SUPERFEELINGS

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Goethe

Feelings are complex. In fact they are so complex that we build entire languages in order to attempt to understand them and there are a thousand words for what is really just a single sensation. We can easily obsess about our feelings as if they are a justified response to a fairly brutal existence - an existence that constantly challenges us to REACT to it and UNDERSTAND our relation to it. When we obsess about our feelings, when we are thinking about them, trying to work them out, trying to be judge and jury on whether our feelings are honest and true or deceptive and false, real or imagined we are intellectualizing a single universal sensation.

We use vast amounts of our positive human energy, (henceforth referred to as PHE) in attempting to rationalize our feelings as if they are the most important thing in the world and are our guiding lights. But our feelings are just like butterflies in our stomach, flying into our minds at the slightest cue or trigger. They are real but they are not beasts which need trouble us when we have what I call SUPERFEELINGS.

In psychological counselling it is general practise to encourage  patients to express their feelings and for good reason. Feelings need to fly, like those metaphysical butterflies, and flutter freely between the pit of the stomach, where they are born, and the mind where they are actioned upon, considered and rationalized. However, we need no more be at the mercy of our feelings, than we need be at the mercy of the external agencies that wish to induce our feelings - often negative feelings of inadequacy or danger to sell us something or belittle us.

Feelings can infect the mind if we take them as honest messengers of the soul. They can take us to dark and lonely places. Human and institutional vampires sometimes want to engineer our feelings to make us useful to them in emotional or economic ways. Superfeelings will make us immune to these demands.

Superfeelings are one of the 7 forgotten powers that together will enable us to be impervious to the myths that sap our PHE so that we can get on with our real work.