Day 95: Where Your Emotions Are Really Coming From

Do you ever wake up feeling anxious or depressed and wonder where that feeling is coming from?

You were just asleep.

Nothing happened in the two seconds between you waking up and realizing you felt this way.

You might think you must have had a bad dream.

Maybe.

The fact is, our thoughts are lightning fast.

And we are only consciously aware of a small part of them.

In reality, all of our emotions are coming from inside of us.

It’s our perspective on things that tells us whether we are happy, sad, or could care less about something that happens.

Wayne Dyer says, “No one can depress you. No one can make you anxious. No one can hurt your feelings. No one can make you anything other than what you allow inside.”

This is about responding to things you see as conflicts rather than quickly reacting.

It’s about claiming your sovereignty and not allowing yourself to fall into a victim mindset.

You are becoming emotionally aware, and by now you’ve established an emotional set point that you can continue to raise to a more positive, calm, self-led state.

The Teachings of Abraham talks about this:

“As you consciously consider the way you feel, you will get better and better at directing the Source Energy, and you will become a disciplined and joyous Deliberate Creator.


With practice, you will be able to achieve focused control of this Creative Energy; and, like the skilled sculptor, you will take delight in the molding of this Energy that creates worlds, and direct it toward your individual creative endeavors.”


It begins with awareness.


Then you start to influence your emotions by accepting or rejecting where they are trying to take you.


When something challenging happens, you begin to catch yourself before going down the “feeling bad” rabbit hole.


In the last few weeks, this has happened to me twice as I’ve been working on manifesting something big in my life.


At one point, it appeared it couldn’t happen because a person who had to approve it was 100% not open.


At first, my stomach dropped.


Everything I had been working toward could be over. It wasn’t going to happen.


I started searching my mind for another way.


There must be another solution.


Then I went and sat on the beach and told myself to stop.


Breathe.


Let it go and let God.


If it was for me to have this, there would be another way.


I just needed to accept it, one way or the other, so I wasn’t attached to the outcome.


By the way, non-attachment to something I really want has been one of the hardest things for me to learn.


I took another deep breath.


And a calmness came over me.


I was not happy with the situation, but I was done trying to make it happen.


It either would work or it wouldn’t.


A few days later, without talking to the person involved, I had approval.


I didn’t ask what made him change his mind. It didn’t matter.


Another situation played out in a very similar way last week, when something came in at double the cost I had budgeted.


That was quite a shock.


I went through the same process.


And all of a sudden, three more contractors approached me with bids that were much better than the first two.


You just never know.


So you need to have faith.


Faith in your higher self to know what is right for you.


And how to bring it to you when your thoughts and desires are in alignment.


And also this…


When you stop forcing, when you stop trying to control every outcome, you allow space for something you couldn’t see before.


That’s not passive.


That’s alignment.

Today’s Gentle Practice


Pause at some point today when you notice a shift in how you’re feeling.


Before reacting, ask yourself:

“What am I thinking right now?”


Notice the thought behind the feeling.

T
hen gently ask:

“Do I want to continue down this path?”


Take a breath.

And choose your next thought more deliberately.

If this resonates, I’d love to hear what you’ve noticed about where your emotions are really coming from.

With you,

Lynn