The 40 day focus is a great way to become very aware of times when you are in the flow, feeling expansive and joyful and in love with life. It could take a week or two or perhaps more but when you are truly moving directly into the deepest, darkest feelings and questioning the beliefs that take you there on the way to whatever you want more of in your life you're bound to run right smack into the expansive feelings that are pushing up the constricting ones.
If you have been noticing a lot of fear, guilt or shame when you do your check ins, you may already have discovered that fear is really excitement without the breath as Fritz Pearl the founder Gestalt therapy noted. The two feelings live very near each other in the body and when you breathe love and compassion into the fear what often happens is that the feeling shifts subtly and starts moving upward. This is excitement which is akin to joy. You might say fear is joy being held down and squeezed into submission. When you breathe into where the fear lives in the body and question the validity of fear based beliefs something's gotta give. It may just be a wellspring of joy that gets released which has been held captive for who knows how long.
Because there is so often a belief that there's something wrong when uncomfortable feelings show up there is rarely the awareness that an opportunity may just have come knocking on your door.
What if in order for trapped joy to be released pressure is built up increasing the level of discomfort? What if when you learn to see it from a totally different perspective you realize there's potential for something amazing to be brought forth here? What if you could just breathe into the place where the discomfort is strongest and allow it to move? What if you found that the uncomfortable, fearful feelings were really signals that there was more joy, more peace, more love ready to be birthed? Hmm... I wonder what might be possible then.
Excellent words as always. Very interesting connection.
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