Happy New Year! I hope you are all well, feeling good and looking forward to 2024.
I recently read an interesting article in astrology (another interest of mine) and to cut a long story short, planet Pluto moves once every 20 years and it is moving this year, this means 2024 is a transformation year for all of us. Thinking about transformations today I would like to talk about our feelings and emotions, what our bodies are telling us when we feel emotions, be it positive or negative.
First of all, how are you feeling today? What thoughts are running through your head? What emotions are you experiencing?
Recognising and admitting to how you feel is powerful, particularly if you know how to turn them to your advantage and help through challenging times.
If you are in tune with yourself, more often than not our bodies can tell us what is right or wrong for us. Do you feel resistance when it comes to certain situations? Is something or someone making you feel uncomfortable? Or could it be something as simple as walking into a shop and you instantly can feel at ease or not, or wether you want to buy there or not. Is it the atmosphere in the shop that makes you feel good or bad? Is it maybe your finance and you are not sure you can afford, say clothes, in that shop or can it just be a bad day at the office or getting up on a wrong side of the bed?
Well, the negative, uneasy feelings are probably nothing to do with the wrong side of the bed, let’s be honest. Now every time you feel uneasy, I would like you to listen to your body and ask yourself a question. Why am I feeling this way? See what answers might come up. Our bodies are very clever at knowing what’s good for us. The good old saying about a gut feeling is true, I would say 90% of the time. If someone makes you feel uncomfortable and uneasy they might not be the right person for you to hang out with, be with or have in your life (not to be confused with someone who might challenge you which is exactly what you might need/want).
If it is financial and you really want to get something but feeling uneasy and resistant, it might be that you’re not where you want to be financially. Instead of feeling bad, guilty or sorry for yourself ask yourself what can I do, how can I earn more, do more, give more? Try to switch that mindset from feeling bad to feeling inspired. Give yourself a chance to see outside of the box. I know it can be challenging for a lot of people as we are so inside of our box and can struggle to see outside of it.
Quite often we feel tension in our bodies (it might be in the neck, shoulders, or you feel like you can’t get the words out, or butterflies in your stomach, or a frog in our throat). This could be a clue our body is sending us to help understand our emotions and feelings.
We live in the world of social media where we can see and share as much of our lives as we want and I personally don’t mind it at all because I see it as a way of communicating with others and it visually appeals to me. However, there are people to whom social media platforms are not serving well. They see how others “look perfect” and have “perfect lives” and that makes them feel bad about themselves and lowers their self esteem. It can take some work to change that mindset although please don’t be ashamed if that’s how you feel. Learn from it, flick that switch, and get inspired instead.
To the transformational and inspirational 2024!
HEAD & HEART MATTERS 