From the author: There are “eternal themes”. In the practice of counseling and therapy, one such topic is working with feelings. Some aspects of this “eternal topic” are covered in this article. According to Rogers, “the goal that man most desires to achieve, the goal that he consciously or unconsciously pursues, is to become himself” (1). It is feelings that bring us closer to ourselves. Awareness of our feelings is directly related to a better understanding of how we organize our lives. A sign of a good development of the therapeutic process is considered when the client is ready and decides to “explore increasingly unfamiliar, strange and dangerous feelings in himself,” and this is possible when “the client gradually begins to understand that he is accepted without any conditions” (1). Conventionally, we can identify a number of client problems regarding feelings: clients cannot control their intensity; they get stuck in certain feelings; they do not fully understand what exactly they feel; they repress, suppress feelings; they complain that they cannot feel at all; many clients think that feelings contradict reason, and therefore they are lost when feelings take over In therapy, we help clients: name, be aware of their feelings so that they could say: “I feel pain, anger, ... resentment, etc.” experience feelings “here-and-now” accept their feelings: “yes, I feel pain, ... etc.” understand what context (situations, people, conditions) the appearance and manifestation of feelings are associated with; understand what emotions indicate in the context of his life; realize the meaning, the meaning of a feeling, find your own, natural and adequate, form of expressing feelings. Emmy van Deurzen says that “teaching a person to live in harmony with his emotions is somewhat akin to teaching him how to handle a surfboard in a raging ocean. At first you experience yourself in the complete power of unpredictable waves. They overwhelm you before you even have time to prepare for it. And you feel half-drowned, depressed, almost suffocated or drowned. But with experience you acquire a sense of the direction of the flow, and then you can ride on the crest of the wave and not be knocked down by it. Then there is a powerful feeling of mastery and harmony. The ocean remains invincible, but now it is accessible, and its power can be used” (2). Emmy van Deurzen offers her view of emotions, schematically presented in the form of an emotional cycle, a circle. The cycle goes downward from the possession of what is valuable to a person, when he experiences pride, through the experience of the loss of what is valuable (jealousy, anger, fear) and the absence of what is valuable (grief, guilt). Then, ascending from the feeling of emptiness of existence (sorrow, guilt) to the desire for what is valuable, to the desire to have what is desired (hope, love) and to the affirmation of final possession (joy). Anxiety is not included in the diagram, since it is the most common basic experience that accompanies any experience . “Anxiety has a negative expression in Angst, or anguish, and a positive expression in excitement and anticipation” (2). Neither emotion is good or bad in itself. It only shows where we are relative to something valuable to us. It is important that every feeling has both positive and negative characteristics. This has great potential for reviving a sense of vitality when we are below, and for experiencing realism when we are above, in contact with what is valuable to us. I would like to add that feelings, emotions, moods are akin to nature, where there are also cycles, seasonality, changes. And I would like to end this short article about feelings with a joke, an anecdote. A Jew comes to a rabbi for advice. “Rabbi, everything is terrible with me. I was fired from my job, I don’t have enough money to live on, my wife left me, illnesses came, my children are being insolent. There is no life, all that remains is to die! What will you tell me?” The rabbi says: “I will give you one piece of advice: come home and write on a piece of paper “THIS SHALL PASS.” Hang it in a visible place and look and read it several times a day. Come back in 3 months.” After 3 months, the Jew comes to the rabbi again. “Rabbi, this is a miracle!”/