Often my mind is already miles ahead of my body. I have already figured out (without feeling deeper) what I am going to do. And without regard for my body I thunder on, facing my burnout with open eyes, for example. Thinking I’m doing good.
But if the feeling arises in me then the mind has no idea, or rather, my mind has no idea what it is about, what is happening and where we are now. Because feeling is another greatness that the mind , thinking has no control over. They are two other languages, two other modalities. Similarly, you cannot smell with your eyes or hear with your nose. For example, thinking cannot achieve what I feel. And vice versa. Can’t feel what I’m thinking. At most that I feel semblance. Describing a feeling from my thinking. This is what people with NPD do to feign emotion. Can be but is not the same.
My body can have an intense experience, even an aha experience that triggers all kinds of things, is transformative, while my mind has no awareness, no storyline to make sense of this physical experience.
Feeling happens in the now, and in the now there can be no thinking. For thinking has past and future as its raw material. Feeling has as its raw material the experience of sensations in this moment.
In addition, the feeling is direct, fog unfiltered. Often we learn too much with the mind to feel, to interpret, to perceive, to label, to distort, a whole process in which feeling eventually does not even come into play. We unlearn to feel. But if we own that again, then there is a direct perception of reality as it presents itself to me and the reaction, Provided I have learned to perceive it through my senses, is many times faster than the conditioned mind. Primary instincts lie deep in the brain stem and operate without the intervention of the higher brain centers.
