You cannot control your feelings Dear One.

But you can choose to think a different thought and change them anytime you would like.

Some may call this a denial of what is.

But we would call it, getting yourself into a better feeling place so that you can more effectively deal with what is.

There is no rule anywhere Dear One, that says that you have to feel badly when dealing with a difficult situation.

You do not need to choose to acquiesce to every single whim of the ego Dear One – the ego that is working so diligently to capture and keep all of your attention away from your heart.

It knows that the wisdom of the heart will always overshadow it, will always eclipse it, will always raise your awareness to such a state that the wining, yielding, forceful, frightened, mocking voice of the ego will no longer be heard.

When you listen to your heart, the voice of the ego will disappear into the background. It will become nothing more than noise to you – a reminder of just how far you have traveled from where you once were.  It will become nothing more than a point of reference.  And before you know it, it will disappear completely.  And it knows this.  That is why the ego will do all that it can to capture and hold on to your attention.

It is not doing so to harm you , but only to try and ensure its own survival.  But fear not – no harm will come to it, no pain will come to you, if you allow the voice of the ego to dissolve.  It will simply vanish and melt back into the energy of all that is.

It will be fine Dear one, but more importantly, know that you will be fine without it.

And all of this will begin to happen as soon as you remember to connect to your heart, start listening to it attentively, and allow yourself to feel and receive all that it has to offer.

Allow yourself to relinquish control Dear One.

Allow yourself to bond with your own heart.

Allow yourself to feel its beating.  Allow yourself to feel its wanting.  Allow yourself to feel its passion.   Allow yourself to notice its subtleties – when it is happy, or glad, or giddy, when it is questioning, when it is certain, when it is emotionless, when it is filled with joy, filled with regret, filled with sadness, filled with love.

Allow yourself to feel it all Dear One.  Allow yourself to want more for yourself than just the absence of discomfort, the absence of pain, the absence of desire.

Please do not make it your hearts ambition to feel as little as possible Dear One.

For that would be as great a loss as choosing to close your eyes forever after witnessing only one sunrise.

There can be no brighter future ahead Dear One, if you don’t allow more light into your present.

The very best thing that you can do to create a better tomorrow for yourself is to find something to be happy about today.

Think a positive thought. Speak a positive word.  Take a positive action.

Find something, anything, big or small to be positive about Dear One.

Why?

Because it is the surest thing that you can do for yourself in this moment to shift your current circumstance for the better.

Your life is not a story To be continued… Dear One.  Your life is a story of firsts, fresh starts, new beginnings.   With the dawn of each new day you get to start again, start over, start fresh…..from the beginning.  That is what is so great about it.

Don’t, Don’t, Don’t carry the events, feelings and choices of yesterday with you into tomorrow if you don’t want them there.  It is just as easy not to do this as it is to do this.  All that is required is a little bit of consciousness.  There is no rule that requires you to continue to carry all of your baggage with you from one day to the next.  What you carry with you is a choice.  And since you are the one doing the choosing, why not choose to carry over only your very favorite things?

The moment that you decide that you are ready to embrace order in your life Dear One, your life will begin to become orderly.

Why?

Because once you decide, once you become certain of what it is that you want, your attitude, your choices, your actions, and  your behaviors will all begin to support that decision.

Once you decide Dear One, you will seek out, choose, create and attract order over chaos.

The hard part is not creating what you want.

The hard part is deciding what it is that you really want to create.

Feeling secure, emotional security, is a state of mind Dear One.

One that you can choose to experience anytime that you would like.

You can choose to allow yourself to experience it when you have the relationship that you want, or the job that you want, or the salary that you want, or the house that you want, or the family that you want, or the body that you want.

OR

You can choose to experience it right now, just as you are.

It’s totally and completely up to you.

If your goal is to prolong your suffering Dear One, to make it worse, add to it, to expand upon it, and invite as many people as you possible can to join you in it, then by all means keep talking about it, beating yourself up about it, focusing on it, and judging yourself harshly for whatever it is that you believe that you have done or have had done to you.

But, if what you desire is to let it go, heal from it, improve upon it, distance yourself from it, change it for the better, move past it, and in every way possible, get over it as quickly as you possibly can, then you’re going to want to choose positive, loving, compassionate, hopeful and enthusiastic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors instead.