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Gita's Q/A Forum: Questions From Readers


Question: I have been pondering on the difference between the understanding of feelings versus emotions. Is there a difference and how would you explain it? I'm asking this, since this is what I have been observing lately about myself. That's where a lot of my chaos is trapped within. I am not able to differentiate between what is real and unreal in feelings and emotions.

 As always thank you for your help and support.

Answer: Emotions arise from the emotional body and are based on desires, needs, patterns inculcated in us through our growing years, as well as fears, various self-deceptions, or expected actions. They are from our own emotional body and our own perceived needs from life. The emotional body has seven layers. From the lowest layers emerge feelings that deal with self-preservation. When these natural, self-preserving emotions are mixed with distortions or pollutions, then they become hurtful and hateful. For example, it is natural to love, but when love is distorted, it becomes jealous, angry, and can cause harm when the person feels that their love is being rejected or somehow violated. In the higher levels of the emotional body, the self-preserving emotions change into inclusiveness, and love becomes more selfless and freeing.

Gita's Q/A Forum: Questions From Readers

Question: I just found out that doing energy clearing/balancing practices like, Qigong, Tai Chi and so on are actually irritating to the astral body. Can you help me to understand why?

Answer: Whenever there is a feeling of irritation in the emotions, feelings of instability or spaciness, fear, or many other not so friendly emotions, it is time to stop and observe the causes. Don't ever feel that you don't know better, or being spacey and uncomfortable somehow is “spiritual.” These are signs from your bodies telling you to stop and take notice.

Whenever we do any work on our bodies, we release tension and toxicity. Too much too soon, and you are sore and irritable, depressed, or suffer various levels of emotional and mental and physical illnesses. Too little and not sustained, and there is no benefit. The wrong kind of energy work, and serious damage may result. And, thinking this is the permanent solution creates false expectations and running after non-essentials. This kind of thinking and expectation build glamors, illusions, and various self-deceptions that further retard our growth. Every kind of energy work or even spiritual work is not necessarily useful to everyone.

When we release pain on any level, they become like broken pieces of an iceberg that float on the surface of our aura.

Before I leave the office on Friday, I sit in my thinking chair and reflect on my most cherished feeling, one that I would never want to be without: the sense of FREEDOM. More than anything else in my life, the feeling of freedom, the sense of freedom is the most special. I realize the freedoms that I have and how many women do without it. I reflect on this precious gift. Why is it one of the seven most important principles in life?

My corner chair once belonged to my father, a chair that is a bit weathered, and when you sit in it, it sinks down, “bringing you down to reality” as I like to think of it!

I feel a tremendous sense of freedom and see how it allowed me to become who I am.

I write the following in my diary. Although it is deeply personal, I read it over and over again, and feel I would like to share it with you. I want very much to express gratitude today, for the freedom I have had all my life.