Concept of Self Feelings

Feelings can’t rule you if the concept of self isn’t created. This concept of self is the operating system behind your feelings. When this self isn’t attaching to the outside circumstances of life, there is peace…

Feelings are something that most people don’t give much thought to. The self appointed experts with their degrees will say they’re needed and people go along with this without investigating if it’s true. I say the hell with the experts and their degrees because if I followed the nonsense that is spewed from the arrogance of their degrees, I would be dead. For me the turning point in learning about feelings was in being aware of how they all arise from the core of “I”. What was revealed to me is that there’s a created self that gets tied into feelings in many ways. The concept of this sense of self is the operating system behind all feelings. These feelings are tied into how you see yourself, for instance the feeling of guilt arises when you do something you were taught was bad or wrong. Feeling anger arises when this self is hurt in some way. Fear feelings arise when your self is threatened. Feeling sad arises when there’s disappointment. All these feelings arise because of very different circumstances, but this is as far as most people get when it comes to understanding feelings.

The way I investigated feelings is not in how they were different, but what they all had in common, this was where my focus centered. What this led me to see was there’s one common source of every feeling and that source is the created self; feelings can’t rule you if a self isn’t created. Investigate this for yourself, don’t listen to anyone and their view, develop your own. I said earlier that my feelings would have killed me because I had a tendency when reacting to things to use things that were self destructive. It’s not this way today because I’ve learned somewhat (nobody’s perfect) not to attach to a self that gives my feelings life. When there’s not this self reacting to the outside circumstances of life, there’s much more balance to remain at peace and not do something just because a feeling arises…