Feeling Dictionary

I was contacted recently by the author of an interesting webpage: The Feeling Dictionary.

He has carefully catalogued what is, for him, actually happening when he experiences certain feelings. He accepts his feelings as they are, without judging them, but also without necessarily acting on them. That is true freedom in the realm of feeling.

I suspect each person has some individual variation in how they would catalogue their feelings (I know I feel some differences in my own psyche compared to his). But the overall point is worth considering: It is healthy to investigate feelings really carefully in order to separate the actual experience from the beliefs and coercions offered by society, religion, culture, etc.

In other words, make sure you are feeling your own feelings, not someone else's.

(And by the way, isn't that front-page artwork really neat?)