@kittengirl,

Top of the morning in Cali to you and the kitties. I hope Bull had a wonderful birthday.
Spoil them all. MEOW!

@71flowerchild,

Wishing you a great day in Texas enjoy the fur babies. 🙂 I did do an encore for you last night.
Stay nice and cool.

@shoelady60,

Keeping you in my prayers. Safe journey. 🙂

@taci,

Good Morning in Cali I hope you like your G TS. Let us know how you like them.
I have long legs I need to try pants on. The Maxi dresses I can wear and I love the tops. 🙂
How is son doing so far with his new summer job? I hope he likes being back home.

Taci I have some Heidi Daus coming today. I will let you know what it is. 🙂

Sister is home now and so far so good she is a little foggy from the Medicine. Sis like
her sis is a tough cookie. 🙂

Enjoy the trails.

@bichon18,

Good Morning funny lady. 🙂 How are you and Jerry doing? I did get some rest still I feel
restless.

This too shall pass. Amy I will cover some Broadway later this evening for you. I think
some Broadway will cheer me up. i like to mix the music up. I love all music. 🙂

Music is in my soul as I have always said. Here is to a great day. We are raining in OZ!

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651-474

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657-644

HSN TS

Sitting With Feelings

Taking the time to sit with your feelings to acknowledge them, will save you much distress down the road.

It can take great courage to really sit with our feelings, allowing ourselves to surrender to their powerful energies. All too often we set our feelings aside, thinking we will deal with them later. If we don’t deal with them, we end up storing them in our minds and bodies and this is when anxiety and other health issues can arise. Denying what our bodies want to feel can lead to trouble now or down the line, which is why being in the thick of our feelings, no matter how scary it seems, is really the best thing we can do for ourselves.

One of the reasons we tend to hide or push aside our feelings is that we live in a culture that has not traditionally supported emotional awareness. However, as the connection between mind and body–our emotions and our physical health– becomes clearer, awareness of the importance of feeling our feelings has grown. There are many books, classes, workshops and retreats that can help us on our way to emotional intelligence. We can also trust in our own ability to process what comes up when it comes up. If sadness arises, we can notice its presence and welcome it, noting where in our bodies we feel it, and allowing ourselves to express it through tears or a quiet turning inward.

When we simply allow ourselves to fully feel our feelings as they come, we tend to let them go easily. This is all we are required to do; our feelings simply want to be felt. We often complicate the situation by applying mental energy in the form of analysis, when all we really need is to allow, as the earth allows the rain to fall upon it. As the rain falls, the earth responds in a multitude of ways, sometimes emptying out to form a great canyon, sometimes soaking it up to nourish an infinitude of plants. In the same way, the deeper purpose of our feelings is to transform the terrain of our inner world, sometimes creating space for more feelings to flow, sometimes providing sustenance for growth. All we need to do is allow the process by relaxing, opening, and receiving the bounty of our emotions.

@Cherie,

Thank you for your prayers again. My sister went home this morning. All we can say is
so far so good now the real pain will start it’s known as healing.

Cherie I would have made a new thread had it not been for us losing Mcpoopoo.
I just did not have the heart to start over but I will make a new one after this month.

I am going to let people know how to post on this thread. I can remember when
there were dozens of threads where people could just drop in anywhere and write.
I don’t know what happened to those thread my Thread is my Diary and from the start
I planned it that way. I work hours on it and to have people post anywhere messes up the
way I want it to look. I know people think I am picky. LOL!

I know it is public but I created it and I have kept it for 5 years. 🙂
This is my baby and sorry but I don’t think it is fair to just mess things up after all these years.
Cherie my real fear is the Community will close that is what I am worried about and one of
the main reason I have not changed the thread.

I don’t want to lose all the friendship it has taken me years to get. Yeah that matters too.
Cherie you have been here on this thread a while thank you for how you post. I have never
had a problem with the way you post one or two or three is fine because you send a
message in your post. 🙂 Nothing is wrong with a shout out. One day I will show you the
picture that got me that you posted here. I almost could not believe it and I never said
another word. I know I am writing too much which I hate to do. I guess it’s nerves but
I will be very up front about how I want things to look. I will tell you another secret why
that is important another day.
Enjoy the Captain and the kids.

This is tea.

@loaf,

Good Morning Loaf I am the queen of poof too. I just learned how to work it. I am sorry
for the emails. Loaf thank you for your prayers sister went home this morning so far
so good. Please keep me in your prayers. Hugs to the your kiddies and fur babies. 🙂

I hope your weather turns around we are raining and it is dark outside.