DeLilah Boyd
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Queen of The Moment
Own It! Often times, we are faced with great sadness and despair, simply because of what we are feeling. We forget that we have a right to choose what we do with our emotions. We are given this life to explore this beautiful planet and all that we encounter within it, yet we are most likely to respond to our existence based on what and how we feel in any given circumstance. Our lives are not conditional when it comes to the experience of bliss. Nothing and no one can confiscate our right to choose how we respond to unfavorable circumstances. Of course, life will throw us left and right upon the coursing currents of unforgiving streams of emotional disturbance, but how we manage in the water is what counts. We all suffer deep emotional dis-ease at some point, whether it is instigated by our own children, mate, family member, friend or co-worker. It happens to all of us. What doesn’t always happen is our remembrance of our rights to choose how we react and respond. We find ourselves approaching that proverbial emotional elevator, and we somehow always seem to press the button that takes us DOWN, don’t we? Well, why? It’s as if we don’t know in that moment that we can choose to take that same elevator UP! It’s us, isn’t it? We are pushing the buttons, ultimately. It’s our very own choice. The doorman of our mind is standing there when the doors open. “Which way, sir or madam?” And then, we choose. We choose the floor, don’t we? There are so many floors. The let’s just have a few drinks floor, the let’s get high floor, the lets be promiscuous floor, let’s not forget the gambling floor, or let's beat our mate or children floor! Any one of those have been pushed repeatedly by someone in our society. It happens every day. They take the elevator down. Let me give you an example:
By DeLilah Boyd4 years ago in Motivation