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Blackberry bushes left too long without picking, or being cut back, can become a tangle of vines that keeps us trapped inside or outside our cabin. By then we can’t even reach the berries, and the birds get them all.

While most of us are aware of our own feeling natures, what may be less obvious is how often the force of our feelings colours everything we do. If the force of our feelings swamps us, we feel a lack of support from within. Our feelings are running the show. When our feelings take power, and entangle us, we have surrendered to them.

As we take in information through our senses, we interpret it as a feeling. Our sensory awareness works on the unseen too, so that we cannot always explain our feelings.

This life force is there to serve us by urging us to maintain a
sense of well-being, to connect with others, and to awaken the
passion to “taste” life, and make art. When all our life forces
are in healthy alignment, feelings are one of the servants that
nourish and enable us.

If we pick the berries every couple of days, and cut back the old vines from our entrance every once in awhile, then we can be nourished with their luscious black globes of sweetness all season long.

How can we cut back and clean up our old feelings that no longer serve us ?
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Unlike animals, humans can choose.

Sometimes we can just decide to let them go, express them, or take action on them. We can make a choice to become bigger than the force of our feelings. Whenever we notice a feeling becoming too powerful or no longer serving us, we can own it, then offer it up in surrender.

Just go inside, and quietly surrender.
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When all the life forces are in healthy balance, we do not
surrender to our feelings. We surrender our unhelpful feelings to the One, the Infinite, the Great Life. The ability to forgive
ourselves and others is what allows the healing of any emotional wounds.

All humans share the common desire to be in the flow of the essence of what truly nourishes - the Great Life. Sometimes we feel disconnected, separate from others, reality, the Great Life, or even ourselves. We may have a longing inside that quietly, but continually, prompts us to make a deeper connection to feeling truly alive and connected.

Following your heart is tuning into your inner feelings.
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True inner feelings are pristine: they are not changed in response to external stimuli. Instead, inner feelings are a clarity reflected from deep within our hearts that bring alive a connection to our truth and ourselves. They support and nourish us.

To surrender means to do our best to make a space to be guided by the Creator from within, rather than be led down the garden path by the force of our outside feelings. It is a willingness to let go, to offer up, to ask to be shown, and to make a space for the unexpected, free from any anticipation of the outcome.

It is only when we are aligned with this central unifying force
that we can taste what is real, and follow our heart.