HOW TO REMAIN FULLY SATISFIED

How many times have you heard the phrase "fake it until you make it?"

And how many times have you attempted to do so?

The other day I had one of the most explosive bursts of anger that I've had in a long long time. As I was yelling at the top of my lungs, a voice in my head was saying, "wow, you need to calm yourself down right now!" But my mouth just kept going.

Seconds after I was finished my eyes were as big as oranges. I couldn't believe what had just happened.

I was so troubled by my reaction to this person, that it overtook my thoughts. I could hardly focus on anything that I was doing the rest of the day.

My attention just kept going back to it. I was asking myself where in the world did that come from.

As I've told you many times, I have worked very hard to get to the place of peace, tranquility and over all happiness.

My outburst was so foreign to me that I didn't recognize myself. Had this been several years back, that was a frequent occurrence.

I really thought that part of me no longer existed. So when it resurfaced, I was left to find some answers.

Did I have some underlying resentment that I hadn't dealt with? Did something trigger me to cause me to revert back to this type of behavior? Was I allowing certain things in my subconscious mind that resembled the person that I walked away from?

That night, in the shower (my therapy session,) I asked the Lord to show me why that happened.

There was no immediate answer. I just knew that I needed to shake off the situation and move forward.

Replaying the scenario over and over again was only going to keep it active in thoughts.

I try to live a life whereby apologizing, despite who's at fault, is operating with wisdom so clearly I apologized to the person who I argued with.

However, that was not enough. Especially when you want to learn and grow from your mistakes.

I heard someone say that placing a smiley face sticker over your gas gauge because you don't want to see it on "E" will only result in one thing - running out of gas lol.

So telling ourselves that we are happy all the time even though we are really not, is in fact that.

Our emotions are our guidance system. We need to place more emphasis on how we feel. Because ultimately how we feel will affect our words and thoughts. And our words and our thoughts will affect our behavior.

I've been led to believe that having negative emotions is a bad thing and we need to instantly correct it.

I believe that is partly true, but the revelation that I got regarding this unfortunate situation I'm writing about, sheds a new perspective on things for me.

Faking it until you make it will lead to a volcanic eruption. Possibly not in the same manner as me, but it is inevitable.

For you, the end result could be migraines or some other ailment in your body.

Attempting to remain fully satisfied at all time is not feasible. In fact, look at it from this angle.

DISSATISFACTION IS A CREATIVE STATE.

Meaning, that when we are dissatisfied with something, it will motivate us to seek differently. The degree of dissatisfaction is different for each of us and for different circumstances but the outcome is the same.

I wrote in a previous blog that you have to know what you don't want in order to know what you do want.

When you relax into your negative emotions about a particular situation, person, or circumstance you can then gain great understanding.

I placed a big yellow sticker with a huge smile over this person. The reality was I had a lot of animosity building between us. I ran out of gas in 5 o'clock traffic on the freeway.

Had I understood what was really transpiring, I would have been able to get out ahead of it and cleaned up some of my emotions. And the eruption of rage would not have happened.

We have the ability to change the trajectory of our emotions once we can identify what they are. But if we try and pretend they don't exist, therein lies the error.

We are God's highest form of creation. And we are creative beings. We can use our perception, which is the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through our senses and generate with that knowledge.

We are fallible, thus is why we need to depend on the Infallible.

YOU ARE DESIGNED TO REIGN IN LIFE

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