Active feeling is fully feeling our feelings and allowing them to be there with no intention of getting rid of them or keeping them. This approach puts us in full contact with ourselves and allows us to naturally integrate and process our feelings. This integration and processing leads to our clearly seeing ourselves, others, and the world. Active Feeling is the basis of sound mental health and aliveness. Active feeling has roots in mindfulness, focusing, and old school clearing.

Active Feeling stands at the middle way between suppressing our feelings and overidentifying with our feelings. Active Feeling is basically relaxed allowing where our bodies are relaxed and we take a non interfering stance with our feelings. This approach does not judge or evaluate our emotions and feelings. We simply experience our feelings in a relaxed state of allowing and greet them with acceptance, love, and a sense of that's the way it is.

In noting that Active feeling resides between suppression and overidentification, we recognize that suppression is when a feeling emerges and we attempt to hold it down, deny it, medicate it away, avoid it, tense up, distract ourselves, talk about it, or get lost in daydreams. Overidentification is when feelings show up and we over focus on them and not grant them movement. Here we grasp the feeling and won't let go.

Active Feeling or allowing ourselves to feel feelings brings relief and greatly lessons symptoms, habits, compulsions, stuckness, panic, depression, and chronic moodiness. Active Feeling operates on the common observation that when feelings are resisted they intensify and persist. Yet when feelings are fully experienced and accepted they integrate and release. This is our nature. Resistance and suppression create havoc in our lives.

TIPS ON ACTIVE FEELING

* A fully relaxed body will open us to our feelings. This relaxation can be brought about by left nasal dominance breathing, slow and deep circular breathing, and full body relaxation exercises.

* In left nasal dominance breathing we breathe moderately and deeply through our left nostril only. Our right nostril is gently pinched shut. Exhale is free and relaxed. A good full body relaxation exercise is to begin at the top of the scalp and go all the way down the body to the toes, letting go of any stress and tension you meet in any muscle or body part. A cyle or two works wonders when combined with left nasal dominance breathing.

* Circular breathing works well too. This form of breathing is described in the Meridian and Vortex. Circular breathing done in a hot tub can really open things up for folks who see themselves as non feelers. However, it should be mentioned that most socalled nonfeelers actually do feel. Often they deny or misperceive body sensations. Or they discount borderline feelings such as no feeling, numbness, dissociation. Often they miss their frustrated feelings in their inability to feel the feelings they desire or demand. Even so called non feelings and numbness count as feelings. They are still bodily sensations.

* Copper Biocircuits can assist in feeling feelings and getting things unblocked. Large copper plates connected with midline wires are very useful.

* You need not give your feelings traditional names like anxiety or happy or depression or anger. In Active Feeling we call them "Up Energy", "Down Energy", or "Neutral Energy". This naming can reduce some of our aversion to feeling which may come from negative and pathological labeling. This form of neutralized labeling can give us a clearer experience of feeling.

* Welcome and feel gratitude for your feelings. When you begin to tune into a feeling and really allow yourself to feel, say hello or Hi to your feeling. This greeting both acknowledges your feeling and underscuts resistance to it. Recognizing what good service your feelings perform will also undercut resistance. Your feelings always perform the valuable task of giving you feedback about yourself, others, and your reality. Feelings let you know how you feel about something. Feelings also perform many other valuable services as well. Discover them through intuition or asking your unconscious what valuable and good things your feelings do. By giving heartfelt gratitude or thanks to your feelings, you further remove aversion to your feelings. In short greet your feelings, what good things they do, and sincerely thank them for their services. Done with sincerity these three gestures will help you let go of aversion to your feelings.

* If you have hostile or fearful judgements or evaluations toward your feelings, feel these judgements and evaluations. Then allow these judgements and evaluations to describe themselves with a simple label. You might get back the labels: hostile, fearful, angry etc. Feel the label then allow your unconscious to peel it off. Keep feeling and peeling any labels that pop up until you are left with only "Up Energy", "Down Energy", or "Neutral Energy". If you want you can even peel off these labels and experience what is left.

* Utilize the Accept This/Love That processes on the tech page. The Grok Drills may be fun too.

* Always allow your feelings to be there with no intention of getting rid of them or keeping them. Allow. Permit.

* Experience feelings in different ways: (1) Intensify them or exagerate them. (2) Tune into them and allow them to migrate to other areas of your body. Then allow them to return. (3) Notice the opposite feelings of the feelings you're having. Shift back and forth between these polarities several times. What do you notice?

* Allow your intention to get rid of your feelings to be there. Pay full attention to it and recognize it attempted to be helpful in its own way.

* Allow yourself to have feelings and not to have feelings.

* Observe how talking about your feelings is not the same as fully feeling them. It abstracts them and can be a form of resistance to feeling. This may shock some folks. Feel a feeling, then talk about it. What do you notice about the feeling connection here?

* Sometimes during feeling your feelings you may experience chaos and uncertainty. Feel the chaos and uncertainty and permit them to be there. It's okay to feel confused, out of control, and uncertain. When you experience chaos and uncertainty fully you will begin to notice that order naturally returns even though you didn't seek order.

* Notice the size and shape of a feeling. Notice its outline. Notice its location. Notice its surrounding space. What did you experience?

* Are there feelings beneath your feelings? Pay full attention to your feeling. Ask if there is a feeling beneath that feeling. Wait and see if something appears. Keep letting feelings appear if they suddenly pop up into awareness. Go until you hit a wall or no more feelings appear. Then wait for a felt sense to emerge and fully feel it.

* Allow yourself to fully feel your feelings. If some seem overwhelming and intense, that's okay. The longer you feel them with no intention of getting rid of them or keeping them, the less intense they will be. Only if it is absolutely required do a Meridian Grasp head hold or the Neurovascular Nightmare Exterminator. This will quickly chill down the most intense and resisted feelings. The directions for them are on the tech page in the Meridian Grasp and the Nuerovascular Nightmare Exterminator. Even in the most intense and overwhelming panic symptoms, abreactions, trauma restims, and flashbacks, it's not the feeling that overwhelms us, it's our intense aversion or resistance to these feelings that get us to flee. It's our intolerance to feeling that fires us up. These are the beliefs like I can't stand it, it's too much, it's overwhelming etc. These evaluations are the bedrock of aversion. By standing our low frustration tolerance and fully feeling it, the low frustration tolerance dies down. Fear has never chased a panicked person anywhere. They leave the scene because they believe they can't stand their fear. Practice long and often with aversion beliefs like: I can't stand it, it's overwhelming me etc. Once fully felt and accepted these beliefs lose their hypnotic spell over us.

* Dissociation or a seeming lack of feeling, sometimes to the point you feel outside your body is a strong reaction to feeling overwhelmed. Focus on your dissociation and allow it to return to your body where you can feel it again. If you are working with dissociation, have someone trusted nearby or better yet work with a therapist grounded in focusing, mindfulness, or energy therapy.

* Lack of feeling, numbness, dead feeling, or even no feelings are all feelings. Allow yourself to fully feel them with no intention of getting rid of them or keeping them.

* If you experience compulsions, addictions, obsessive thoughts and actions, then locate the feelings that power up these experiences. When the feelings that run compulsions, addictions, etc are fully experienced and accepted, the compulsions and addictions lose all power and vanish.

* A straight spine helps us feel. Keep up your breathing. Stopped breathing makes feelings stick.

* If thoughts intrude--that okay. Simply say: "thought" and bring your attention gently back to your feeling.

* Notice those feelings where you want or need something. Notice those feelings you attempt to push away or avoid.

* Placing your palm on your heartbeat refion can assist in feeling and in keeping feelings in the body.

* After you have a fgood handle on fully feeling feelings, you can also focus on physical sensations, pain, and ill feelings.

* Check out how you feel about some of the targets in Targets for Tech.

* Doing the Medualla Un Hold (Nambudripad) prior to Active Feeling can assist us in clearly feeling our feelings. Also the Central Meridian Trace is useful to full feeling. These are described in the D.I.E.

* When integration of feelings comes about, changes in belief and emotion take place. Muscle tension vanishes.

* Feelings may change into other aspects or even release memories. Pay full attention. The majority of feelings tend to cluster in the torso, yet they can be faound in every part of the body and sometimes exterior to it.

* As you get more tuned into feeling a feeling you will notice the separation between yourself/being and the felt energy. This separation is subtle. This energy blur is not quite you. Pay attention to this separation and feel it.

* Feelings have beginings, middles, and ends. Feelings arise and pass away.

* Be willing to forgive a feeling. __________________________________

*STEPS TO ACTIVE FEELING

(1) Recline or sit and allow yourself to relax. (Left nasal dominance breathing, relaxation exercises).

(2) Bring your attention to your body. Central torso often a good place to start.

(3) Permit your feelings to come up. Do not force or attempt to make something happen. Feelings will only come to awareness if an intention of permission is there.

(4) Greet your feeling: Say Hi or Hello. Name it: Up Energy--Down Energy--Neutral Energy.

(5)Be with your feeling. Pay attention with sincere interest and openness. No hurry--just allow it to be there with no intention of getting rid of it or keeping it. Just let it be.

(6) Ask it what good things it does for you and give your feeling time to respond.

(7) Thank it for its good service.

(8) Ask it what it wants to tell you. You will get a sudden felt like response or intuition. Pay full relaxed attention.

(9) Allow your feeling to tell you even more if this is your sense. Be patient.

(10) Be willing to be with your feeling and feel it no matter what. Remember: No intention of getting rid of it or keeping it.

(11) After you've spent what seems like enough time with your feeling, you may stop. You will know this by a felt sense. Thank your feeling again.

*We may have intuitive conversation with our feelings.

(a) You can employ your feelings to know what you want. You can ask your feelings directly: "Feeling old pal--what do you want?" Don't hurry an answer, just wait patiently.

(b) Feelings can provide answers in felt senses, pictures, sounds. Other questions might be: What brings you here? What good things are you doing for me?

(c)Overwhelming emotions always have something important to tell us. Ask what they want. You might even ask them how they might help to make you whole and complete. What can I learn from you that might bring serenity or even power?

(d) Ask your feelings what might be holding you back or blocking you. And what might you do? You are going strait to the heart of intuition by asking your feelings.

(e) Feelings provide an opportunity to listen non judgementally and really hear what our feelings have to say. Treat a feeling like a buddy.

(f) Ask your feelings if they require distance. If they answer back yes, then permit them distance. Experience them now as "Those feelings over there" "That feeling" "My feelings beside me" This slight distancing alters our relationship with them and allows them more accessibility.

(g)Feel a sensation, then ask what it is. Feelings and sensations are gateways to intuition. However if your answers come back with "I think" or "I believe" you are not coming from an intuitive place.

(h) Ask your feeling to let you know what it would be like to experience wholeness, serenity, power, or love again.

(i) Avoid questioning feelings with "why" questions. Why questions will take you quickly out of the feeling mode.

* If you're feeling doubtful about your feelings, then return to them and experience them.

*Notice any sense of impatience or pushing. Allow yourself to relax and focus, paying full attention with a sense of permission.

* Be willing to feel even good feelings.

*Active feeling can be employed for powerful feeling experiences like compulsion, grief, obsession, and panic.

* Many times when you become experienced with active feeling, you will experience spontanious releases.

*If you have been condemning a feeling--see how you might accept it.

* Sometimes we may experience two or more feelings at the same time. Feel both at once or naturally let yourself gravitate to the one you find most interesting. You'll experience a pull.

* Keep somewhat warm during Active Feeling sessions. This helps feeling.

* You can always return to a feeling you felt previously.

* A common block to Active Feeling is simple performance anxiety. Here we wonder if we're doing it right. Or do we have a feeling? This is okay. Whatever is there for you in your body is a sense or a feeling. They work.

* If you've decided to work on a particular feeling and your body had another feeling in mind, guess who wins? Your body. You can ask your body if it's okay to proceed with this other feeling, but if it says otherwise, pay attention and work with what it provides.

* Never rush or push feelings. Allow. Permit. Relax.

* If a feeling abruptly vanishes, this might hint you have intentions to hurry up and make it go away.

* Sometimes you might feel good and miss it because you expect to feel really bad.