Okay so I know I talk a lot about the days when something is just off - I'm grouchy, irritable etc. So I am planning on blogging something positive this week, but for now… I don't know why I've just been restless - like something is going to change, or something is going to happen (as yet it has not) so as nothing has happened or changed I've just sort of been thinking about life and how it affects each one of us so differently.
Often in life we go through in a reactive state. I love yoga and one of my favorite instructors makes a statement as I'm trying to maintain a pose about feeling uncomfortable and not reacting to it. "You can be uncomfortable, but you don't have to be reactive to it - immerse yourself in what your body is feeling, feel the ebb and flow." As I take a deep breath I sink a little deeper and maintain. I would like to better follow that advise throughout multiple aspects of my life.
We all have good times and bad times, often we don't get to choose how others treat us, what circumstances may surprise us in life, but we do get to choose are reaction - that is not to say we choose how we feel but we choose how to act on that feeling. I have often wondered how to not get mad, not feel irritated, but as I have not yet mastered that I have learned that I can feel those uncomfortable feelings but not be reactive - I can process through and decide how to act. As I was giving my kids turns tonight I thought about the ability to choose how we see a situation or the world at large. We had a bit of a tough morning with the kids, but instead of talking about any of that I brought up the 3 things I loved most about the day - this in turn made my son mention what he liked about the day.
It is not always easy but when we take a step back from ourselves and give a situation time we can then see it in the best positive light (or at least the best we can consider)
Take some time this week to stop yourself and really analyze your thoughts - are you finding the good or bad, are you processing or just reacting
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