Russell begins by posing the question of "the effects of modern knowledge upon our mental life", and by emphasising that "mental life" encompasses willing and feeling as well as intellectual thought.
Psychology finds consciousness to be constituted of three major act-categories: representation, willing, and feeling; our discussion is limited to the first two.
In addition, you need to be willing to feel the wounded feelings -- the feelings you cause with your self-abandonment -- of fear, anger, anxiety, depression, guilt, shame, aloneness, emptiness, jealousy, envy and so on, and open to learning about what you may be doing or telling yourself that is creating them, in order to discover the core painful feelings that you may be avoiding.
Explore Your Feelings You need to get in touch with your emotions, and be willing to feel them.
When a human being is conscious of himself as human, he is conscious of himself not only as a thinking being, but also as a willing and a feeling being.
This identity of representation and representational act typifies what we may call Wundt's "monistic perspectivism".[41] Everywhere he insists that the "psychic processes form a unitary flow of events [einheitliches Geschehen[42]]," the constituents of which—"representing, feeling, willing, etc". are "only differentiated through psychological analysis and abstraction" (1911a: 1911a
Meditation, like watching the rhythm of ocean waves, is nothing more than focusing attention on the natural flow of the mind itself, allowing a person to develop an intimate relationship with his or her own reasoning, thinking, feeling, willing, perceiving, judging, etc.
"Hopefully Stephen will be there willing me on and feeling proud of what I've achieved," Sutton says.
The other is that it makes the West look hypocritical: all too willing to bruise Muslim feelings, while protecting Jewish ones by law.Laws against holocaust denial (which 14 countries have) were never a good idea.
If they are willing to offload old feelings, they will discover that they don't have to bottle up unpleasant emotions.
