If you ask people (as I often do) how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.
I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't true for us.
Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.
When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion. . . Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out [how] to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it. . . So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.
Shame is, hands down, the most uncomfortable feeling. And, because it produces continuous amounts of inflammatory chemicals in the body, it is also a health risk.
It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.
When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.
When I allow myself to feel all my feelings instead of numbing myself to them, they pass more quickly. I spent my entire life telling everyone I was "OK, damn it. " But when you surrender to the [uncomfortable] feelings, there are gifts on the other side: Allowing yourself to feel loneliness forces you to reach out. Letting yourself get angry gives you strength, energy and motivation.
So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.
I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.
I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time - but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive. " Time spent with my family and friends was never wasted.
It's important to cultivate a tolerance and patience with uncomfortable feelings. It's best to feel them.
The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.
Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.
SHOEBURYNESS (abs. n. ) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom
An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It's a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire. " We reach out for alcohol, or television, or credit cards, so we can focus out there and not have to look at the feeling. And that's as it should be, because in our innocence we haven't known how. So now what we can do is reach out for a paper and a pencil, write thought down, and investigate.
