I had an experience with the Feeling Exercise that was unusual for me. Sunday, I was walking around my house barefoot and stubbed my toe hard. I hopped around whooping with pain. For what ever reason I thought at that moment to do the exercise. I focused easily on the sharp pain in my toe and some feelings of swirling in my head and body. When I asked to experience the energy and power in the feelings things shifted almost immediately. What I would describe as moderately intense pain changed to a sensation like two pulsing currents of electricity going in opposite directions on both sides of my toe bone. The color of my toe about as quickly started turning to its natural color from the reddish color it had been. I felt no pain after that. It was almost as if I hadn't stubbed toe.
I'd been practicing the exercise for a couple of weeks before this, mainly with emotions. This was the first time I had the opportunity with physical pain. I had no expectation that doing the exercise would change what I felt in my toe but it really did.
It was really easy for me to feel love, appreciation, and even gratitude to for the feeling, the power in the feeling, and for the whole experience. What a great course.
