Feeling

Well, hi and welcome to Coffee with Phil.

Welcome to this series, Faithfulness Ain't Feelings.

A few weeks ago, I went on a walk with the Lord and I asked the Lord a question.

I said to him, I said, hey, when people enter a new season, you give them a new name.

It would shape the way we live.

And that's going to come through in this series as well.

This series, we only just started it in the last episode, the most previous one to this, Coffee with Phil 182, started off the series, Faithfulness Ain't Feelings.

And you would have heard in the introduction that God has taken me or kicked me off, or you could say launched me on a journey of discovery with regards to the Hebrew word for faithfulness.

The A is for actions or the behaviors you are dri- you are utilizing to achieve those results.

Feelings are what engages you to take those actions, to take those behaviors.

And the thinking, which you were talking about, the thinking behind what elicits an emotion, elicits feelings, that drives you to take an action that has you to achieve a certain type of result.

So it's looking at each one of those four layers of self-awareness and seeing what needs to shift or what you need to underscore to keep getting the results you want or to shift to get results that you want that you're not actually achieving right now.

That feeling saturation blocks processing because...

We also want to move to more of the wise brain as well.

Feelings are valid.

That's fair.

But it doesn't necessarily mean that just because we feel it is an accurate reflection of what's going on or what needs to take place next.

I must figure out how to help them.

And it's useful to be able to look at those feelings, those thoughts that are probably coming up for this parent.

And just to get in touch with those feelings.

And, you know, they have this old saying, position, heal thyself.

Yeah, right.

Just didn't observe that that emotion sometimes doesn't get acknowledged.

And, um, uh, But yeah, I would want to offer like a lot more empathy.

Like David just offered a number of different feelings that this individual is probably feeling.

And once you notice them, you can start letting some of that tension go.

Thich Nhat Hanh said, Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky.

Conscious breathing is my anchor.

I love the idea of having an anchor because sometimes we don't need to solve everything that's swirling around us.

I just think of that just thinking about just letting it come out.

Let that frothiness come out and just keep feeling, you know, feeling it, feeling it.

F-I-L-L-I-N-G that and F-E-E-L-I-N-G and just allowing

it.

Feeling and feeling.