Which is the connection between feelings and needs? Why it is so important to allow ourselves to feel our true feelings? It is anger a true feeling or just a cover up feeling?
We've have learned that expressing anger is 'bad', it is 'rude', it is inappropriate. Lots of us have learned to repress their anger, to let it go inside of us, becoming a series of self-defeating behaviours and self-hate (a much more subtle way of expressing our anger).
To feel and recognise our anger helps us to understand our feelings and our needs. Having learned not to express our anger, we are unable to make any decision at all, because the inability to feel our anger removes from us the ability to feel and understand our needs. We are 'needless', empty shells, basically we are only 'anger' but we cannot see it, having built a 'facade' that is very similar to 'being human' but disconnected to our true feelings.
Therefore every time we feel anger, we have to ask ourselves which are the true feelings that we are trying to express with our anger. We will see that sometimes the true feelings are: fear, sadness, grief, desperation, hopelessness. We will look at those feelings and we will try to remember where they came from, are those feelings a reflection of the past? And if so of where and when?
It can take years to get back in contact with our feelings, a little work everyday, to sit down and accept what we are feeling, to look at our life and accept it for what it is and cry of grief if we need to.
Because in our life, even if we do not like it to hear it, we are all exactly where we want to be, where we allow ourselves to be.
It is a journey, a long journey in the material world that will change only when we will be spiritual beings.
In the meantime, speaking about needs, we have to come to understand and accept that no one can fulfil our needs, if we ask someone to fullfil our needs, it means that we are asking them to be the person they are not and not the person they truly are.
In our spiritual journey, with others, we share only what is true.
In looking at our needs, we have to distinguish which are the needs of us as adults and which needs are the needs of us of children (the unmet needs of us as children which we tend to want them to be met in adult life with catastrophic results).