I Feel Good Because I Wanna

I find that when I awake before fully rested it's like a laboratory for my brain, a chance to do "thought experiments" in a highly sensitive, very raw state of mind.  I certainly don't prefer sleep deprivation, and would love to sleep 8 hours straight every night, but I try to make the best of it when I wake up too early.

This morning, I awoke after about 4.5 hours of sleep, and noticed that my immediate temptation was to think, "this sucks" and be negative about my situation.  However, I believe that I was influenced by watching an inspiring video by Bruce Lipton on the power of our thoughts last night (which I recommend checking out when you have 51 free minutes) so I decided to shift my focus in a positive direction.

I've been studying Eckhart Tolle for a long time, and feel that the ability to surrender to the pain-body is a great skill to have instead of fighting against it.  However, it is tempting (since there is nearly always "some degree of pain" present in one's body) to shift immediately to feeling the pain-body when sleep-deprived instead of focusing on a more positive perspective that shifts one's state from pain to pleasure.

I decided I wanted to feel good in my situation, even though I really wanted to fall back asleep and get at least another few hours of rest.  I didn't like what I was faced with, but decided I wanted to feel good instead of focusing on my pain-body.  So within my mind I repeated the phrase, "I feel good" to see if those words could help me feel better.  I noticed a subtle sensation of tingling pleasure throughout my body, which I saw as a very good sign.

I added the phrase "because I wanna" (want to felt too "formal" for the occasion) to offset any thoughts that I needed a "good reason" to feel better.  I simply wanted to feel good in that moment and felt that the desire for pleasure should be enough.  The phrase "I feel good because I wanna" seemed to help further.  Instead of feeling as though I was in a "negative" situation that I needed to either fight against or "surrender to" I felt my body shifting into a more pleasurable state.  Within half an hour I was able to fall back asleep and woke up later feeling rested.

I learned from this experience that while Tolle's method of feeling the pain-body may be best for some situations, it's great to also be able to shift into a pleasurable state simply be focusing one's thoughts on feeling good.  So I pass along this story in case you'd like to experiment with the phrase, "I feel good because I wanna" (or "I feel good because I want to" or perhaps "I feel good because I would like to feel good" or whatever grammatical structure feels congruent!).

Peace,
Chris

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