You can't feel bad and be conscious at the same time

Is that true? Is it true that you can't feel bad and be conscious at the same time?

It seems to be this is one of the beliefs that a lot of people in alternative circles share - that if you are conscious, you'll always feel happy. As far as I can see the truth is something else. For most of us - becoming conscious is a process - it's not something that just happens overnight. (Though it does seem to happen like that for a few people like Eckhart Tolle and Byron Katie). But for most of us, waking up to reality (which is what I mean by being conscious) is something that happens over a long period of time. In fact it can take years. And during this process, we often feel bad (at least that's my experience). Some days we experience increasing clarity and some days we feel really lousy. We may even have long periods when a lot of our old beliefs and emotions are coming up into the light of consciousness and in times like that it can be very intense. Again, that is my experience.  And it's all part of the process of waking up. And as we wake up, more and more of our old patterns and deeper and deeper layers come up to the surface to be cleared. Then we see what's confused and crazy in our belief systems and as we slowly release these patterns, we can feel both terrible and elated...

So yes, you can feel bad and be conscious at the same time! (The moral here is don't beat yourself up more than necessary as you go through your process...)

Comments

[Mihkel]

What a lovely thought. :)

[Donovan]

Well said, as very few of us are at the place where being "in the now" means we don't feel depressed at times or have egocentric doubts and thoughts. I sometimes wish that more writers would make this clear in their writings. I do find Byron Katie however, comes the closest to explaining these truths.