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LESSON FOUR
I'll never forget that day because the weather outside perfectly mirrored the
emotionally charged coaching session I was experiencing inside. I had just
completed a session with a client who had a Ph.D. in mental health, when she
exploded saying, "You don't know a damn thing about feelings!" Her emotional
outburst angered me, for deep within me I realized that she was right. My client's
intense frustration changed my life because her feelings made me realize that my
Spirit was crying out for me to learn all that I could about the Language of
Feelings.
The Language of Feelings is the language of your intuitive Self! Your heart feels
the intuitive messages that are sent to you by Spirit. Your uncomfortable feelings
are messages that you are out of harmony with your Self. When you resist, repress,
or deny your feelings, you disconnect yourself from your Self. Since the average
emotional age of the adults in the US is only fourteen, and since most fourteen year
olds have not mastered how to communicate their feelings, most of us have
modeled caretakers who never learned how to maturely communicate how they
feel.
“Focus your attention on the feelings inside you. Don’t think about it,
don’t let your feelings turn into thinking. Stay present,
and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside of you!”
ECKHART TOLLE
The Language of Feelings is Yin energy. My experiences have taught me that the
majority of us are disconnected from, and are resistant to, reconnecting with our
Yin or feeling energy. Yin energy is the nurturing, intuitive, sensitive energy that
all humans possess.
I thank God that at least sometimes our society rewards women for displaying their
feelings. In the book, Women and Their Emotions, author Miriam Neff states that,
"There's something to be gained from a women's perspective on feelings. Women's
feelings are typically more intense than a man's." Dr. Elaine Aron supports Neff's
viewpoint about women's heightened emotional intensity in her book, The Highly
Sensitive Person. Dr. Aron notes that twenty percent of the population possesses
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highly sensitive nervous systems and that ninety percent of these highly sensitive
persons are women.
Your feelings are messages sent to you by your Self to help you feel your way
through life. As you learn how to interpret the Language of Feelings, you’ll begin
to feel your healing feelings, which will help you to row your boat serenely down
the stream of life.
A HU NOTE: The challenge most people have with processing their feelings is that they are trying
to process them through their “thinking mind.” You can’t THINK your FEELINGS. You either feel
them or you repress them with THOUGHTS.
When your Self sends you an intuitive message, such as frustration, it’s trying to
communicate to you that something you are doing (or not doing) is out of harmony
with your spiritual purpose for living (your Dharma). If you try to THINK about
what you’re FEELING, you’ll simply pull up your history software from your
mind. Your mind is a quagmire of recorded thoughts from your personal history. In
an attempt to feel safe, sane, or secure, your mind will remember similar situations
from your past. Therefore, if your past relationships were filled with heartbreak,
then your mind, in an attempt to keep you from re-experiencing pain, will create
any evidence that your ego needs to believe that your new relationship will also
cause you pain. Your mind will try to tell you with thoughts how you “should feel”
about your new relationship. This reminds me of the spiritual joke that asks… “Are
you shoulding on your Self again?”
On my journey home to my Self, I discovered that I was rarely upset for the
reasons my ego mind thought. My mind was constantly trying to justify my
thoughts in an attempt to make me right. My mind made people, who used to
trigger me emotionally, into enemies so that my anger was justified and my attacks
warranted.
In order to change, I first had to be willing to lower my defenses and allow my Self
to be emotionally vulnerable. By doing meditative practices, I realized that the
walls I had erected to protect myself also kept the love and intimacy out. Living a
spiritually awakened life takes a lot of emotional courage because you must learn
to trust your inner Self enough to lower your defenses.
I’m extremely grateful that I discovered John Gray’s Feelings Chart. As soon as I
saw it, I knew that John had saved me years of trial and error by developing a tool
that would help me understand the Language of Feelings. Thank you God. Thank
you John.
A HU NOTE: “Feelings aren’t right or wrong – they just are! Feelings are intuitive communications
from your Self. They are the Language of Feelings!”
Your HEALING FEELINGS are intuitive messages that are sent to you by your
Spirit. Your uncomfortable feelings aren’t bad or wrong; they are just emotional
warnings that you are out of harmony with your Self! When you resist, repress or
deny your healing feelings, you disconnect yourself from your inner Self.
A JI NOTE1: In deciphering the Language of Feelings Chart, I find that the easiest way to begin is
by looking at the “Emotional Block” column, which is on the far right. I start here because I am
usually blocking my healing feeling. As an example, I will take the first emotional block of
“Blame.” If I find myself blaming someone for my problems, and I look all the way over to the left
on the chart under “Healing Feeling,” I see that what I am really feeling is Anger. But why am I
angry? For some insight into this question I look at the next column labeled “Holistic Function,”
and I see that the reason that my intuitive heart is sending me an anger message is to tell me that
my boundaries have been violated. To double check this translation, I can then look to column #3,
“General Feeling,” to see if I have been feeling betrayed in any way. Remember that the Language
of Feelings is not an “exact science.” You may be feeling more than one healing feeling or be
experiencing more than one emotional block. The purpose of the Chart is to help you to decipher
the language….not unlike a foreign language dictionary – it can help you to a degree –
but you have to put the words together to form a meaning.
The more you feel your HEALING FEELINGS (left column), the better you’ll feel
and the faster you’ll heal! The longer you BLOCK your HEALING FEELINGS
with UNHEALTHY EMOTIONS (right column), the worse you’ll feel and the
longer it will take you to heal. Feelings are listed below as nouns; change them to
adjectives if you prefer: angry, sad, scared, sorry, frustrated, disappointed,
worried…ashamed, etc
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Ji~ is Jane Christ’s spiritual name.
DISAPPOINTMENT is the energy that will help you to detach and move
on with your life when things end. When you refuse to feel your natural
WORRY helps you to take action and prepare for the project at hand.
When you block yourself from feeling worried because you are not
well prepared, you will procrastinate about what to do and you will not
take the actions that are necessary for you to succeed.
ENVY is a motivational feeling that helps you to change for the better.
If you block yourself from feeling envious, you become jealous of what
other people have.
HURT helps you to become aware of the source of your pain so that
you can heal it. When you don't allow yourself to feel hurt, you slip
into a cycle of self-pity and go around feeling sorry for yourself.
SHAME is the energy you feel when you do something that doesn't
serve you or others well. If you have the emotional courage to feel the
shame associated with your actions, you will feel remorseful, which
will help you to not do it again. But when you don't feel the shame
associated with your less- than-perfect actions, you will feel guilty
about what you did, which solves nothing. Guilt is self-judgment,
where shame helps you to own why your less-than-perfect actions
don't work, which helps you not to do it again…
If you block your healing feelings, you are blocking all the benefits from coming to
you, which makes your life much more difficult than it needs to be because, by
blocking your healing feelings, you are disconnecting yourself from your Higher
powers.
There are two ways that you can process your life: through your intuitive heart
(feelings) or through your intellect (ego mind). I believe that processing your life
by FIRST using your intuitive heart is extremely important because it allows you
to draw upon your connection with infinite wisdom. After you feel emotionally
centered and you can feel what it is you want to do (or not do), then you can
process it through your intellectual mind.
You can visualize the two ways of processing your life using this illustration. Your
ego mind is like a small desktop computer. It’s a defensive, fear-based system
designed to protect you by recording any stimuli that has caused you pain in your
past. Its primary function is survival. It’s a system that uses the language of
WORDS as its energy source.
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time, and denial of the present.
Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry, and all forms of fear are caused by
too much future, and not enough presence.
Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness
are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”
ECKHART TOLLE
Your Spirit is also like a computer, but it’s as big as a 100-story building. It’s
a love-based system, designed for growth, empowerment, creation, mastery,
and unity. It’s a system that uses the language of FEELINGS as its energy
source.
A HU NOTE: Are you a think-aholic? Most of our society is made up of people
who use thinking as their primary way of processing their life. Personally,
I've spent most of my life as a think-aholic. Most people can't distinguish
the difference between their thinking mind and their Spirit,
and therefore their ego becomes their god.
By first processing your life through the Language of Feelings, you are
allowing your heart to feel, from a place of infinite wisdom, love, and
compassion, what your Spirit is trying to communicate to you. But, when
you process your life through your ego mind first, you are using a fear-based
system, which was designed to keep you safe at all costs—meaning, it’s a
To help you determine your healing feeling objectives, one of the SMA
questions asks you to rate each of the following from one to ten, with ten
being the truisms that most highly emotionally resonate with your personal
history. After rating them all from 1-10, select your top ten, rewrite them in
first party and entitle them … My Healing Feeling Objectives.
⇒ Most people are think-aholics because they can't distinguish the difference between
their thinking mind and their Spirit; therefore their ego becomes their god.
⇒ What is painful is resisting, blocking and denying your true healing feelings, not
feeling them.
⇒ When you feel your painful feelings, you are releasing your “emotional constipation”
associated with them, which makes you feel great.
⇒ As children, many people had to substitute ego defenses for the absent love of their
emotionally distant caretaker. They used these ego defenses to feel loved, protected,
appreciated, and safe. It was a kind of “short-term high” that numbed the painful feelings
that were created by emotional violations of distance.
⇒ It’s better to feel your blocked feelings for ten minutes in order to heal them, than to
keep blocking them, which causes you to relive them over and over again for the next ten
to twenty years.
⇒ Your uncomfortable feelings aren’t bad or wrong; they are just emotional warnings
that you are out of harmony with yourself! When you resist, repress, or deny your feelings,
you disconnect yourself from your inner Self.
⇒ Feelings never lie, but your ego does. It tells you rational-lies.
⇒ Let your feelings be what they are… intuitive messages from your Self. If you are
feeling sad, feel sad; don’t think about why you are feeling sad; just feel sad.
As soon as she stopped RESISTING feeling cold, she took action to feel
better. Nothing changes until it becomes what it actually is! And so it will be
with you. As soon as you allow yourself to FEEL your healthy feelings,
you’ll take action and feel better quickly.
What you are experiencing when you don’t allow yourself to feel your
natural healing feelings is resistance. This resistance creates uncomfortable
sensations caused by your BLOCKING what you are actually feeling. The
uncomfortable sensations that emotional blocks create are actually your
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resisting what your spirit wants you to feel in order to help you to
emotionally realign yourself.
A HU NOTE: Usually when someone evolves to the point that they can enjoy
reading a spiritual textbook like this one, they have taken the thinking train of life
as far as it was designed to go. Now if they choose to transcend their thinking mind (ego),
they must be willing to switch trains and board the feeling train, because feeling
is the language of your intuitive heart, which is the language of your spirit!
While growing up, many of us heard our parents make statements to us such
as, “How dare you get angry at me, I’m your mother!” “I’ll give you
something to be sad about.” “There’s nothing to be afraid of!” “Now, now
don’t cry!” “You think you’re sorry now… wait until I get a hold of you!”
“What does a child of your age have to worry about?” So, is it any wonder
that you BLOCK your HEALING FEELINGS?
Don’t be surprised if you feel several feelings at once. Just ask your Self,
“Which one is my most powerful feeling?” After awhile you’ll know what
your primary feeling is because it will FEEL right to you. Then simply allow
your Self to feel sad if you feel sad or feel angry if you feel angry. Don’t
allow your mind to fret over why you’re feeling what you are feeling (which
is thinking vs. feeling), just allow yourself to feel what you are feeling until
you get an intuitive “Aha!”
Before long, you’ll know why you are feeling the way you are feeling. Your
intuitive Self will communicate to you the purpose for the feeling
communication. If you allow your mind to THINK about what you are
FEELING, you’ll stop your Self from communicating to you what you need
to know. Just allow your Self to feel it. After your intuitive Self has
communicated to you why you are feeling the way you are feeling, you can
then allow your thinking mind to process it using the wisdom that you’ve
acquired through your life experiences. You can learn how to process your
life through the Language of Feelings, like so many others have, if you are
willing to commit, study, practice, and emotionalize these self-mastery
lessons.
A HU NOTE: Again, addictions are another way that we can block our Healing Feelings.
We unconsciously attempt to block our feelings with food, sex, and drugs. We confuse
these temporary “highs” with authentic inner love. Remember that an addiction is any
compulsive act that, no matter how much you do it, will never satisfy your real need.
To get the most out of the FEELINGS CHART you will need to use it as a
general reference guide. For example, if you notice that you are blaming
someone, it won’t always mean that you are repressing anger. It could also
mean that you are afraid or ashamed. So use the chart as a feeling reference
guide, but trust your intuitive Self to tell you what healing feeling you are
really feeling.
If you were raised by parents who knew how to speak the Language of
Feelings, you would process your feelings as naturally and unconsciously as
you do your food. And that’s my hope for you… that you’ll learn how to
speak the Language of Feelings so well that you won’t have to “think” about
it because you’ll become so proficient at feeling your intuitive feelings that
you’ll do it automatically.
DISTURBING FEELINGS
“When I regard a so-called disturbing feeling as a mistake, my spiritual practice becomes a Path of
needing to fix myself. Thus, my spiritual practice becomes the long path!
If I indulge in my so-called disturbing feelings, “thinking” it’s something concrete
when it’s only relatively real, then my disturbing feeling becomes…
the cause that binds me to my Karma.
If I look directly into my so-called disturbing feeling, and I don’t deliberately reject it, or regard it as a
fault, or indulge in it concretely, or regard it as a virtue,
if I just feel it and allow it to be what it is, an intuitive message from my Spirit…
then all my so-called disturbing feelings that arise are WISDOM the moment I relax
enough to feel them with the awareness that what I’m feeling is perfect
for the evolution of my immortal soul!”
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
The Disciplinas and the Spiritual Distinction Meditation will help you to
master your Ego-Mind and open your heart chakra. They will help you to
detach from the extrinsic aspects of daily life. The practice of meditation is
especially important because it trains you to quiet your mind so that you can
hear what your intuitive heart is trying telling you. There are numerous
methods of meditation to choose from. Whichever method you choose, you
will need to practice it daily. Make it a daily habit to go into a meditative
silence, to emotionally align your Self, and to train your Ego-Mind to obey
your Spirit.
FORGIVENESS WILL HELP YOU TO FEEL AGAIN
If you have repressed any anger (a healing feeling) towards someone in your
life, then before you can forgive him or her, you’ll need to express your
repressed anger because what you don’t express, you’ll emotionally repress
and anything that you repress, you get to keep. Anger is a healing feeling
and you can learn how to holistically use it to defend your boundaries. It’s
the flight or fight feeling. If you or someone you love were being attacked,
your body would naturally produce anger for the purpose of protection.
Chemically speaking, we call this an adrenalin rush. The Holistic Function
of “anger” is to produce the life force energy that you need to protect your
boundaries.
When you project negative, hateful, repressed feelings... you lose energy. If
you don’t learn how to “forgive your trespassers,” you’ll find that your life
Until you unconditionally accept your past, it will inhibit you from living
fully present in the now. When you are fully present and focused in the
now… the only thing that exists is love. That’s why awakened masters are
awakened masters… they live fully present in the now. All of their life force
energy is manifesting in the now – unlike many of us whose life force
energy is weakened because our attention is focused in the past or future.
Parents who verbally abuse their children usually do so because it’s what
they learned from their parents. They act out on their children in the same
way that their parents acted out on them. It’s a barbaric tradition where the
sins of the father are passed onto the son – a tradition where control, rigidity,
and perfectionism are more important than self-esteem, self-awareness, and
unconditional love. The only way to break this cycle is to feel your Healing
Feelings and eliminate the Emotional Blocks that are keeping you from
hearing your intuitive messages of love.
THE INTIMACY PARADOX
EMOTIONALLY VULNERABLE AND BOUNDARIES DEFENDED
Paradox is a phenomenon that happens when two concepts appear to be
contradictory, but aren’t. What you’ll come to realize is that
life consists of numerous paradoxes that a Self-mastered person learns to balance.
If, as a child, your parents usually talked to you only to give you orders or to
reprimand you, know that what you experienced is a violation of emotional
distance. Children need hugs, affection, and emotional intimacy from their
parents in order to feel safe and secure! When children don’t receive enough
emotional nurturing, they learn to Block their feelings in order to feel safe.
Very few of us had all of our emotional dependency needs met. Therefore,
as adults we must learn how to fill our own emotional dependency needs. I
designed these Self-mastery lessons to do just that. These emotional
processes will teach you how to fill your emotional dependency needs that
At the end of Karol K. Truman’s book, Feelings Buried Alive Never Die, she
states, “After incorporating these elements into your daily life, it will
become evident to you that you do have the ability to communicate [the
Language of Feelings], to be congruent in what you feel, think, say, and do.”
When you learn how to speak the Language of Feelings, you’ll quickly start
to feel better, better than you’ve ever felt before! Processing your life
through your feelings is ninety percent more energy efficient than thinking,
so you’ll have much more energy to build a life that even the gods
themselves would envy.
“I want to know if you are willing to disappoint another
in order to be true to your authentic self.”
ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER, INDIAN ELDER
When you use the Language of Feelings as the primary way to process your
life, you’ll start to manifest all your hopes and dreams and you’ll feel that…
“I am a Self-mastered Be-ing of light and love. I understand the Language of
my Intuitive Heart, the Language of Love, the Language of Spirit. I can feel
my inner Self and I know that I am ONE with all life everywhere and that
makes me feel wonderful!”
PART 1:
1. Take each one of the Twelve Emotional Blocks from the feelings chart and give real
world examples of how you block your healing feelings instead of feeling what you
are actually feeling. Also, explain how you can use the corresponding healing feeling
instead of the emotional block. Use examples from your daily life (work, spouse,
parents, etc.).
2. Practice validating your feelings by writing why it’s N.ormal, N.atural and
N.eccessary (three N’s) for you to feel your Twelve Healing Feelings using real life
examples.
3. Describe why each of the Twelve Holistic Functions (column two on the Feelings
Chart) are the benefits that you will receive for feeling the Twelve Healing Feelings.
4. How can you form the habit of using the Feelings Chart until you master using it?
5. The Disturbing Feelings Poem…is your action plan. Why is the Disturbing Feelings
Poem your action plan for mastering the Language of Feelings?
6. How can you form the habit of using the Disturbing Feelings Poem until you master
using it?
7. Why is the Spiritual Distinction Meditation… your Exercise Program to teach you
how to feel the difference between your mind and your Spirit?
8. How does the Spiritual Distinction Meditation train you to feel the difference between
your mind and your spirit?
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