You Don't Know What You Feel

A lot of suffering stems from not knowing what we want. The only way to know what we want is to enquire. All enquiry requires awareness. Of your thoughts. Your feelings. Your urges. Your instincts. That feeling in your stomach when you see something or someone is important data. Pay attention to it. That data reveals what you secretly crave. If you ask someone what emotions they went through today, they will have no idea. They have never bothered to sit still and reflect on their thoughts. They have no record of the emotions they experienced. Yet in the back of their mind, thoughts are constantly racing. They experience similar emotions every day, and yet they remain clueless by the end of it. That's why journaling every day works. It forces you to enquire into what you were feeling. As you write down the dominant feeling in your diary, you revisit all the emotions you felt throughout the day. This makes you think from a third person's perspective. It also makes you aware of the…