The Power (6 page)

“Feeling is the secret.”

Neville Goddard
(1905-1972)
NEW THOUGHT AUTHOR

You’re a Feeling Being

From the moment you are born, you are always feeling something, and so is every other person. You can stop your conscious thoughts when you’re sleeping, but you can never stop feeling, because to be alive is to feel life. You are a feeling “being” to the core of you, and so it’s no accident that every part of your human body is created so you can feel life!

You have the sense of sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch, so that you can feel everything in life. They are “feeling” senses, because they enable you to feel what you see, feel what you hear, feel what you taste, feel what you smell and touch. Your entire body is covered with a fine layer of skin, which is a feeling organ, so you can
feel
everything.

How you feel in any one moment is more important than anything else, because how you feel right now is creating your life.

Your Feelings Are the Fuel

Your thoughts and words have no power at all in your life without your feelings. You think so many thoughts in a day that don’t amount to anything because many of your thoughts don’t elicit a strong feeling within you. It’s what you
feel
that matters!

Imagine your thoughts and words as being like a rocket ship, and your feelings as the fuel. A rocket ship is a stationary vehicle that can’t do anything without fuel, because the fuel is the power that lifts the rocket ship. It’s the same with your thoughts and words. Your thoughts and words are vehicles that can’t do anything without your feelings, because your feelings are the power of your thoughts and words!

If you think, “I can’t stand my boss,” that thought is expressing a strong negative
feeling
you have about your boss, and you’re giving out that negative
feeling
. As a consequence, your relationship with your boss will continue to get worse.

If you think, “I work with some fabulous people in my job,” those words are expressing the positive
feeling
you have about the people you work with and you’re giving out that positive
feeling
. As a consequence, your relationships with your work colleagues will continue to get better.

“The emotions must be called upon to give feeling to the thought so it will take form.”

Charles Haanel
(1866-1949)
NEW THOUGHT AUTHOR

Good and Bad Feelings

Like everything else in life, your feelings can be either positive or negative; you have good feelings or bad feelings. All good feelings come from love! And all negative feelings come from a lack of love. The better you feel, like when you feel joyful, the more love you give out. And the more love you
give
, the more you
receive
.

The worse you feel, like when you feel despair, the more negativity you give out. And the more negativity you give, the more negativity you receive back in life. The reason you feel so bad with negative feelings is because
love
is the positive force of life, and negative feelings don’t have much love in them!

The better you feel, the better life gets.

The worse you feel, the worse life gets – until you change how you feel.

When you feel good, your thoughts are automatically good too. You cannot feel good and have negative thoughts at the same time! Likewise it’s impossible for you to feel bad and have good thoughts at the same time.

How you feel is an exact reflection, a precise measure to the finest degree, of what you are giving out in any moment. When you feel good, you don’t have to be concerned about anything else because your thoughts, words, and actions will be good. Simply by feeling good you are guaranteed to be giving love, and all of that love must come back to you!

Good Means Good

Most people understand how it feels to feel good or really bad but don’t realize they are living with negative feelings a lot of the time. People think that feeling bad means feeling extreme negativity, such as sadness, grief, anger, or fear, and while feeling bad does include all those feelings, negative feelings come in many degrees.

If you feel “okay” most of the time, you may think that feeling “okay” is a positive feeling because you don’t feel really bad. If you’ve been feeling really bad and you now feel okay then most certainly feeling okay is far better than feeling really bad. But feeling okay most of the time is a negative feeling, because feeling okay is not feeling good. Feeling good means feeling good! Good feelings mean you’re happy, joyful, excited, enthusiastic, or passionate. When you’re feeling okay, average, or you’re not really feeling anything much at all, then your life will be okay, average, or not much at all! That is not a good life. Good feelings mean you feel really good, and feeling really good is what brings a really good life!

“The measure of love is love without measure.”

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
(1090-1153)
CHRISTIAN MONK AND MYSTIC