You Can’t Feel your Feelings, And Make Money In Business, Can You

“Feeling your feelings doesn’t make money in business.” This was a statement a business lead said me once. I disagree with it completely, as my own experience has been quite the opposite.

In fact, the more I have been able to harness the power of sensation (the root of feelings) the more my creative innovations has propelled me forward to generate, create and institute new means for making money. And Einstein, in his biography had shared that :

“Some of his greatest discoveries appeared to come first from his body in the form of tingling, vibrating and other enlivening physical sensations. In a process that appears to have been mysterious, even to him, his bodily sensations informed the images and insights that led him to his great discoveries….Decades later, when Einstein’s brain was dissected and studied for medical research, the only distinguishing feature was the size and structure of his parietal lobes, the region of the brain where information from the body is integrated for orientation in space and time….” pg.
280 Dr. Peter Levine’s “In an Unspoken Voice” ; Chapter “Embodiment and Creativity”.

Robert Scheinfeld, the author of “Busting Loose from the Money Game” also describes it as… the more he is able to “dive into the discomfort without judgement” the more he opens to his potential for creation.

When you stop feeling all energies, you stop perceiving and receiving! If you can’t receive, how are you suppose to get the insights and awarenesses needed to bring your business endeavours into the world. You literally stop receiving your birthright ~ support, inspiration, consciousness and joy. The elements that make up a life of abundance.

Now I realize that feelings have gotten a very bad wrap in business. We are all afraid to feel discomfort for it is judged. We have never made it safe for people to feel in business, and because of that our “feeling” muscles are either weak or over strained.

Feelings are very very potent and often not comfortable to experience, especially ones that have the capacity to birth innovations and ideas. Without proper skill, they can highjack us, take us for a ride and leave us in the dust. (This is why highly talented, creative individuals become self destructive).

But with the right skills feelings can be felt, witnessed and experienced without identification, believing in or acting on them. They are simply sensation, energy in motion and when we let them do their thing with the help of the breathe, they empower. They become the life-force that facilitates growth. The same growth that you see in everything of nature. Our bodies (which includes the brain) are biologically designed to feel the sensations of discomfort and comfort. The body is not biologically designed to be in a state of mental chatter 24-7. But that is where most of us reside and in doing so, we push away our birthright ~ our creative capacity to make money in a way that is self honouring.