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Inner Harvest 3/26
Topic Started: Mar 26 2005, 04:39 AM (26 Views)
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"Inner Harvest"
Hazelden Meditation Series

With abstinence, we feel both joy and sorrow more acutely.

We can dull our feelings by overeating and numb them by undereating. Both
are ways in which we anesthetize our emotions.

Most of us would probably rather not feel pain, but the price of shutting
down our feelings is high, since we miss having delightful feelings as well
as unpleasant ones. Many of us were so accustomed to concealing our emotions
that we weren't sure what it was we were feeling or if we were feeling
anything at all!

Once we are eating normally, we begin to experience more deeply how it feels
to be angry or sad or afraid. We develop a greater capacity to feel joy and
happiness. We find we can ride out emotional ups and down and learn from
them. It is as though we are waking up to a full range of emotions, which
are ours to feel and express.

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Today, I will not hide from my emotions--they are part of me.



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