CONSTRUCTIVE FEELING

— Awareness of feelings

— Using feelings to gain information, to solve problems, to create

— Cultivating self-compassion, kindness, patience with one’s own state of being and growth process

— Enjoying the process

— Inspiring imagination

— Cultivating positive emotions such as joy, contentment, delight, curiosity, happiness

— Learning new habits of feeling that make you feel better, not worse

— Expressing appreciation

— Practicing gratitude, consciously knowing what you are grateful for

— Developing awareness of stressful thoughts underneath negative feeling states

— Expressing true feelings without emotional drama

— Being at peace; cultivating states of focus, calm, clarity

— Questioning relationship of feelings to the work of achieving your goal