The Ancient Art of Feeling Better

There is something almost-magical that everybody has. Everybody has it, so it’s ultra-common, but at the same time it`s somehow still magical. When life presents us with any circumstances, we all have this reliable resource to fall back on. What is it? In case you couldn’t guess from the title of the post, I`m talking about feelings.

People are so eager to study skills, arts, and techniques, but they seem determined to remain clueless about something more reliable than breathing. When’s the last time you received some information and ideas on The Art of Feeling Better?

You Know What`s Right For You

Consider the idea being that somehow, deep-down, every single human being knows what choice is right for them at any given moment.

It makes sense. No one likes being told that they don’t know what’s best for themselves. No one likes someone TELLING them how to feel. That’s because they know at their core, that their feelings are personal and powerful.

Feelings might go back and forth, moment-to-moment. They might be judged and labelled by society. They might be scary or they might be inspiring, but no matter what, they are guiding us.

Oh sure, we can disconnect from them and convince ourselves that we don’t have them, that we’re "fine" when we’re really a whole mix of emotions, but feelings will become stronger over time, until we listen.

Love, Appreciation, Optimism, Hope, Boredom, Pessimism, Frustration, Doubt, Anger, Hatred, Worthlessness, Fear — these are all things people can feel.

You Are Always Feeling, Can`t Help It

So here we go, in any moment, in any situation, you’re feeling something. You have an opportunity to make a choice. It might be a simple choice like "think something different about this", or a more obvious choice like "take action; change my direction". Whatever the case, that choice will change the feeling you`re having, either for better, or for worse. So it looks like this: Moment#1: Feel <blank>. Moment#2: Make some choice. Moment#3: Feel <a bit better OR a bit worse>.

This is every situation, and every circumstance, ever.

This is your rock-solid, reliable guidance tool, helping you get on track to your own personal success.

If you’re feeling worthless, you can choose to get angry at something, and maybe that ‘feels better’.

If you’re feeling content, and then you start worrying about rent, maybe that ‘feels worse’.

It’s uber-simple guidance, and it’s always available. No one can take it from you, and you can practice it any time you want. This feeling is your true inner-soul, your instinct, your conscience, your own connection with God — whatever you want to call it. The point is we all have access to it at all times, without question, never-endingly.

The tricky bit is when you’re at one feeling on the scale, you only have access to one feeling lower, or one feeling higher. Period. If you’re at anger, you can’t just suddenly JUMP to joyful, but you can move up the scale, moment to moment (even in a short amount of time,) and eventually reach joy.

Everyone do what they feel? That’d be anarchy right? Well, that’s what society tells you, but have you ever experimented? Seen for yourself? Have you ever just tried listening to your feelings, and doing what feels better? Surely you can wake up tomorrow and give it a shot, without the world plunging into utter chaos.

You can, because your emotional guidance system is safe.

You Can Master It

Listening to your emotional guidance system is something you can practice.

Listening once is something new, perhaps it’s scary. ("Oh no, what crazy things might happen? Will I lose a job I never wanted anyway? Will I lose a friend who doesn’t want to be successful until they’re 65? What will happen?") Listening to your feelings a few times is the beginning of skill. Do it enough and it becomes a natural, easy habit that works miracles in your life, consistently guding you to better feelings.

It is absolutely fantastically life-changing. Someone alert LifeHacker. This is the ultimate life-hack.

Our society has years and decades and centuries of guardedness and disconnection from their Emotional Guidance System

For me, I’m dedicated. I’m committed. I always listen to my feelings and I do it quicker and more precisely all the time. I’ll cut phone calls short, ignore emails, and suddenly leave events if my that’s what my Emotional Guidance System tells me to do. I’ll stay in relationships that seem draining and useless if it feels right. If I’m learning something, or helping someone. And I’ll drop them the same way. I listen to my feelings.

I’ll also choose to have phone calls go extra long, write multiple, lengthy, time-consuming emails, and prolong my stay through situations that many people would label as nightmarish, if my Emotional Guidance System tells me to do this.

In either case, I feel fantastic about it. In either case, success is the result.

"Nothing is more important than that I feel good," is the Google of ideas. It’s simple and comprehensive at the same time. It’s minimal and powerful, simultaneously.

Try it.

Try it.

Try it.

P.S. If you want some resources, tools, and processes you can use to quickly and easily move up the scale, we’ve compiled a bunch of truly awesome one’s for you here: SpiritSentient.com’s Free Resources