Twitter asks ‘What are you doing?’ while Wisdom asks ‘How are you feeling?’

Doing well versus feeling good

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If you happen to be a Twitter-er, you’ll know that this microblog launches off one simple question:

What are you doing?

People, many of whom are strangers to one another and who would not otherwise be communicating with each other, now seem to have an non-intrusive way of communicating with each other by answering that simple question, What are you doing?

Now, while what you are doing may be interesting or important or meaningful or life-changing, what is really most fascinating about ‘what you are doing’ is that it reflects something else that is happening WITHIN you, something that drives ‘what you are doing’.

Most of us tend to place more value and give greater significance to what we are doing than to what is happening within us, to the point that if we do not appear to be doing something recognizably ‘useful’ or ’significant’ or ‘important’, we feel useless, unworthy or unimportant.  In other words, we must be seen to be doing *something* in order to feel worthy of our place on this planet.

This is what often motivates us to do the things that we do, whether it is the job that we spend the best part of our day at or the actions we take to remain in someone’s good books or the devices we use to improve our image or standing in a community or group.

But consider for a moment what might happen if you shifted your attention to ‘how am I feeling?’  What value could you derive from this?

Given that your natural state (which you can easily experience in meditation) is one of peace, harmony, spontaneous joy, spaciousness, limitlessness, freedom and unconditional love, you would be able to tune into any feeling that does not resonate with your natural state.

By becoming aware of these un-natural (not abnormal) feelings such as anger, fear, resentment, sadness etc (feelings that we have learned and become conditioned into), we place ourselves in the very powerful position of FREE CHOICE.

It is from this place of free choice that we can decide if we want to re-align with our natural state of happiness.  If we do, then all we need to do is IMAGINE (with all our senses), INTEND and ALLOW the feelings that we do want to feel and which are aligned with our natural state.  It is as simple as that.

Once we are aligned with our naturally good, creative, powerful, freeing and limitless feelings, we are likely to bring them into whatever action we take!  In fact, our actions will be joyously INSPIRED by our good feelings rather than effortfully driven by our negative ones!  Wouldn’t you just love that?

Blessings

Lucy Lopez

Awakening to Happiness!