Senses and Feelings

by Christine Hagey

Of all the energyflow relationships that I work to harmonize for both myself and others, there is perhaps no pair more potent with promise or for which lack of harmony has so many variations in experiences than that between what we Sense and what we Feel. A case could be made that every dis-ease, every dis-order, both psychological and physical has its basis in how well we are able to personally balance our senses with our feelings. We have been raised to believe that these were nearly interchangeable, instead of understanding them as a necessary working team , absolutely vital to our smooth functionality./p>

The basis is very simple really ....we are one of the most capable and sophisticated of sensory beings. Everyone. It is part of our birthright and whether or not we choose to consciously take our birthright seriously, we DO sense incredible amounts each and every moment of our lives.  Many were born with ability to work quite consciously with their sensory perception...and throughout history we have called those individuals by various names: sensitives, empaths, psychics....and also we have called them alcoholics, obsessive-compulsives, addicts, schizophrenics and a host of other titles that bring up less than satisfying connotations not to mention lives devoid of true Joy and full of loneliness. Humanity has not until quite recently been in the position to take on responsibility for understanding how incredibly sensitive we all are! There have always been a small minority within humanity who have carried to surface (or consciousness) the thread of sensory knowledge with honor. They were the part of us all that had the role of daring to share their perspectives , mostly in guarded fashions, such as Nostradamus with his famous quatrains. The major flow of humanity has been, until quite recently, absolutely torturous to sensory nurturment of any type. This has been an insistent yet insidious Mass undertone for the most part, but we have cycled to the surface some notable periods in history that encapsulize this palpably: the inquisition and witch trials are two of the more famous. Plenty of fear surrounds our sensory ability, and yet as Mass Conscious awakens, so too is our need to understand what *exactly* our Senses are and to nurture the effervescent bridge between our Senses and our Feelings. Especially for our children who each year are born with less filtering and thus much more vulnerability of heart. They will not choose to survive on this new Earth as we have done, by bringing in mechanisms that help us tone down our sensitivities such as smoking or drinking. Their sensitivity is truly out on their sleeves and it is up to we parents to help them distinguish their senses and feelings so they can Function and exist in JOY.

Back to basics: Many of us can tell the difference between what we sense and what we feel. Or can we??? Personally, I had quite a few blurred lines to clear up surrounding my senses and feelings. This is a journey that continues to unfold for me, and which began with many years devotion to earning emotional detachment and to working from unconditional love.

Some things I have learned along the way:

The major insight for me was when I finally understood that what I felt    was not what is.     In other words, Senses hold promise. Senses ARE. Senses were not, in fact, Feelings. I thought I knew this already but came to understand that I had entwined the two in such a deep way, it was only later by facing the distress I was feeling that I was able to discern the distinction enough to foster it truly. Senses are not good or bad or anything in between. They simply ARE.   Feelings , on the other hand, are what I get after the senses have passed over the bridge that is my nervous system and tell me how I am working with what I sense.  If my nervous system is functional, then I can handle any amount of sensation with grace. Of all the major systems in our physical body, the nervous system - including our brain - is perhaps the one that is still largely a mystery. The nervous system is the bridge that we are constantly building as we work to become ever more comfortable with greater sensitivity. We may ask our nervous systems to keep pace with our senses. For most of my life, I wasn't doing this. I let my poorly tutored nervous system / brain have at it all quite unguided. And I got what I got! A brain which is hooked into a fight or flight system usually tends to run scared and feel threatened with any sense it cannot decode . One cannot work with the sensory information in either of these cases - whether that is to fight it or fly from it. So my first task, and the most difficult for me personally, was to tutor myself to comprehend the vital difference between my senses and my feelings.  I learned that I could simply ask my nervous system to build the connections that would allow me to work with the sensory I was tuning into. No fight or flight - just standing there and allowing myself to sit with it. This was a monumental step for me. It meant that my brain could - finally - use it's incredible analytical ability and potential. Logic could pair with intuitive. What I was sensing could finally be perceived as separate from what I was feeling. I could see for the first time ever that the emotional mazes of feelings that were sometimes overwhelming for me were directly related to whether I was working (aka flowing) well or poorly with that which I was sensing. My life has absolutely been smoother and more fulfilling from that point on. Now my intuitive / empathic abilities are a blessing in helping me live with so much more vibrancy and smoothness that I cannot imagine having any sort of good life without my full sensitivity.

I didn't arrive at this point without quite a bit of help . This help, ironically, was my increased sensitivity....a much more surface, or conscious, sensitivity. What one would typically call a hyper-sensitivity. It hurt, on a near daily basis , as I felt bombarded by the sensory I was now more attuned to. It was almost literally as though I'd thrown myself into the water so that I'd have to learn how to tread. Many people, especially the older among us do not have this heightened sensitivity. That is not their job. Some people have had quite strongly surfaced sensitivity since birth. Many are more like myself, who develop sensitivity when triggered. I opened myself up consciously year by year and my brain understood this as Feeling More. I opened up to my sensory more fully and didn't think at all about my nervous system placing the connections in for a smooth flow into my consciousness. I began to get into Earth energywork and became very aware that vibrations cycle to surface and cycle out each and every day. I sensed it and my brain now needed to somehow understand it. What I had been trained thus far in my life was to *feel* it full strength and passionately. I had bad day after bad day, sensing so much and placing it into the active playground of my bewildered brain that went into overkill and sent my nervous system into spasms. All of a sudden after opening myself to this wondrous sensory world, I felt powerless against continual onslaughts of headaches, and stomach nausea, intestinal distress , mental debilitation, and on and on and on! For a while this was digestible to me because I Knew that this was part of my job and because I was passionate about doing my job. However, there came the day when I had to finally admit that even if this was my job, I wasn't happy to FEEL this way. The Joy and functionality of my life was utterly missed.

How to retrieve functionality when we are shifting, literally, all the time ?? The answer was clear to me. I had to change my belief system drastically. I had believed that I needed to FEEL each sense in some very obtrusive way in order to understand that we were all shifting vibrations. I no longer believe this and it couldn't have come at a better time. In the past years that I have been writing energy reports, I have noted an immense increase in the actual amount of vibrations that cycle in and out each and every day. A quickening of the Continuum which is us, sometimes described as Mass Awakening or Ascension. It is becoming more and more apparent that we will need to understand the role of our senses and our feelings, that we will need to ask our nervous systems to bridge between them if we are to shift comfortably and live our dreams. We will shift whether we do this or not of course! However, we do absolutely have the ability to work with and allow ALL vibrations. We may have predilections (through natal charts) for certain vibrations, however, we have all vibrations within us and therefore we sense all vibrations. It is what we choose to do with this sense that then creates our feelings . As the vibrations rise and descend in prominence, moving us from moment to moment , day to day, how we flow with that is how we will feel. It is just like the saying of how a person has a good day when they Choose to have a good day and not until then. Vibrations ascend and descend in a beautifully rhythmic , seamless kaleidoscope. We do all sense this universal rhythm. The functionality - our functionality - comes into play when we choose how to allow this continuum.

It can sometimes be an instrumental experience to "lose" oneself to snags so that our full awareness is swiveled around to it. Sometimes it can be quite satisfying and much more clear that we have Found ourselves if first we feel a loss.

Sometimes though, we are simply giving our power of choice away. We are not harmonizing our Senses to our Feelings. Each day we walk these borders and must choose which situation is which but for myself personally I knew I'd given too much power away when I lost a bit too much daily functionality and was not living in either the Present (Now) or with Joy. I was worrying about being next to too many people that would drain me, I was concerned that I needed to somehow protect myself from the ravages of what I "felt" from others. I figured that I was "empathic" and so I was obviously taking this on for them. Not true. That was a clue that I had some major shoring up to do with my senses and my feelings. Even the *feeling* that we could EVER be truly drained is a clue that we are working with a belief system that allows for Lack somewhere. Unconditional love is infinite. The universe was telling me that I had work to do to heal myself (not them). This is where judgements come into play. And when we take our power back, this is when judgements can fall away. And this is when I Felt that I could indeed stand next to anyone. This was when I truly stopped undermining my own Peace by giving such power away on my journey.

When we are centered , then we can extend it to others. This is what I sense happening much more wherever I go now - and it gives me an incredibly joyful feeling .

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