Written by Eugene Morgan
“We do not just feel with the fingers, but with the heart, the mind.” Milton Erickson
Erickson is reminding us that we feel with our heart as well as our mind. The heart is generally a metaphor of our emotions. Therefore, we feel our emotions. Our minds identify the emotions based on a situation or event in our world. Erickson always bring us back to basics, to experience things fully. Experiencing something different breaks up the routine of our thought processes to help in relieving repressed emotions so they can be felt fully in our heart and mind.