WHAT IS IMPORTANT?


Perhaps you can agree that what is important to you is what you decide is important. Each individual has his own ideas about what is more important and what is less important.


But, where do those decisions come from? They come from your feelings. If you don't feel that something is important, it won't be, at least not to you. If you do feel it is important, then it will be. This makes feelings especially important, because it is your feelings that determine what is important to you and thereby affect your entire life.


When you feel good about something, you find it easy to pursue, easy to relate to, to deal with, and you are generally successful at it. However, when you don't feel good about something, you find it difficult to face, to handle, to relate to, to be successful with, or even to resolve. That's an even stronger reason why feelings should be vitally important to you.


Feelings affect every aspect of your life, whether you realize it or not, 24 hours a day. Your feelings affect the way you sleep, the way you drive to work in the morning, the way you perform at work, the way you enjoy your dinner, the way you relate to people, and how you affect them. Your feelings determine what you do and what you don't do, what you accomplish and what you don't accomplish. They either support you or hinder you in every single aspect of your life.


There has been a great deal written about negative attitudes. They say you must get over negative attitudes, and many people have tried to do so. They have put notes on their mirrors, repeated positive affirmations, and focused constantly on being positive. Yet, only 10% ever seem to change. The negative attitudes remain, regardless of how many positive attitudes are piled on top of them. The reason is that the attitudes are not the problem. Your attitudes are a natural result of your feelings, and your feelings are something you previously thought could never be changed.


If you want to feel good more often in the future, then understanding feelings is very important, much more important than you ever thought in the past.



Learn more:        THE MECHANICS OF FEELINGS