The following is based on the idea that feeling good, or moving toward states of feeling better, is the foundation of all of life’s pursuits. Feeling is the opposite of abstraction, and my intent here is to give meaning to words in the context of how they relate to how we actually feel. I don’t think the meaning of words and grand ideas have to be complicated. This isn’t philosophy.
I’ll link back to this in future writings for readers to consult if they don’t know what I mean with the words that I use.
Abundance: The state of feeling good through inner knowing that there is always more than enough.
Bad: The feeling we don’t want to feel.
Belief: Assuming something is factual almost entirely based on the word of another, with no consensus about its truth or any physical evidence for it.
Conscience: What you feel is right, or the good thing to do.
Consciousness: Awareness of existence.
Duty: What others tell you what you must do because they want you to do what they want, and persuade you because they’re older and are more experienced and say they know more, even if what they say is against what you feel is right. “Duty” is more insidious than just people-pleasing to advance oneself or avoid trouble, it defers to others because, “Maybe they’re right; what do I know?” It can potentially capture one’s conscience, and suspend independent intuition and judgment of right and wrong in order to obey orders.
Energy: The force of life. Those who desire “increase” in life are really asking for more energy. Greater health is the desire for more physical energy. Love if a form of energy that motivates us to take care of others and ourselves. Prosperity/money is a form of energy that removes obstacles. Creativity is a form of energy that expands the universe.
Evil: The intention to make others feel bad, or to act with indifference to the impact it may have on others.
Faith: The assumption that something will work out a certain way even against all evidence in the material world. (Thanks to Neville Goddard for this understanding). “The assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1 (NRSV) Despite the New Testament reference, faith doesn’t just have a religious connotation. Its applications are in this present world.
Facts: Knowledge of the external world. Facts are almost always told to us by others, but sometimes through reason and experience.
Fear: A state of feeling bad based on thinking about unwanted things.
Feeling: The foundation of all human action, and arguably of all life and all matter. We think, speak, and act in order to move from one feeling to another. Feeling is how we experience reality. Feeling is why we act. Feeling is the source from which we create.
God: Spirit
Good: The feeling we want to feel.
Happiness: Feeling good (thanks to Robert Ringer for this definition).
Health: The state of feeling good in our physical bodies, free of pain and filled with strength and energy.
Indifference: Disregard of the feelings of others.
Joy: A state of feeling good in the present moment, often felt suddenly and intensely without a discernible cause.
Knowledge: Information that is trusted and reliable enough to be acted upon.
Like: To enjoy, or derive pleasure from.
Love: To find value in or desire happiness upon.
Mind: An infinite resource, from which individual thoughts come from.
Peace: A state of feeling good unburdened by guilt or worry.
Patience: A state of feeling good unbothered by what others are doing.
Pain: Feeling bad in the physical body.
Pleasure: An often brief but intense state of happiness.
Prosperity: Access to material resources, through possession of them or the possession of money to purchase them.
Right: What you feel is the good thing to do.
Sin: An action one has reason to believe will makes oneself or others feel bad but is taken anyway.
Spirit: Invisible forces.
Suffering: Feeling bad.
Truth: Inner knowing.
Wrong: What you feel is the bad thing to do.
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