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Butterfly
By karen | March 13, 2007
Don’t kill the Butterflies.
Haven’t we all made huge, huge mistakes? And when you think back of the time before you made the leap of the huge mistake do you remember how you felt? Think back, how did you feel?
I’m betting that more often than not you had the butterflies, not the “I’m so excited, this is so great and wonderful” sweet kind of butterflies that feel “oh so good!” but rather the “Oh, no, what are these monster butterflies doing knocking around inside of me?” variety. Of course, you probably didn’t have that exact thought and maybe you wouldn’t even describe it that way but if you think about it, you know exactly what I am talking about here. It’s a feeling, an emotion, an indication that you are off track.
Many times the huge mistakes of our lives come when we kill the butterflies, when we ignore the voice in our head and our hearts and we press on. It’s when we have the bad feelings but we do it anyway.
Our emotions are a gift, a wonderful, wonderful gift. When we learn to read our own emotions and feel the feelings that they give us we can really focus in and create the life we want.
Negative emotions are the gift of directions. They are not something to be avoided at all cost. They are indications that what you are thinking about or what you are contemplating will not take you to where you want to go. Sometimes the emotions are big and huge, like the sobbing tears before the wedding; sometimes they are subtle, just the small but still nagging doubts that something is just not quite right with the decision. But negative emotions come to us for a reason. We need to pay attention.
Often in our lives, other people try to direct us. They tell us how something worked wonders for them, how we should try it, how this is the most amazing thing since the beginning of time, how this can work wonders for everybody who works it and yada, yada, yada. But our own souls are screaming at us (usually in the form of those nasty kind of butterflies) “Don’t do it!” That is when we really need to listen, not to the other person but to our own souls.
When you learn to trust your own guidance you learn to feel safe, you learn to make the best decisions for you and your life starts to flow.
Your feelings are there for a reason. Honor the Butterflies.
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My good friend Aaron at Today is that Day is hosting the Law of Attraction Blog Carnival this week of March 28, 2007. Check it out!
Oh and by the way this article is one of the Featured Entries.
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The Blog Carnival Emotion at Work has included this article in the April 2, 2007 edition. You can see the carnival at Inter-actions.biz/blog.
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Topics: Personal Development, Living the Power, Deliberate Creation, Real Life |
March 15th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
found you through yarnival.. and i promise to honor the butterflies..
March 15th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Thank you for finding me! If you knit and I knit we have something in common! Thanks for stopping by!
March 28th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Karen,
I was so happy to feature your entry in this edition of the Law of Attraction carnival. There are many methods of using the LOA, but in the end it always boils down to how you feel.
You sum that up so wonderfully by tying it in with something that most people are familiar with - the butterflies! Thanks again for writing this!
March 28th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Thanks, Aaron! Your appreciation means so much to me!
I sincerely just want to say Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
April 15th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Thanks Karen,
That’s a good piece. I felt vindicated reading it. Felt as if I’d found a person who was a bit like me, felt a bit less alone, felt a bit better able to honour the butterflies, felt I wanted to learn some butterfly names, felt it was time for a warm cup of tea, in Cork, Ireland.
April 15th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
I’m glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for stopping by. I’ve never been to Cork, Ireland (actually haven’t been outside the U.S.!) but I would love to join you for that warm cup of tea in Cork. It sounds delightful!
April 17th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
You’re on. How about Thursday? In the cafe, by the oak tree, under that cathedral, beside the river, in front of the daffodils, behind the eagle’s nest…?
April 17th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Is that the yellow daffodils behind the red tulips underneath the big pine tree, next to the oak tree at the cafe with the red tables? I’ll meet you there at half past afternoon. I’ll be wearing a yellow straw hat, a red dress and purple high heels. You can’t miss me! Looking forward to it!
July 29th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Our feelings are definately excellent guides.