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Today I’m talking to you about the action that you take in your life. When there is a problem to solve or a goal you want to reach, I’m all for taking action…but first I want you to pay attention to the emotions that are fueling your action. The emotions fueling you will determine how effective your action is and what the result is that you get from that action. I want your fuel to be as empowering as possible. Tune in today for more explanation and specific examples.
So with your podcast, we have learned that we choose how we feel, we fuel our own emotions. No emotion can be thrust upon us from an outside source.
We have also learned that negative emotion is always going to occur, we can never be happy one hundred percent of the time. In this podcast it was stated that it’s important to sit and be sure to process our negative emotions, else it can lead to finished health emotionally and even physically.
Here is where I have a question: how do we determine true emotion? If emotion is how I choose to feel, does that mean I should simply try and change it? That I should note that I am choosing to feel frustrated, annoyed, etc., and then work to choose a different emotion instead? Or do I sit with those negative emotions I choose to feel and process them?
I hope that makes sense, thank you for making the effort to put this content out in the world. If for no one else, it’s changing me.
That was meant to say diminished health, not finished, I apologize.
Hi Rachel – This is a great question.. thanks for posting it. You absolutely can change any emotion you want to because your thoughts are always the cause of them. But there will be times when you won’t want to either because you just don’t feel like it or it is an emotion (even though we might label it negative) that you want to feel. For example, if a loved one passes away, I want to feel sadness or grief for a while. Even though my thoughts are causing that pain, it’s what I would want to feel…. so I would just process it until I’m ready to move on from it. Other times, the emotion isn’t necessary and I don’t want to feel it (like worry) so I will take a look at my thoughts and change it. Hope that clarifies a bit for you. Thanks for listening.