169: New Life Perspectives with Liz Larson and Bill McKenna - Episode 169169: New Life Perspectives with Liz Larson and Bill McKenna - Episode 169
UK Health Radio Podcast
Bill McKenna discusses the idea that feelings function as prayers, shaping experience, relationships and even victimisation. He shares research, personal observations and simple Cognomovement tools aimed at changing entrenched emotional patterns.
45:35•13 Jul 2026
Your Feelings as Prayer: New Life Perspectives with Bill McKenna
Episode Overview
- Feelings act like ongoing prayers, continually shaping life experiences in both positive and negative ways.
- Automatic emotions are driven by the nervous system and subconscious, often programmed through early and generational trauma.
- Studies on gait and victim selection suggest that unresolved emotional patterns can be visible in the body and attract mistreatment.
- Allowing a difficult sensation fully, noticing where it sits in the body, and relaxing micro‑tensions can help an emotion dissolve.
- Combining full eye‑rolling movements with allowance of feelings is presented as a simple way to begin changing ingrained emotional states.
“Our feeling is our prayer, and our prayer always gets answered.”
Gain insights from experts and survivors on how much your inner emotional climate can shape day‑to‑day life. On UK Health Radio’s "New Life Perspectives", Bill McKenna lays out a bold idea: "our feeling is our prayer, and our prayer always gets answered" – for better or worse. Across the conversation, you’ll hear how automatic emotions like anger, guilt and fear aren’t just moods; they’re nervous‑system programmes running in the background.
Bill talks about growing up in a religious setting where prayer sounded like begging, and contrasts that with the view that your steady emotional state is constantly sending out a signal that life responds to. The episode looks at why some people seem to attract repeated victimisation, using examples from criminal studies on body gait and school classrooms where kids instinctively respect some teachers and ignore others.
There’s discussion of adverse childhood experiences (ACE scores) and even research on mice, used to show how trauma can pass through generations and sit in the body as hyper‑vigilance or chronic tension. For anyone wrestling with anxiety, resentment or old family pain, the practical section is where things get really useful.
Bill outlines simple Cognomovement tools: slowly rolling the eyes in a full circle while allowing a difficult feeling to be fully present, noticing where it sits in the body, and relaxing tiny muscle tensions that keep emotions locked in place. He suggests that, over time, this can shift someone out of chronic low‑level states into more ease, gratitude and authenticity.
There’s a gentle thread of humour and straight‑talk throughout, especially around guilt having a "useful shelf life of about three seconds". The episode speaks to people interested in mental wellbeing, recovery from harsh backgrounds, or anyone who’s tired of feeling like life is happening to them rather than through them. Could changing your relationship with your own feelings change the "answers" your life keeps sending back?
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