Personal Blog~Sharon Stephens - Life Coach

Real Happiness comes from "feeling" our feelings.  Quite literally. If you can track your feelings they will reveal the lies and expectations that shackle us to our unhappiness.  So they are a gift.  The greatest learning and light comes in those moments of shear consciousness of "what our feelings mean". So feelings are an indicator of where we are at AND what we need to change. Change comes from not being afraid of our feelings.  Fear of our feelings is what causes us to kick into a behavior.  When we have pain, it feels like it will kill us.  So we kick into getting and protecting behaviors.  Real Happiness is "I feel therefore I grow and learn".  Not "I feel therefore I medicate".  If we medicate our feelings we never learn our light.  We never make it to the next level of our lives.  We never live to our potential.  We repeat the same patterns over and over again. Sitting with a feeling for as long as we need to without medicat

This is my first entry really telling the truth about myself and sharing on a different level than before. As I practice real love or just any spiritual practice I get Aha's that I would like to share and haven't really done that at a personal level as it pertains to me.  I went about two weeks ago to the doctor and found out I have shingles.  It's the chicken pox virus that stays in our body dormant through out our lives.  If it comes out later again, it shows up and transforms itself in a different way.  It is shingles.  I got it on my face.  I got it around my eye.  Left side.  The outside appearance of rash and itchy stuff is the first symptom.  The other symptons are non-visible.  The disease is nerv driven and causes a lot of pain.  Since it is near my eye, the doc told me it is "ocular" shinlges and I could loose my eye.  He told me the pain is severe and some people have committed suicide because it messes with the brain and causes depression.  So