Daily Meditation: Saturday, January 14, 2012

Emotions and feelings - cultivating those that have a beneficial effect on our health

01/14/2012

You must all have experienced the effect your thoughts and feelings have on your physical functioning. But mostly you will only have observed this when you had negative thoughts and feelings, such as anger, fear, annoyance and jealousy, or emotions brought on by bad news. Then the body’s glandular secretions are disrupted, the nervous system is upset, and you get headaches, bouts of nausea, stomach cramps and pains. So you all know from experience that certain feelings and emotions can make you ill. But how many of you really do anything to avoid them, to control yourselves and, above all, to cultivate feelings and emotions that bring you delight, that strengthen you and improve your health? And yet, it is easy to understand that, just as you get weak when you give in to negative states of consciousness, so you become strong, free and more alive when you work with positive states.