When you're the boss, your mood affects everyone. You have to learn to manage that.
When you're not the boss, it's easy to feel disempowered.
In many ways, we feel overwhelmed by our world, our society, our jobs, friends, government, school...
When faced with the perceived lack of control over our lives, the environment is ripe for depression, frustration, even anger.
First, realize you're not alone. Most people have the same problem.
Some people have really extreme problems, and from them we learn the core truth about personal empowerment.
What happens in your mind is the center of your truth. Your thoughts are your kingdom, and you must never give up control of your mind.
When wrongfully imprisoned, the strongest people learn that there is one thing they can still control, their mind. They learn to live mentally, and stay alert for the day when they will be free from tyranny.
Without that harsh lesson, we make the mistake of looking outside ourselves for fulfillment. We allow the failures of the world and our society to become our disappointments. We live and die on the waves of an ocean of the world's drama.
The inner mind cannot reach the center of calm when you will not be still.
Solitude brings that enlightenment to some people. For others, it is a practice of meditation, learning to still the mind.
Look around you. You have many good things. Can you count them? Yes, there is loss, but have you gained from it? Have you learned empathy from the sorrow of lost love? Do you understand what it feels like to be starving, because you've been there? What did your suffering teach you? What good can you do in the world with this knowledge?
Now that you have looked inside, look out there again. How can you raise up those around you? Maybe that would make you happy.
No comments:
Post a Comment