by Steve Marshall

Created on: September 13, 2007

Do thoughts follow feelings or do feelings follow thoughts? Are our dreams from our thoughts or from our feelings?

A recent dream in which I dreamed that I was at work doing overtime prompted me to ask myself this question. In the dream it was 8.35 pm and we were finishing at 9.00 pm that night. I was feeling good as it was close to finishing time. Then I was suddenly at a station called "karma something or other" station. I couldn't remember the other part after karma. It was the wrong station and I had to go back to the main station and then get another train from there in the right direction. I was feeling annoyed in my dream about this and it lead to thoughts of getting home very late after having already worked back doing overtime. When I awoke I asked myself these series of questions. Do feelings actually directly have positive or negative effects on us rather than thoughts that only arise as positive or negative based on the positive or negative feelings they arise from? So that thoughts are really neutral in themselves. Why do feelings of fear lead to thoughts of the negative things that I'm feeling and are the negative thoughts themselves associated with a negative feeling of fear? What is the truth here? Do thoughts follow feelings or do thoughts cause feelings or are they separate but connected and affect each other causally. One causing the other depending on what comes first. Or is it indeed the other way around do feelings follow thoughts and are caused by the thoughts to arise because of the power of the thought?

Thoughts are original only when they come from soul or they are inspired from soul. Feelings are from the body and are functions of the body to allow the body to have a warning system of what is about to happen or is happening. Thoughts therefore are more important as they can come from soul or from other people or just from your own mind. They can arise from a myriad of sources. Feelings only come from your body. Your emotional body picks up these feelings and strengthens them for you. So the sequence is that feelings are really from the body. What are feelings but sensations of the senses of the body? The dream is showing me that most dreams can be about karma and that I am often going in the wrong direction to where my soul is leading me. This creates karma. Karmaless action can only come from following your divine purpose exactly, as this then is working for the divine plan and as such is a karmaless action. Simple but profound the

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