Life has been a serious of up and down complications the past two weeks that have had me on an emotional roller coaster. I haven’t posted because I didn’t want to write about my feelings, but yesterday I remembered that my tag line is “Words of Heart, Mind, & Soul” so if I wrote I would not only be honest with my readers, but honest with myself. That one thought gave me an epiphany that has given me a new perspective and I wanted to share it with you, because the one thing I know for a fact is that we all have good and bad days. The weather has been just as tumultuous with this heat wave sending lightening storms throughout the valley, which is what led me to the recognition that I was having the same type of storms in my life. Calm, blue, and peaceful one moment but dark, grey, clouds, the next, and during bursts of extreme chaos there can be thunder and lightening. These chaotic storms that are so beautiful outside, are not so beautiful within a person. I understand now that both are releases of energy and pressure, but can leave a trail of destruction in its wake if aimed at an object. I ultimately never felt better after an outburst, and was falling in to a deeper level of sadness until the wind blew and changed my emotional state once again to feeling joy. I am only now coming to realize that I cannot always control my feelings, just as not every situation is controllable, but I can control my reaction to said situation. The new kid’s movie out right now, Inside Out, sums up my blog exactly. Not to give anything away, if you have yet to see it, but the premise is that our feelings cannot go exist, but throughout the movie, in order to be fully whole, that is exactly what has to happen….. we must accept our sadness in order to feel true joy. So, the next time that you feel mad, or sad, take a moment and work through your thoughts instead of trying to deny them or push them to the side, and maybe, just maybe, you will avoid that tumultuous storm!
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