{"id":5261,"date":"2021-03-21T11:22:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T18:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jamiecavanaugh.com\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2023-11-01T04:05:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T11:05:45","slug":"how-do-you-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamiecavanaugh.com\/how-do-you-feel\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Feel?"},"content":{"rendered":"
How are you feeling?<\/strong><\/p>\n Take a deep breath. What’s the vibration you experience in your body. Do you feel anxious? Overwhelm? Frustrated? Tired? Calm? Confident?<\/p>\n Make note of how you’re feeling. What are the three feelings that you most commonly feel on any given day?<\/p>\n Tune in to your body.<\/p>\n What’s it telling you?<\/p>\n Through close observation and awareness, I witnessed that my three most common feelings were anxiety worry and judgment.<\/p>\n When I kept track of my most common thoughts they centered around uncertainty, worrying about things in the future, and so many thoughts about my own shortcomings and judgment of others.<\/p>\n It’s important to know how you’re feeling because we take action based on how we feel.<\/strong><\/p>\n What kinds of actions are fueled by feelings of anxiety, worry, and judgment? Certainly not the actions I want to take!<\/p>\n How do you want to feel?<\/p>\n Do you know that you can choose how you feel?<\/p>\n Our feelings are produced from the thoughts we have. This is such great news! This means we can affect our feelings and emotions by becoming more aware of our thoughts.<\/p>\n My thoughts of fear and negativity towards myself and others kept me feeling negative emotions most of the time.<\/p>\n It’s okay to feel negative emotions sometimes. We don’t want to resist feeling negative emotions but we do have a choice, we have free will, to choose the thoughts we think and believe.<\/p>\n I want to feel self-confident, calm, and have compassion for myself and others.<\/p>\n So I practice recognizing when I have thoughts focused on anxiety, worry, and judgment, and I know that I can choose to believe other things.<\/p>\n Here are new thoughts I’m trying-on:<\/p>\n “I don’t know what will happen and that’s okay.” Practicing these new thoughts truly makes a big difference in my life.<\/p>\n Different feelings lead to different actions.<\/strong><\/p>\n I encourage you to check-in with yourself right now.<\/p>\n Grab a cup of tea and a notebook and start writing down how you’re feeling, what thoughts are going through your head. Write it all down.<\/p>\n Do you want help and guidance to do this work? How can you take the actions you truly want? I can help.<\/p>\n
\nClose your eyes.<\/p>\nTop three feelings<\/h2>\n
Thoughts produce feelings<\/h2>\n
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\n“I’ll wait and see what happens.”
\n“I can handle any situation.”
\n“I can handle feeling any emotion.”
\n“I’m imperfect, we’re all imperfect and human.”<\/p>\n\n