The Feeling and the Mind
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How do you feel when your ideas or ways are challenged by nay-sayers? Does it cause you to question your own thinking or belief, or does it remind you that you are on a less-traveled path that just may lead to a new innovation?
As soon as we hit school, at a ripe young age, human beings have an incessant urge to belong to a group. Those that go against the grain are labeled anything from odd to antisocial, maybe flakey or ungrounded in reality.
There has been some opposition to holistic medicine and energy wellness modalities. This may be partly due to its inherent abrasion to conventional, cookie-cutter belief systems and religious programming, in addition to tireless tomes of medical research and 4 out of 5 doctors telling us what truth is. We have become a society afraid to think outside the box, color outside the lines, and say something that may disrupt the status quo.
Therefore, many of us practicing these modalities feel some need to be a part of the groupthink mindset, perhaps just for the idea that there is strength in numbers, or to even validate our own processes as we have spent time fighting conventionalism. We know we have witnessed the uncommon and are the exceptions, yet are waiting for someone else to show validity, concrete science, or an ancient stone text outlining our validations. Small truths get spun into fad diets and trends; cure-alls that are not customized emerge, leaving out all variables and the obvious uniqueness of each human body and individual condition.
What has that brought us? In my opinion, it has fostered a reclusiveness of spirit, and a stagnation of society. Furthermore, practices become ritualized and dogmatic, becoming the very thing we felt had hindered us from the beginning through our journeys. We see problems all around that seem so complex, and simple answers are deemed heretical.
We know to avoid the mind, for the true reality is not a formulaic matrix of set possibilities, yet we cling desperately to the brain to prove what we already feel.
For far too long, we have exulted the mind, intelligence and rational thinking as our master. We must first identify this backward thinking and begin moving forward with our innate abilities of intuition; "I know those are supposed facts but... Something just doesn't FEEL right." This FEELING is our creation point forward. This FEELING pushes passed the logical mind of complex solution, wrought with over-analyzing and wrapped in limitation. The feeling knows the things for which we have no words.
We already have our proof; we have all of the answers we need. The feeling lies within the heart:
“Behold, you delight in truth in the inward beingnand you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.” Psalm 51:6
"The heart does not calculate in numbers; it confers contentment, which is immeasurable. That contentment can only arise through faith." Atharva Veda
"Faith is a knowledge within the heart; beyond the reach of proof." Khalil Gibran