September Daily Practice Wrap Up: Feel How You Feel

It’s time to wrap up this month’s Daily Practice. Did you join in? Did you make a conscious effort to allow yourself to feel how you feel? What did you notice? Here are my top 5 noticings from this month of feeling how I feel:

1 – If you don’t feel the good emotions, you’ll lose your mojo!

2 – The feeling I tend to suppress the most is sadness. I don’t like being sad, so I tend to try to ignore it and get happy (but there’s an undercurrent of sadness until I allow myself to just be sad 🙁 !).

3 – When I really pay attention to how I feel, and allow myself to feel it fully (where appropriate), the feeling moves on so much more quickly. If I ignore feeling tired or fed up or sad or cross or impatient, the feeling lingers, undermining everything I’m trying to do.

4 – I get more done if I am honest with myself about how I feel. Particularly when I feel tired, I tend to soldier on, being utterly inefficient and making myself miserable. If I take a few minutes to rest, I can come back to everything I’ve really ‘got to do’ with renewed vigour…and often I realise that the tasks I thought I ‘had to’ do aren’t really that important – certainly not more important than my health!

5 – If I’m feeling a ‘low’ emotion – sadness, frustration, anger for example, I most often write it out. If I’m feeling good, I most often sing or dance. It’s fun to switch that around every now and again and dance out the ‘low’ emotions and write about the highs.

I would love to hear your noticings about this month’s Daily Practice – please leave a comment below.

Love

Donna.x