I was asked this question some time ago...and it’s been in the back of my mind every since. This is a heart-opening question. One that makes you pause and think about things that brought you instant joy or instantly caused tears to well up in your eyes without explanation.
Feelings like these are uncontrollable. They just happen.
It’s a “this” happens...then “that” response instantaneously arrives. Like riding a roller coaster...you’re being thrashed about...up...then down...then up...then down...and the whole time your body is responding in realtime.
You walk into an art
museum...and at the end of the hall is hanging one of Claude Monet’s
original water lily paintings. It’s big. Something like 4 feet by
6 feet. And it takes your breath away because you realize the colors
are different than what you’d seen depicted in pictures. Which then
of course means...you’re looking at...and in the presence of...an
original water lily painting by Monet
You get emotional...tears well up in your eyes...and you can’t explain why.
This is what it means to feel. And these are examples of things that make you feel.
When it comes to listening to your body’s conversations with you...what I mean to say here is...when your body is speaking from a soul level to you...these are the things that carry the most meaning in life on earth. The unexplainable...yet SO FULL of knowing that you wouldn’t think of questioning the truths that lay deep within that experience. You just know somewhere deep inside you that this experience was filled to overflowing with meaning and truth and infallibility.
These moments...cannot be described with simple words. There are layers upon layers upon layers of truth and knowing that a simple word cannot contain. And the emotion these moments cultivates is impalpable.
Some more examples...witnessing the birth of a child, the arrival of someone you dearly love at the airport after being absent for too long, a sunrise over the Blue Ridge Mountains, the sound of thousands of gallons of water pouring over a waterfall where you can feel it in the air...and can feel it in your bones.
Maybe now you understand what I’m speaking of here. The deep deep deeply meaningful experiences of being human with a soul. Those moments when something outside of you...where something almost celestial transcends into your personal spaces and touches your heart.
So I’ll ask you again.
What makes you feel?
Photo Credit: Henry Mowry from mowryjournal dot com Sunrise over the Blue Ridge Parkway
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