Can You Feel Your Thoughts? Wait… What the Hell?

Yes, I believe we are able to “feel” our thoughts. In our head & in our body. Thoughts have a kind of weight or mass when you think them. What I mean is the sensation of how they feel when you think them.

Try this simple experiment:

Think the thought below and as you think it ask yourself “How does that feel in my head, in my body as I think it?”

*“I’m proud of when I (an accomplishment you did that you loved)!”

Now, think this thought and as you think it ask yourself “How does that feel in my head, in my body as I think it?”

*“I’m ashamed of when I (a specific behavior that you wish you didn’t do)”

Were you able to feel the difference physically?

*If so, try it again to really solidify that experienced sensation.

*If not, take 3 deep breaths and allow yourself to slow down as best you can, then try it again.

What you just did was to open up to a simple awareness of how a thought “feels” when you think it.

The benefit of this simple, gentle awareness can be profound when explored.

*It speaks to our ability to:

a)recognize how the thoughts we think are making us feel in the moment.

b)And, perhaps, more importantly, how we can consciously CHOOSE our thoughts and, thus, affect how we feel.

*And, that’s the key: To bring us back to CHOICE over and over again.

*Now, I will certainly not discount the struggle we have all face when previously deeply ingrained thought habits paralyze (temporarily) our ability to choose.

*Yet, I will, however, suggest even in such paralysis, we can STILL CHOOSE how to think about our paralysis! Do we decide to compound our struggle or hold it from a place of kindness?

*In doing we so, we bring ourselves back to CHOICE once again, but, also, from a place on SELF-COMPASSION. Two for one!!

What will you CHOOSE to think today?

Did this resonate? I’d love to hear your thoughts…