Exploring emotions

"How you react to your experience. That is is the point of your power. What you perceive of the experience will form your belief. Your belief will define your experiences. How you choose to think about all this will define you.

Your reality can be an illusion of your making or a prison of circumstance. The choice is always yours. Either now or in the hereafter... Why wait. Choose now. The wheel of life on the spoke of love can be driven or it can ride you into the dirt. Steer clear of self created labels on an incomplete map. Open yourself up to a path that serves your greatest good.

Often the best path is to simply be aware of your thoughts. Your mind will make every effort to make rushed leaps of mental associations. Left to run rampet they will carry you away. Giving control to the lower ego of rampet emotion. Not that such passions are bad, but that they keep you from contemplating your experiences.

Then you are left with raw emotion or others defining your existence. To keep yourself from this can be done by simply deciding that other labels are not in your best interest. That contemplation on your reality is better."---My Spirit Teacher, Z

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Random musing: The power to change life can be about exploring emotion.

I was thinking about this on the bus last night. Thinking: how much of my life is spent re-hashing and mulling thoughts over why I don't like the way I feel. Which then my Spirit Teacher popped in and we had a little discussion...

"People always say focus on what you want rather than what you don't want. This is because what you focus on is what you will experience. But many times, what we don't want is really a certain emotion applied to an experience. i.e....

"I feel bad; I feel shame; I feel guilt; I feel pain; I feel betrayed; I don't like...etc." --about or over some aspect of our behaviors or thoughts. This can be an intensive self creating thought that is full of original creative thoughts. So since we are focusing so hard on it we will usually experience more of it.

This becomes something about ourselves we are not comfortable with... WHY?

.. WHY, is the key. We must fully explore and understand the root of our feelings to become comfortable with them. Until then we will have difficulty changing a feeling we don't like.

And sometimes we let others tell us what we don't like or how we feel. This could be through, Action, words, culture, beliefs, society and all culminating in discomfort for us. This is because when we look closer we actually desire that which makes us uncomfortable.... why... why... why...

Sometimes it is because the cause of the feeling actually describes us. It is currently a part of who we are. In some way it has become fundamental to our state of being. Now whether this is desired or not totally depends on what you want or what you allow others to create in your reality.

Right or wrong is irrelevant when placed against how all this makes you feel and what if anything you wish to do about it. Sometimes who you really are is just- fine, and, it is where you should be to experience that which you have desired to experience. If so; Then Own It. Other times it is a wake up call to explore and edit your current state of being. This editing will help you increase your awareness, thus enabling you to own or take ownership over how you decide your state of being should be.

Changing your reality can be easy or hard, but if you want to succeed you have to keep at it. Power to change your life comes from conscious awareness and exploration of the self!"

--- Lessons with and from my Spirit Teacher.