split between our head and our heart. Long ago we started closing down on our feelings and escaping into the disconnected land of thinking. Every time we repress an emotion we become a little more disconnected from our feelings, a little more neurotic and a little more dissociated. Humans are either thinking or feeling. We have achieved amazing feats with


our intellect: global communication and travel, advanced medical treatments, extraordinary standards of living… but there is a dark side to our intellect – separation. The world of thinking is an abstraction that happens in a bubble (as cartoons depict). From our intellect we can rationalise and justify anything: dropping atom


//YOUR PAIN, STRUGGLE AND HEARTACHE IS LIFE


CALLING YOU; CALLING YOU TO LOOK INSIDE, HEAL, OPEN YOUR HEART AND LIVE YOUR PURPOSE HERE ON EARTH.//


bombs on people, genocide, clearing of forests for plantations, use of toxic pesticides... The rational mind is into efficiency: increasing profits, saving time… but so often diminishing the quality of life too.


Through our feelings we connect. Through our feelings we come into relationship with life: we experience the present moment, our body and our heart. Through feeling we connect to the life force that animates all things; we feel the juice of life! The land of feeling has three


deepening domains: the body, our emotions, and our heart. Through our body we experience


the richness of life: the smell of coffee, the taste of wine, colours of autumn, the sound of the ocean and the touch of a lover. Through our emotions we experience


the energy of life: the passion of what we care for, the joy of what we love, the alertness of what we fear, the power


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