Welcoming your emotions!

It's almost 4 in the morning. I am on a little mini vacation with my son before he goes back to school and while I should be sleeping soundly I am awake. Awake with thoughts and emotions pouring through my head.

Life throws all sort of "Things" at us and we can choose how we handle those situations with a number of emotions and reactions.

I recently had something happen that drove a roller coaster ride of negative emotions through me. You name I felt it. Everything from fear to frustration, anger to rage and resentment.

While I will not tell you about "The Thing" that happened, because it could be anything that drives us to negative emotions, I look at a life and see that there can be two sides to everything.

I woke up excited like Christmas morning one day this week, a day later I was sad and upset. There is ugliness in the world, but there is beauty. There is fear and there is Love. There is the deepest of sorrow and regret and there is the joy and the triumph of success.

I came to the conclusion that I am going to welcome my emotions and go through them and observe them. You never really hang onto an emotion for too long. Most seem to fade away. Some seem to resurface from triggers, but they too fade away, good or bad.

You can flip through the TV channels and experience all the emotions you like. Watch an uplifting movie about a persons rising from rags to riches or defeat to winning and you are filled with enthusiasm and motivation and then turn on the news a witness violence and bloodshed and be filled with sadness and despair.

We are not going to stop the emotions from coming. Maybe we don't even get to choose them as I suggested. Maybe all we can really do is just sit down at some point in our day, maybe even while they are happening and observe and learn from them.

Health and Happiness!

Bill