An emotion can contain useful information about a situation, a need or a memory. It does not always provide a complete account of what is happening now.
In the Conscious Feeling approach, noticing a feeling includes noticing the body: a tight jaw, warmth in the chest, a change in breathing or the urge to move away. Different people experience emotions differently.
Naming an experience gently can create space for a more deliberate response. ‘I feel disappointed’ gives more room than ‘Everything is ruined.’ Neither naming nor reflection requires us to deny pain or force ourselves into positivity.
Feeling is central to the Conscious Feeling practice of intention. We invite people to connect an intention with a felt experience of gratitude, possibility or belonging, then carry that experience into how they act.
Brain–heart coherence is part of our practice of bringing attention, breath, thought and feeling into one direction. Gratitude, compassion, confidence and connection become qualities to experience and return to.
Bring it into your day.
Name one feeling as specifically as you can. Notice one physical sensation. Ask what support or small action would be useful, rather than what you are supposed to feel.
From the Conscious Feeling teachings and Arf’s Embrace the Superhuman.