[MrsBkr]

What does that mean? how can I fell nothing? people get confused when they ask me what it means that I feel nothing sometimes it only happens once in a while but when it does I feel no happiness or sadness or anything It's not a bad feeling but it's not good it's weird I have no words to describe it.... am I the only one?

Originally Posted by MrsBkr

What does that mean? how can I fell nothing? people get confused when they ask me what it means that I feel nothing sometimes it only happens once in a while but when it does I feel no happiness or sadness or anything It's not a bad feeling but it's not good it's weird I have no words to describe it.... am I the only one?

Hey, there . I can tell you that you are not the only one to feel nothing. I've felt nothing for a long time, and have only recently began to feel happiness, sadness, and hurt again. I do hope feeling nothing passes for you.

I feel numb the vast majority of the time. To me it's better to feel nothing than to hurt or feel unhappy all of the time.

You're not alone.

[continuosly blue]

Originally Posted by MrsBkr

What does that mean? how can I fell nothing? people get confused when they ask me what it means that I feel nothing sometimes it only happens once in a while but when it does I feel no happiness or sadness or anything It's not a bad feeling but it's not good it's weird I have no words to describe it.... am I the only one?

I have to say I envy you. I feel TOO MUCH and it's killing me.
I spent most of my life trying NOT to feel anything. I think
the thing is, like everything else a matter of what I call "middleness."
Not too much and not too little.

I am going through a breakup with the love of my life right now yet I feel empty and void. Maybe it's because I am blocking y emotions but if anything I feel a bit of 'coldness'. No sadness, no tears, no emotional meltdown as I would have expected. It just all seems as matter of fact. Apathetic is a very good word.

[Skeezyks]

Hello MrsBkr: I am a unworthy student of the Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön. And, in her writings, Ani Pema talks about the "groundlessness" of being... "nothing to hang onto". In other words everything is always changing. There is nothing solid we can grasp... no safe zones... no sanctuaries. The state eastern religions refer to as "enlightenment" is simply achieving the ability to dwell joyfully & with equanimity within this groundless state.

I often read, in comments here on PC, where members write about feeling nothing, feeling empty, being adrift so to speak. And it has occurred to me that this feeling of nothingness is, perhaps, an experience of what is referred to as "enlightenment". It's just that we don't recognize it & we don't know what to do with it. If I'm correct, then that undefinable feeling (or lack thereof) we all have sometimes (the feeling of no feeling) is really an experience of existence as it really is. We just need to learn how to dwell within it.