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April 19, 2007

Change the World: Put Your Feelings Back

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 6:06 am

Change the World!

In 1990 my friend, K, convinced a “psychic” to come to Austin to meet with a group of K’s friends for a friendly event. Part of the deal was that the psychic lady would give readings for fee, but that K and I would get time at no charge to hear what the lady saw.

K called me when she arrived and I drove over. To my surprise, the psychic lady looked like a middle-adged house wife wearing a red-beaded, knit pant suit. I guess I had expected some sort of Halloween garb and a silky purple sequin scarf.

The people came; food was served; and the psychic lady spoke of what she did, and told stories of what she saw throughout her life. This psychic lady knew quite a bit about health and wellness. She was also well read..People asked questions about what they might expect.

One by one, people met with the psychic lady in another room. One by one, each person came out looking thoughtful and satisfied.

She then invited me to take my turn.

As I sat in the rocking chair across from her, I thought what an unlikely psychic she is. Then I thought she’s a highly perceptive, intelligent woman. maybe that’s what psychic is.

The woman started by saying that the first thing she noticed that day about me was that I was a person sho people misunderstood. She said that people often felt threatened by me. She was right, but I didn’t say that I had no idea why.

She asked me what color my feelings are.

“What color?” I stopped to think, but saw a color, a scene, immediately.

I said they are “indigo, blue-black — the color of the sky on the night of a starry, full moon, safe and beautiful like inside a mother’s womb.”

I wondered where that answer came from. It was true, but I’d never thought of it before. So, I’d surely never said it.

Then she asked, “Where do you carry them — your feelings?”

I closed my eyes and went inside my head to find the answer. I realized that my feelings weren’t in my body at all.

“I keep them right here,” I said, putting my hands like parentheses in the air next to my left hip. In a heartbeat, I knew the moment I had pushed them out there.

She asked the quietest, most powerful question, “What would happen if you moved them over, if you put them back inside you?”

I didn’t have to answer. I already knew I’d be whole again.

She said, “Now when you meet people, they won’t wonder what you’re hiding.”

She was right.

After that day, somehow people could tell.

We can change the world — just like that.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

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If you’re ready to change the world, send me your thoughts in a guest post. Feel free to take the gorgeous Change the World image up there that Sandy designed back to your blog. Or help yourself to this one.

Change the World!.

Email me about what you’re doing or what we might do. Let’s change the world one bit at a time together. Together it can’t take forever.

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12 Comments to “Change the World: Put Your Feelings Back”

  1. April 19th, 2007 at 6:40 am
    surjit said

    Before changing the world,I think, changing the self comes first.Best wishes.You have a wonderful blog.

  2. April 19th, 2007 at 7:16 am
    Jesse Petersen said

    I want to encourage people just by being. I know that I have an outlook, a mindset, and experiences that millions of other people will benefit from.

    I’m not quite sure yet how to make that effect without constantly coming up with things to say or promoting myself, but I’ll get it done someday, somehow. When I do, you’ll be there to see it.

  3. April 19th, 2007 at 8:28 am
    Marti said

    It is always such a joy to read your blog, I am bestowing the “Thinking Blogger Award” on you! Pass it on!

  4. April 19th, 2007 at 10:10 am
    Stevii said

    I think that changing the world is a huge call and that if everyone changes their own world (their community) then together we can change the world as a whole. I am doing my part to change the world by providing my workshops. I feel that empowering people by educating them will help them in all areas in life. Liz, I feel that you are changing the world by providing thought provoking blogs and by assisting people to organize their thoughts and feelings in their businesses. That is changing the world because in order for a business to be taken seriously and to grow it must be more than a dream, it must be organized.

  5. April 19th, 2007 at 10:41 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi surjit
    Welcome. That’s a wonderful and perfect response. We can’t do anything to listen to the world, if we don’t know how to listen to our our own hearts. :)

  6. April 19th, 2007 at 10:43 am
    ME Strauss said

    Jesse,
    All you to do is simply be you. It’s the way Lyle Lovett does — simply tell your own story with authenticity and transparency and respect, and love. :)

  7. April 19th, 2007 at 10:46 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Marti!
    Thank you for thinking of me for the Thinker Award. I think your thought of doing that is very nice. :)

  8. April 19th, 2007 at 10:51 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Stevii!
    We all have the power to change the world just a tiny bit. We can smile and make the sun shine just a tiny bit brighter. We can put a twinkle in a child’s eyes, just by saying something in a wonderful tone of voice.

    The world doesn’t need us to change it, but we need each other to care enough. :)

  9. April 19th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
    Lisa said

    Liz,
    Thoughts lead to feelings and feelings lead to actions. Let’s just say that’s true. In that small moment in time when you tucked your feelings back inside your body, you put yourself back together with the big WHO of who you are. And your feelings show up as marvelous tuning forks for right action.

    I’m not thinking here that feelings=emotions. I’m thinking of feelings as sensations, inner sensory knowings, providing the “tell” about whether a thought is grounded in “possibility” or “should.”

    Love this stuff.

  10. April 19th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Lisa!
    Your responses always set me thinking. They get me to learning through whole new meanings. I’m going to be thinking about your answer for hours. :)

  11. April 19th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
    Shawna R. B. Atteberry said

    Wow that is a great way to look at feelings. These are questions I’ll keep in the back of my mind as I evaluate my own feelings and where I’m keeping them. I really like this way of looking at emotions: it’s much more creative, and I think more helpful.

  12. April 19th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Shawna!
    It was most useful to me. I know it changed the way I looked them myself, and it was the first step I took to connecting my head to my heart. Head and heart together . . . it’s so important. :)

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