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Can We Make Choices to Work with and Through Negative Emotions?
Negative emotions are unavoidable. But we can choose to work with and through them.
Negative emotions: everyone has them, feels them, and experiences them. How that manifests for me is not how it manifests for you. But in our own way, we each experience this.
I started my day with enthusiasm and positive anticipation for what was coming. My morning reading ritual started got underway — but then, noting the time, I had to end it early to post my blog and prep myself for a Zoom call.
Got that done. Great. Forced myself to take my morning walk. This was largely good — but autumn is here, and I was chilled for most of it.
Got home, had breakfast, and considered my next move. This blog needed to be written. Meditate, see if a topic comes to me.
I chose to sit on the deck in the sun. It was warm enough, now. But my YouTube meditation vid began with a political commercial — which angered me. Then, the landscapers started all their mowers and blowers at the same time. I tried to stay with my meditation — but then a bee landed on my skin, causing me to snap back to the moment to shake it off.
