it all out. Our anger must be calmed down, our excitement must be contained, our displeasure must not be expressed. Little wonder a lot of us are unwell, too many unexpressed emotions are trapped in our bodies and until we let those out we are not going anywhere fast. Am I advocating we all go wild in a civilised society? No! Though there are times when I wonder if it is the civilised society killing us. At the end of the day we are human beings and not some robotic being with no emotions, it is part of our humanity for us to be expressive.

I remember once when I reacted appropriately to an act of unfairness and injustice and I was told that I over reacted. And I was like ‘how could I have overreacted?’ when that was the response from the core of my being. No thank you, I did not over reacted, I reacted just in accordance. What we feel is what we feel and it is as true as can be. Our feeling is always true, our reading of a situation that gave rise to the feeling can be flawed but what we felt, we felt.

Feel it!