Give Yourself the Privilege of Feeling

Ilaa Vasishtha
2 min readMay 10, 2023

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Give yourself the privilege to feel. The privilege to feel it all.

Every single feeling, every single emotion, every single sensation that comes up. Let yourself feel it all.

Don’t force anything onto yourself. Don’t force things you don’t want to feel. Don’t force things you don’t want to do. Don’t force things that don’t let you BE.

What’s forced is not authentic. What’s forced is not the truth.

What’s forced is not YOU.

So, don’t force it. Any of it.

Don’t try to ‘be positive’ when every single cell in you is just screaming for you to let it be. For you to just let yourself be.

Sometimes, not doing anything is the best thing you can do for yourself. Don’t try to make yourself feel better. You’ll only be masking what you’re truly feeling within. And that helps absolutely no one.

So yes, feel it all. Every sensation, every emotion, every feeling. Feel it all to release it all.

It is an absolute privilege just to let yourself be with the feeling, sit with the feeling, and observe the feeling.

Everyone’s in a rush now. Everyone’s onto the next thing. There’s always a deadline, always a target, always a timer.

But your feelings don’t have any targets. They don’t have a timer. They don’t have a deadline.

Your feelings, your emotions — they are non-linear. Just like you.

You cannot solve them like you do some linear algebraic equations. There is no x and y. There is no definite value of x and y. These feelings cannot be measured in terms of x and y.

These things take time. They need time.

And only when we give them that time — to be — is when they slowly start to fade away. And when we slowly start to ease into them — the feelings, the sensations, the emotions.

So in this rush of life — where being rich is considered a privilege — give yourself the privilege of TIME.

The privilege of FEELING.

The privilege of HEALING.

And that’s when you’ll realize the true richness of life —

In your soul expanding,

In your soul relaxing,

In your soul deeply loving.

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Ilaa Vasishtha

A spiritual writer. Creating thought-provoking articles to inspire souls to awaken to their spiritual paths. Support me: https://ko-fi.com/ilaavasishtha