Letting go of how something 'feels'

[James Mayhew]

Perhaps you have experienced, sometime or another, not being quite so clingy to being automatically guided by the sensation you relate to a particular thing*. Whether that be allowing the creepy-crawlies to crawl on your foot or leg without flinching, handling some substance like dirty mucky stuff, allowing the cold weather not to promote an instinctive reaction in you, or other such stimuli which you found yourself able to inhibit the reaction to, where it was deemed sensible.
I would say that this is the state in which you can observe clingy and tightly-inhabiting bodily sensations, feelings etc. and choose to go beyond that into a sort of openness, where you can pursue a course of action without being limited by the bias of how that feels as dictated by an automatically and unconsciously working reaction system within you. And so this can be taken to a much greater depth of mental processes; apologies for the rather bleak example, but, as a widow suddenly thrown into living alone, it is possible to go far back into becoming aware of the automaticity of how thoughts lead on and trigger from one another, then to choose to stay well clear of those which you know cause loneliness and so on (of course after the turmoil of initial grief has subsided enough).

Now for a vague conjecture: in your business plights and going-ons, does this notion of letting go of a feeling you attach with something ring true in terms of helping to escape comfort zones of nice, safe feelings and push into new, higher grounds? For example, when it comes to dealing with people, this could help if you, let's say, speak grumpily and short-temperedly with phone callers to your business, and you decide to shed your skin of negative and grumpy feelings to inhabit one free of all that crap. Just a random made up example but hopefully the principle stands, which can be applied in many other walks of life.


Would be very interested to hear from people with businesses about your personal relations to any of what I have tried to get across.

*You're probably thinking 'what a load of waffle' at this point
(P.S you might have gathered from my writing already that I have not yet started in the entrepreneurial process and may sound a bit naive, being young)

 

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