The only thing we have any true control over in life is our inner world. We can’t control what others do, nor should we. They have a right to follow their journey as they choose.
Unfortunately, what happens in our world often causes us pain. We feel grief, hurt, anger, resentment, a whole myriad of emotions as a result of what happens. When we remain wrapped up in that emotion for long periods not only do we get stuck, often for years, but we give our personal power away to the source. That may be another person who caused the pain, or politics, finances, even the environment.
The point is, the person or incident has taken ownership of our attention, our emotions and our power. We are no longer in control.
Now I’m not saying everything has to be light and happy and that you suppress your feelings. Not at all! Dive into the grief, embrace your anger. Equally, wring every single gram of joy, laughter and happiness from the good things that happen.
It’s important to feel life! But, if you stay in that emotion, whether happy or sad, you relinquish your power and remain in a state of polarity that leads to imbalance, disharmony and dis-ease in all areas of your life.
It can be really difficult to shift out of that emotional state. It takes consciousness, commitment and clarity to develop the skills required to move from the grip of emotion to the point of balance. But once you have wrung all you can out of the emotion, once you have experienced it completely, you need to disconnect yourself from it before you become a victim of that emotion, held tightly in its grip and powerless.
In order to live in conscious engagement with Source, your Highest Self, you must be able to consciously shift out of the turbulence that is created within the emotional state. Once you consciously remove yourself from immersion in the emotion, you move into the powerful point of balance and harmony, the point where you experience stillness and peace.