How Are You Feeling?
How
are you feeling now? How were you feeling two hours ago? And how were you
feeling when you woke up this morning? Would you say that your feelings have
been consistent during the day? If your feelings are fleeting. if they chop and
change throughout the day with every passing incident, then how can you be in
control of yourself and the situation? How can you be at peace?
When
someone praises me. I may feel happy. confident, worthy and possibly even smug.
but when tomorrow the same person puts me down I may feel insulted,
disheartened, and even depressed I can even become a slave to a situation — I
expect the sun to shine today and it rains instead. so I am miserable. Yet. I
am the same person today as I was yesterday!
If
we allow other people to dictate our mood, it means we are dependent upon them
for our happiness and our self-worth. If we are allowing our state of mind to
change minute by minute. how can we be as stable and serene as we might like to
be?
We
sometimes make references to our gut feeling or gut reaction implying that we
are correct in responding to that feeling. It doesn't necessarily mean that if
it comes from our gut. that it is true. Often the gut feeling is a reflection
of our subconscious and not our rational mind. And if we have not taken time to
clean out our subconscious through the practice of meditation then we will be
overwhelmed by the uprising of negative thoughts and feelings.
Every
feeling begins with a thought. The mind, the originator of the thoughts. is
like a chameleon. changing colours at every beat. It is hard to distinguish its
true colour in amongst the myriad of thoughts. questions. opinions and
judgements that are passing through moment by moment. The problem is that our
thought reactions are so habitual, we hardly even notice them. But monitor your
mind for a day and you will notice that an unhappy state of mind is preceded by
a negative thought and a happy state is the result of positive uplifting
thoughts.
It
serves us to create good and positive thoughts rather than negative ones,
because for example. if we dislike someone, it will immediately manifest in our
face and behaviour towards them. They will catch our mood if we are in front of
them or if they are thousands of miles away they will catch our vibration.
If
we create good feelings, we raise not only our own spirits, but the spirits of
those around us: we can affect the atmosphere in any given situation which most
often leads to a better outcome for all.
With
one thought we can change the state of our feeling. And with consistent
powerful thoughts we can maintain a happy and contented state of mind.
It's
time... to get in touch with our original, true nature, that purest part of us.
As we regain our inner strength. we become the masters of our own thoughts and
feelings. We are no longer at the mercy of things around us. and we can choose
our desired state of mind. Ultimately, as we work towards mastery over our
feelings, we can reach a state of inner peace and happiness in both rain and
shine!
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