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YATL posts and videos can be viewed here on this site. Your financial support makes it possible to continue offering information on this website free of charge. Emotion and feeling are often confused as one and the same, thought to be interchangeable. However, the two are actually quite different and serve different purposes.
Emotions are used for creation. (manifestation)
Feelings are used for communication. (intuition)
Emotion is the power which attracts. Your emotions are created by your thoughts.
If I say “Be Happy,” notice you can grin, but it won’t actually make you happy. You need to think of an event which makes you happy and THAT will lead to an emotional response which we call happiness.
Thought itself is pure energy. Every thought you have, have ever had, or ever will have is creative and produces energy. E-motion is energy in motion. It is the by-product of those thoughts.
This energy you create goes out into the universe and because like-attracts-like, you attract more of the same frequency of energy. When enough “clumps” of like energy come together, they form matter.
This is the essence behind the Law of Attraction.
Think happy thoughts, feel happy, and you’ll attract more situations and people who vibrate at a frequency of happiness.
Why the LoA may seem to take so long is that it takes a lot of “energy” to produce a little bit of “matter”. By focusing your thoughts only on what you want, you put a lot more energy out into the universe attracting what you want and thus manifestation happens much more quickly.
So matter literally forms out of pure energy. Once energy becomes matter, it remains matter for a very long time, unless its construction is disrupted by an opposing form of energy. This dissimilar energy actually dismembers the matter, releasing the raw energy from which it was composed.
This is, in simple terms, the theory behind the atomic bomb. It only takes a little bit of matter to make a HUGE explosion. The LoA is this concept in reverse.
So, emotion is energy in motion, the creative driving force of the universe.
Feeling is the language of the soul.
If you want to know your truth about something, quiet your mind and look at how you’re feeling about it. This is what people mean when they say “I had a feeling that was the right answer.” Consciousness communicates through feelings.
The most magnificent feeling available is that which we call Love. When you are in alignment with the universe, you will feel love as a sort of confirmation that you’re going with the flow.
You’ll then have thoughts based upon these feelings which produce emotions such as happiness.
Whenever you’re wondering what path to take, visualize yourself taking that path. Listen to your intuition and notice which path leads you towards the highest feeling. Follow your intuition and think the thoughts based on this path. The thoughts will produce emotion and the more emotion you have, the faster you’ll attract enough energy to manifest matter in physical form. Take action (inspired action) based upon these thoughts and emotions and you will manifest what it is you visualized down that path.
This is what people mean when they say “Follow your bliss” or “Follow the best feeling thought.” It’s simply a result of understanding how the universe works, how energy works. It’s based on an understanding of how thoughts, feelings, and emotions come together to create whatever it is you desire.
Weren’t we “created in the image and likeness of God?” If so, that means you are God also. You are a creator.
You now know what the tools are. You are God. You realize that you can create too. You know how to start developing these tools. Meditation will help you get out of the mind and into your heart so that you can better listen to your feelings and thus your intuition.
Hearing this stuff, if you feel it resonates with you, it’s because you ALREADY KNOW IT. No one can teach you anything that you don’t already know. They can only help you remember that which you already know. This is why certain things “resonate” with you. It’s because the knowledge is in alignment with your soul and you feel the alignment as resonance, the same way two musical notes resonate together when they’re in harmony.
Trust your feelings.
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This last bit hit home. I visualized walking down a pathway that I intended to be a certain one I had been thinking about it was like whoa. The strong emotion poured forth and it became clear what to do. GREAT post. Peace and joy in all your endeavors.
Ross
This is a tiight post Ariel. It really resonated with me, haha. Great description and clarification on the LoA too.
I was thinking about this a couple of days ago, you put it well.
Tuplads last blog post..Jean Grae & Skillz
Dear Ariel
I used to compare emotions with feelings using the following analogy.
Life(love) is like a vast still pool of fresh water.The water is still,calm and levelled.Every
thought that one takes personally is like a pebble thrown in this pool of fresh water.This
sets out ripples(emotions) in water.
The sight of these ripples itself is so frightening for us before enlightment that we use the
god-gifted hammer(mind) to level these ripples.We usually do it by hitting the hammer
against the head of these ripples without knowing this process would only increase the
magnitude,range and amplitude of these ripples (emotions).
Ofcourse one doesnt keep on hitting the hammer 24×7.So nature here follows a rule:
whenever if one tries to ignore the emotions(ripples) formed, life freezes them like
ice(super-emotional garbage).These freezed ripples remain within our body for years or
even incarnations together until and unless they are resolved by bringing our awareness
onto them(THIS process is similar to the melting of ice by sun).
IN Enlightment all that we learn is ‘HOW NOT TO HIT THE HAMMER IN THE POOL OF LIFE’
which ofcouse sounds very simple and is simple, but not easy .Surrender basically means
becoming aware of the ripples by simply watching them slow down and trusting that the
water will be levelled when allowed since it is its natural state.
However after reading this article i got a bit confuse with this entire analogy.
according to the above analogy emotions are nothing but a resistance to your natural
state.Then howcome they help you create something.Does this mean that in your natural
state(levelled water) one is capable of creating nothing.
I had actually concluded from the above analogy that feelings were nothing, yes nothing but
a flash or glimpse of who you truly ARE.
Could you please kindly explain.
WITH LOVE ALWAYS
BINNOY
Ariel Bravy Reply:
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:19 am
Hey Binnoy,
This is a question I’ve been exploring lately as well. If you’re in a state of deep peace, can you still experience emotion?
We can use techniques like meditation to help us get in touch with the stillness within, to help minimize the distractions, yet eventually we realize that distractions do not replace stillness, they simply distract awareness away from it.
Noise doesn’t destroy silence, but rather makes it harder to hear silence. Yet silence is present even in the loudest of noises.
Going back to your water analogy, it’s like realizing that no matter how much you hit the surface of the water with your hammer and create ripples, you are much deeper than the surface of the water. You are the entire ocean and at your core you are still, even when there is a hurricane raging on the surface.
So you can experience emotion, yet it does not disturb the essence of who you are. Awareness is untouched by any emotion.
It’s like an awakening to the depth of your being, way beyond superficial surface-level appearances.
Love your signoff by the way, With Love Always.