i am inclined to think that it is batter in a lot of cases to allow your emotions to “take over,” as long as all that means is really feeling them and allowing them to be. allowing space and time for them to exist, seeking the discomfort of big emotions rather than the false comfort of suppressing them in the safety of familiar patterns that are detrimental to your health. this is such beautiful evidence of everything’s inherent “rightness,” these lessons coming in perfect succession to deepen my understanding of myself and my responses. everyone’s reactions are so different. it’s important to know what to look out for in YOUR body when difficult feelings arise. all the bliss you seek is simply in feeling the feeling, holding yourself through whatever comes up, and putting space between;
EVENT ———–> FEELING ————> RESPONSE
the event is the “external,” feeling is the “internal” and the response is how you marry the two. do you let the internal and external worlds be at war with eachother? are they lovers? friends? enemies? in your response lies an opportunity to transmute all happenings and circumstances that come to you back into pure love – love for yourself and for existence as a whole. every step in the process is for your benefit. can you believe that!?!? what an honour it is to have things occur just for you to learn from them. and to have the honour and privilege to feel and respond however you choose to.
it’s time to say goodbye to another glorious day of finding rhythm and balance. finding love in all that we see and all that we are. we are dying to this day, letting the warm, soft hands of perpetual change and passing time gently slit our throats and carry us on to a new rising sun. and why mourn today? why hold on to the blue skies and sweet birdsong? why grieve the sweeping of gathered dust or the spoonfuls of a satisfying meal? why cling to past moments as if there is anything more for them to give us? those moments give us everything. even when we can only give them a piece, a fraction of ourselves. so with this i vow to treasure the present, to die to the past and let the past die to me, to be born into the future as it births itself to me, and to always receive what comes to me with a full heart and open mind.