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This is a simple self-reflection exercise that can bring greater clarity to your current challenges and offer a path to more gratitude.
➜ You will get the best results if you take a piece of paper or a notebook and write the sentences down. You can also do this exercise mentally, but it might lack clarity and you cannot reflect on your past feelings after a while.
Write at least one sentence about each feeling
Don’t think. Just feel. What do you feel in the here and now when you search for something matching inside? You can choose any order you like:
- I feel LOVE, because …
- I feel peace, because …
- I feel joy, because …
- I feel sadness, because …
- I feel anger, because …
- I feel fear, because …
Some of the words do not resonate with you?
You can intuitively change them to better suit your personal experience:
- LOVE → Affection, connection, warmth, caring, devotion, tenderness, …
- Peace → Balance, relief, acceptance, serenity, stillness, calm, …
- Joy → Happiness, delight, excitement, bliss, …
- Sadness → Grief, loneliness, disappointment, sorrow, …
- Anger → Frustration, annoyance, irritation, resentment, bitterness, …
- Fear → Nervousness, worry, insecurity, unease, anxiety, doubt, …
What if you currently don’t feel sadness, anger or fear, or any of the alternative expressions for them? First, ask yourself in complete honesty if there is any possible ‘spiritual bypassing’ going on that is making you not want to see your sadness, anger or fear.
Personally, it helps me to see if I have any micro-movements, like a little twitch in a nerve, which can sometimes act like an inner truth detector or an inner pendulum for finding an honest answer.
Then focus on the other feelings. It is helpful to always write a sentence or two for LOVE, peace and joy, as these will increase your gratitude and attract more experiences into your life that will make you feel even more like this.
➜ Repeat the exercise as often as you like during the day for at least a week and see how it changes you. Maybe you even want to make this a new daily habit in your life?
Want to make this exercise even more effective?
Read what you have written to someone you trust. Or meet and give each other a safe space to share your feelings and emotions one-on-one: the other soul listens attentively, perhaps gently encouraging or guiding you to reveal more.
Just by sharing your sadness, fears or anger with someone, these feelings and the personal patterns and dependencies associated with them can loosen and even dissolve.
By sharing your feelings of LOVE, peace and joy with someone, you can raise your frequencies and those of the listener. You may even both feel an astral tingle, an inner excitement and ecstasy flowing through every cell of your body.
