How am I feeling?
I ask myself this question often. How am I feeling? It is a simple question and yet can be very difficult to answer. Oftentimes I will be journaling, writing down all my thoughts and then I will suddenly realize that nothing of what I have written is about how I actually feel. I’ve written ideas I have, thoughts going through my mind, I analyze those thoughts to try to figure them out better but the entire time I’m doing that I am not actually exploring how I feel.
So, I pause. I ask myself “How am I feeling?.” Then I sit with that for a moment. I look at those words written on my journal page, I look up and take in the room around me - my dog sleeping soundly on her bed, the light falling on the wall. I look out the window and notice the expanse of the sky, the blue (when we are lucky here in the UK) poking through the clouds. And I breathe. I settle myself into the space and I reflect on the question, “How am I feeling?.”
The question invites me to stop for a moment. To stop the racing thoughts, to stop the analyzing, to stop the questioning, to stop the internal monologue. It is brief but it gives space. And in that space I can get a sense of how I am actually feeling. I can get a sense of what my body is trying to tell me. I can get a sense of “I am ok” or, possibly, “In this moment, I am facing difficulty,” but either way I am getting in tune with myself and from this point can choose what I want to do next, what I need next for myself.
So, I invite you to consider the question for yourself, “How am I feeling?”
Thank you for being here,
Morrissa
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