We can run but we can’t hide. When the going gets tough, I want to run.
The reason I want to run is because I don’t like how I feel and I don’t know what to do with my feelings.
The problem with running is my feelings go with me.
Something happens or someone does or says something and we have feelings.
There is something that happens between what happens and how we feel.
That something is how we think about it.
Our Thoughts Create Our Feelings!
Oh shoot! Oh great! I have mixed feelings because, if I feel bad, I am creating the thoughts that are causing me to feel bad. Shoot!
That makes me accountable for my feelings.
The great part is, no one else has power over how I feel.
I am the one who gets to choose how I feel.
When “stuff” happens or people are disrespectful, manipulative or unkind, we get to choose to take it personal or not.
It’s our choice!
We can choose thoughts of empathy, compassion, or simply “it is what it is.”
The important thing is to choose loving thoughts or thoughts of surrender.
Surrender is about letting go, not giving up.
Surrender is having the awareness that we don’t have all the answers, and we don’t have to. I surrender to God and the Universe with the knowing that I don’t always know what’s best for me. This post is more on Surrendering https://djjabin.com/our-life-reflects-our-thoughts/.
So… I stopped running and started being with my feelings and the thoughts that created them.
I give myself permission to let my feelings flow like a river and then I take some time to go upstream and look at other times that I have felt the same way so that I can see the pattern and dismantle the beliefs from the past that create the thoughts that create the feelings.
We are the only ones that can ruin our day, no on else has that power, unless we give it to them.
Here’s to thinking loving, grateful thoughts creating loving grateful feelings.
blessings & love,
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