Distressing emotions come from distressing thoughts, happy emotions come from happy thoughts. You can’t control the thoughts you think, any more than you can control our breath for any length of time but there are ways to mitigate the runaway emotions.
With humans, however, it never seems to be a straightforward endeavor. For some reason most of us need to struggle, fail and flail about on the way to discovering how we were meant to share out talents and gifts with the world. Why?
Dragons are not to be slayed because they are aspects of you. When you face them and bring them alongside you benefit from their fierceness and power. What if you had that boldness working for you? Rather like training a horse to ride so that you can use it’s speed and energy to go farther, faster.
What if you could make decisions of all kinds from the framework of straightforward preferred choices? You prefer coffee over tea, you prefer interesting work over tedious tasks, you prefer thoughtful people over inconsiderate people. Effortless, simple and freeing.
Are you using your intuition to guide you in making important decisions? Hopefully so.
Could you use the observation as an opportunity and ask yourself “I wonder how I could see myself as self-assured?” “What is it that has her appear confident to me?” What can I learn from him about myself?”
