Just as we have to exercise and look after our own physical health, each of us is responsible for our own emotions – their expressions and restraints.
The emotions are strong and many a time will win in any conflict situation between thought and feeling. So we have to maintain a co-operative team situation in recognition of their mutual importance yet retain the mind in the role of manager.
Many of us were not well informed in our youth of the importance of emotional energy. Schooling frequently is focused upon intellect and thinking capacity and failed to point out
that the secret of life success lies in our emotional energy. Our emotions provide the vital key to success or can destroy our opportunities and bring our career to ruin.
Many a person who is successful in the art of living, both materially and spiritually, will admit that their enthusiasm was an important ingredient. They will tell us that they had to learn how to govern their emotions and channel them positively and that it was hard work.
As sporting skills serve as one arena to train in physical control and development, so our daily life offers us a constant training ground for our emotions. There is not a day goes by but we have a chance to exercise positive emotions of peace, joy, love and affection, optimism and enthusiasm in our work, or in our appreciation of nature and good fortune. Equally we have to exercise restraint to curb angry responses, impatience, anxiety, greed or selfish desires.
What is that part of your consciousness that is aware of how you really feel; seeks to upgrade any poor emotions; cultivates all your good and loving emotions and seeks to direct this energy constructively to a happy outcome?
It is your own mind.
Sally Janssen’s wonderful book “Mental Fitness: The Complete Self-Help Guide”, offers timely solutions. Read more…
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