Starts with a feeling

When we're on a roll with our inner teachers, it becomes clear that a new understanding starts with a feeling. There are many great ways to feel when embarking on our next little learning adventure. We may be feeling like: "I can do this", "I want to understand this", "I'm wonderfully curious about this", "I can hardly wait to grasp the significance of this" or any of a zillion other good feelings.

Then we imagine the end result. We can see ourselves satisfied and benefiting from the change. We can look forward to the outcome of the adventure with anticipation, excitement and appreciation. We can enjoy the experience before it happens as if it's meant to be, perfect for right now and in line with our life aims.

With this combination of feeling and imagination in mind, learning simply happens. We happen to be motivated to acquire some new resources or search for some information. We may happen to get better questions to dawn on our minds. We will happen to run across some surprising experience which spawns some new insights, inquiries or discoveries.

We get the idea from all this that there is a flow to our learning naturally. Once we are immersed in this stream of continual satisfaction, it becomes clear how to stay in the flow or to derail the process. We can start with a good feeling, or try to learn by feeling worried, pressured and inadequate. We can imagine:

• how things will go from good to better or from bad to worse,
• how the world is supporting our exploration or is out to get us
• how what we want falls into place or how nothing goes our way without a fight

We will then take actions and receive what comes about that all happen to succeed or struggle against the adversity we've imagined which ends up exhausted, defeated and pitiful. Whenever we've dug a pit for ourselves and fallen in it, we can get out instantly by changing our feeling about learning something next. Whenever we are on a roll, we can continue to feel grateful, fascinated and trusting and let what comes about happen in our favor.