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Who remembers the band Boston?

I’ll be honest, I don’t.

I couldn’t’ tell you a single thing about them.

Other than the name of one of their songs that I have on my general playlist.

“More than a feeling”.

Talking about the singer’s memories of a girl called Marianne.

And how they are “more than a feeling”.

They’re not though, are they?

They are just a feeling, aren’t they?

‘Feeling’ being defined as “an emotional state or reaction”

And ’emotion’ being “a strong feeling deriving from one’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others”……………

State “the particular condition that someone or something is in at a specific time.”

By definition, just a feeling.

A temporary one.

Like all emotions.

Temporary states.

Governed by the “law of impermanence”.

Transient

Inconstant.

Things that come and go.

When we view any emotion as being anything but a temporary state, we’re probably setting ourselves up for a harder time with them.

They are just feelings.

Feelings we may have more than we’d like, sure.

That we are, perhaps, more pre-disposed to than others.

That, maybe, come to us more readily and we find harder to let go of.

But feelings nonetheless.

Temporary states.

We don’t describe some feelings with terms of permeance

So why others?

We never say we “have happiness”.

Or talk about “my joy”.

So why describe feelings like depression and anxiety the same way?

Not to dismiss or minimise them, but does describing them as things we “have” or “my……” set us up for viewing them in the way that serves us best?

Can they not just be emotions that we’re feeling?

That, by definition, will come and go?

That we’ll be feeling sometimes and not others?

Does framing them as “more than a feeling” really help us?

Much love,

Jon ‘Cheers’ Hall

Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.