"People should learn to see and so avoid all danger. Just as a wise man keeps away from mad dogs, so one should not make friends with evil men."
- Buddha
It's a small voice, a whisper. Something that tells you not to cross the street exactly at that moment. Where to find your keys, or how to make something work. Your first gut reaction. Those things that tell you to wait and when you do you find out why.
All the things we do in our lives are based on thought and feeling. We can think our way out of a situation. Think about choices. Weigh our options on what home to purchase or which job to take. Yet most often if we don't take our "feeling" body into consideration, we may make the wrong choice.
The feeling body is the body that makes you tense when you walk into a room after an argument. Its the body that gives you the chills when you walk into a home where someone has died. It gives you goosebumps when you watch a thriller movie or makes you cry when you see two old people still holding hands and kissing after years of marriage.
Many times because we have conditioned thinking already established within us, the feeling body can be the ultimate truth teller. We might have thoughts and beliefs about things and our world that simply aren't true. We might try to logically think our way out of beliefs when our feeling bodies are telling us differently.
Sometimes you will run into people and situations where everything on the outside seems fine. A man or a woman who has just entered into your life seems to treat you great. There may be no "outside" indications that they are distrustful or deceiving. However, something inside of you tells you something just isn't right. Listen. It's that inner voice that is most often always right.
