The synergy of thinking and feeling
I am a person of high intellect. This is not a boast. It is. I read. I think. I consider. I learn from others. I was born this way, with books all around me from very early in my life.
For years, well-meaning people have told me that I must learn to feel — to stop thinking. My mental agility was made wrong, as if it were an affliction preventing me from accessing something.
Granted, there has been a Western Cultural attempt to separate the head from the heart, to stop people from dropping into their hearts and feeling. This attempt by the dominant culture has been very strongly targeted at young boys. Boys don’t cry. Yet boys need to cry. Everyone needs to cry.
I feel. I feel deeply. Feeling is what life does. My little dog feels.
In these times of rampant disinformation, making thinking wrong is dangerous. Incredibly charismatic people, seduced by a cultural narrative of winner-takes-all, prey on those who are weak in their ability to think and discern. The people caught in the web of their charisma easily latch onto conspiracy theories and rubbish propaganda, subjugating their ability to discern to someone they have given authority over their life.
Thinking and discernment are critical skills in a world that has tried to malign thinking, especially scientific and rational thought.
Thinking provides the architecture to feeling. Feeling on its own is chaos and drama. Thinking on its own is clinical and separate.
If we do not temper some feelings, we can more easily become traumatised. I do protect myself at times from feeling too deeply, as that path leads to deep despair, depression, and apathy.
We are too sensitive to feeling, and we fall short in our ability to engage and assert our authorship.
We must stop this ridiculous myth that feeling is the door to some magical kingdom of rightness.
It is to think, feel and be. All. The synergy of thinking and feeling while being fully present is where our evolving self arises.
Photo Taken April 14th 2024
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