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Taking that approach requires you to establish a belief first. The belief that the emotion comes before the belief. Do you see the contradiction?

I trust my intuition these days more than I ever have. To me, intuition feels different to a feeling. It has more depth & detail, it feels almost like being guided.

My first real step in experiencing this more trustworthy source of direction was dissolving my fears. The second step was feeling love for everything & everyone. I've been tearing down & rebuilding beliefs for 15 odd years now but those 2 things had more impact than anything else. Those 2 emotions allowed me to erect a more useful belief system.

❤️ I believe there is nothing to fear in this realm, so when I feel fear it's like a slap in the face. I believe that all fear is irrational & that the fear is pointing to a belief I carry that no longer serves me.

💚 I believe that we are all one. All from the same source. I think of this belief & then fill my heart with love for myself, in all my shapes, sizes & colours.

🧡 I then connect to my intuition which I believe comes from my soul.

Sedj 1y ago

I can appreciate all of this, and like everything, it may just come down to semantics. I do not see a contradiction, as experiencing emotion does not require belief, but belief (in my opinion) requires an emotional component).

Intuition is an emotionally charged experience. Our soul is emotion, and emotion is the differentiator between one soul and another. Whether all souls are part of one soul (or merely facets or expressions of one soul) or not isn't much of a question, because at least in this plane of existence, they are differentiated (separated) by emotion.

I cannot feel what anyone else is feeling. My feelings may be similar, but cannot be identical.

From that simple differentiation, everything else becomes differentiated. I do not see exactly what anyone else sees; I do not believe what everyone else believes... because sensory input, beliefs, all of it has an emotional component.

Understanding this has allowed me to love harder than ever before, because I am loving the other for their otherness, rather than for similarities or congruities.

Fear is an emotional response to the unknown. As I believe all emotions are true and valid, I would say that fear is true and valid. How we come to use that emotion may often be irrational though.

I embrace the Vedic construct of all matter being one, and formed as expressions of our souls.

I think we have arrived at very similar places in view. Good to find someone that at least works to understand themselves.

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Brisket 1y ago

Words can be clunky tools for expressing this stuff.

If your model is working for you then I'm happy for you. All models are imperfect representations of whats really going on.

I know I'm more mind dominant than many people. I like logic & thinking and spent much of my life largely disconnected from heart. Finding that connection has been beneficial for my experience.

This is all a journey & the lessons don't seem to stop coming.

🙏💚

Sedj 1y ago

I understand well. My mh counselor found me overly intellectual - definitely wrapped up in layers of analysis and logic. I only felt breakthroughs when I began to embrace emotion (pun intended), although I had some earlier success with self esteem. I've written about a lot of it here along the way.

I'm happy for you as well, and it is great to meet another of the folks I would happily stand beside, peering out into the abyss. If I cannot feel your emotion, I can still support your journey.

Brisket 1y ago

Yes - it's nice to know there are other explorers out there. 🫂

Is it possible that what you call emotion, encompasses what I call frequency?

All actions, thoughts & feelings carry a frequency. It's the frequency we're perceiving through our senses.

Sedj 1y ago

It is possible - and again, maybe more similar to what I have thought of as field energy. Kind of like magnetic fields or light diffusion, but I feel there there are many field energies that we experience. And the energies work with each other, so a disruption or change in one field energy can have an effect on another field energy.

Would you consider yourself a materialist? Based on your concept of frequency, I could assume not, but bettsr to just ask.

I generally think of matter as stored information, so it completely makes sense to me that transfer and creation of information through actions, thoughts, and feelings would be frequency as you say, and our senses would be sensing frequency (your model) or field energies (my model).

Brisket 1y ago

I'm not familiar with the concept of a materialist.

Sedj 1y ago

As I understand it (and was using it), a materialist believes reality is based in matter. This is the general approach of the hard sciences, physics, math, etc. Even a lot of philosophy is based in materialism - see Descartes, for example, although philosophers tend to struggle with existence beyond matter. Even religions tell their creation myths in terms of matter and objects.

Brisket 1y ago

This reminds me of Watt's prickles & goo.

I started in the prickles camp & I'm a slowly coming over to the goo side.

https://v.nostr.build/QSX6HtaOGoVpcG2t.mp4