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I'm going to first discuss the negative energy emotions and how they keep us from being able to control our thoughts and how we feel helpless and weak instead of personally powerful.
Frustration is the first step to being fearful. We get frustrated because we don't know what to do about something. It isn't working and we don't have the knowledge or ability to fix it and make things work smoothly for us. It causes anxiety and stress which makes it even harder to find a solution. We fear the future because we feel powerless to stop the possible bad events that might come. Frustration is easier to release and let go of than anxiety. When we become anxious, it is because we fear something we desperately don't want to have happen. Frustration can turn into anxiety and if we feel impending danger, it becomes fear and if we feel immediate danger it can become panic. It all has to do with helplessness.
Irritation is the first step to anger. Irritation feels different than frustration. We feel frustrated because we don't feel powerful, we are not in control but irritation is an ugly little feeling that the world is against us somehow. Other people, events, objects or almost anything can trigger that feeling of resentment toward negative results. It builds up to anger easily. We feel irritated because we blame something or someone for our difficulty that won't subsist, the anger is directed to them or it and we can yell, kick something, throw it or hit just to get that feeling to calm down. Anger or anxiety can be overpowering. Logic goes out the window because it is emotions we are reacting to putting our thought process on hold. We can start out being frustrated and slip into irritation which can easily turn into full blown anger tantrums. I remember the video that went around the internet a few years ago about the guy in his work cubicle who beat up and destroyed his computer with great satisfaction. We all laughingly related with it. When we let frustration turn into irritation, we are misdirecting our emotional energy from what is really frustrating us and making us feel powerless to a handy object or person that is causing us an immediate difficulty. It never solves anything of course because it's not dealing with the real problem. Since the solution to the frustration and irritation problem and thus the anger and anxiety problem, lies within ourselves, not in anything in our environment, anytime we misdirect our emotions to things around us, we are playing games we never win and always lose. Frustration is always caused by fear or helplessness. Irritation is always caused by blaming our lack of power on something outside of ourselves. Instead of focusing on trying not to be frustrated or irritable, we need to think about why we feel powerless. Every person has the same personal space within their mind, which is their conscious mental as well as their inner psychic and subconscious space and a higher consciousness which unites them with God. We have everything we need to be a powerful human being in control of every aspect of our lives, including the thoughts we think, the physical space we occupy and the influence we have on people and objects in our world. To escape the immaturity and confusion that controls us when we don't understand our emotions and how they make us continually react negatively, we need to realize that first of all, we CAN control our thoughts. Uncontrollable, chaotic thoughts send us into anxious and desperate actions. Between thought patterns and emotional responses that keep us tied into the same negative results, we have little chance for anything better to come along. We wonder why life treats us so badly. Sometimes we blame it on God. "In returning and rest you shall be saved" .... Rest your mind from thoughts, sentences and words by focusing on something you like that makes you feel quiet and peaceful and does not stir you to do something. It could be lavender flowers on a sloping hillside or gentle rain falling into a pond. From there let your mind rest with no images or words. When your mind is free of the usual sentences and words, choose what you want to put in there. Think, "I am a powerful person, I have control of my personal mental space." "I am loved." "I have wisdom to use all my resources successfully." Do this every day or several times a day whenever you think of it. Do something every day you love to do, even if its only for a short time. Focus completely as you do it and don't worry about results or mistakes. Just enjoy. Whether its taking a bubble bath, scrapbooking, going for a walk or weeding the flowerbed, try to put yourself fully into it by focusing on every detail as you do it. Feel the textures, listen to the sounds, think about it in a way you never did before. Be sure it is physical, not reading, watching tv or computer related. These are fine at other times, but I'm talking about something that is your own, that happens creatively within your own mind and body. Reading, tv and computer are relating with other's ideas. To get in touch with our personal power, we have to leave behind the advice and admonition of others and tune in to our own personal channel within. An important part of realizing our personal power is being able to trust ourselves. When we have that inner channel turned on, we become aware of our real feelings of what we desire and need. Not what the world tells us we need or our emotional responses to others demanding something from them or in relation to them but our OWN personal desires we usually hide from others or even from ourselves. Those sweet, wonderful desires and needs we so long for but feel we don't deserve or are inadequate somehow to attain. They sometimes come up in our dreams, trying to find a way into our consciousness so we can realize them. These things are preciously our own and we deserve them. We were made with these desires inplanted in us from the beginning. We ARE "loved" so much by God and he wants us to have fulfillment in every way in abundance. The road to this fulfillment is within ourselves. When we trust our own feelings inside to guide our lives, we are on the way. For so long we have shoved them aside for the so called "important" things we have to do. This is the things the world demands. God says we need to lay aside the things of the world for the "pearl of great price" which is the beautiful pearl within our own being which he put there for us to find. It's like King Arthur going about for years searching for the "holy grail" with no success, while he loses his kingdom, his wife and ultimately his life because he never realized that both the "holy grail" and "the dream of "Camelot" were within his own heart. He should have sought to gain his own personal power by seeking the "holy grail" of his own true desires rather than the power and lust the world offers which is false and fleeting. The only things that will give us true success are those things planted within our own heart by a loving God. Everything else, no matter how great they may seem, are doomed at some point to failure. So trusting ourselves, our deep longings and feelings and knowing God wants us to have them, will motivate us powerfully into making them happen in our lives. This is why we need to start doing what we desire to do, even a little bit at a time. It will begin the process of opening a new pathway in our lives, leading to creativity, passion and fulfillment. The bottom line is: frustration is the result of not allowing ourselves to live by the desires of our heart. This universal frustration leads to anxiety, stress, fear, irritation, resentment, anger, theft, murder, war, illness, accidents and disease of all kinds and ultimately, death. It is all a lack of personal power which should be generated by trusting ourselves, trusting our God implanted deeper desires and feelings and living by them. We are all searching endlessly for the "holy grail" of power, love and wealth by following the world's way rather than seeking the "pearl of great price" within our own heart. We try to medicate, educate, entertain, and drug ourselves with an endless variety of band-aids to make it better but it never gets better. When will we stop being afraid of our own passions and desires and let them carry us into our own "Camelot?" We should instead be "afraid" to follow the world's way of fulfilling its needs. The world uses control and manipulation to get its needs met. Stealing, lies and murder to get wealth, lust and emotional games to get love and a mix of it all to get power.The results are always terrible. We should be running away from it like the plague! x When we are in control of our own mental space, we are no longer beseiged by the useless throughts that create frustration and anxiety and we can dissolve easily the unpleasant little emotions that come up, usually in the abdominal area, by refusing to give them our attention. It's amazing how quickly they disappear. Instead of panically trying to get rid of the "feelings", let them have their say and don't react. If we burn our finger or stub our toe, we know we have to deal with the pain for a little while until it dissapates. Why do we panic when we feel a little emotional pain? So let it hurt for awhile. Who cares. You don't have to become suddenly dysfunctional, get vindictive, cry or feel sorry for yourself or get depressed, because of some feeling in your abdomen. If you can tough out a little emotional pain just like the physical pain of the stubbed toe, you've just won the battle of the mind. You now have control of your emotions rather than them controlling you. You have just established the foundation of personal power in your life. It's unbelievable how simple it really is. What a lie we've been fed. The big barrier to be who we truly are and do what we truly want is simply the lack of personal power. When we establish our own power over our personal mental space in our mind, it makes it easy and natural to just be ourselves and do what we choose to do.We may have to endure some emotional distress in the abdomen for a little while, but it is endurable. The result of that is no longer being controlled by emotional stimuli. This one step creates a domino effect of positive results in our life. When we "feel" powerful we really are and taking control of our own mind makes us powerful. We are now making a turn about in our life and taking control where before we let others control us through emotionally reacting. Most of the people in America are controlled by their emotions. It's time to step out of the group think. It's time to take the wheel and steer your own life where your heart directs you! Get in touch with your desires, values and needs. Make sure they are truly your own and not programmed reactions to what you've been taught or copied from others. Its great if some of your values or desires are the same, just make sure its really you wanting them and believing in them for yourself. Then just start doing them according to what you feel inside. If you feel wonderful and good about things, do them, believe them and wonderful, good things will happen. If it's positive energy, it will generate positve energy and you will be in the flow of it. Remember that any negative feelings from your past programing, what others may do to you, or any negative thoughts from others, will manifest as negative emotions in your abdominal area. If you are in control of your personal mental space, you will be thinking only that "you are powerful, loved and successful." You will be focusing on your everyday life with your loved ones, your dreams, goals desires and what you are easily doing to accomplish them. Let the emotional feeling dissapate just like the physical feeling of a stubbed toe. It is no more important than the stubbed toe. Can you imagine crying, yelling, arguing, telling everyone about it for sympathy or throwing things at the chair you stubbed your toe on? Letting that sore toe affect you for days or even weeks or years after the initial pain had subsided? Maybe the stubbed toe now has a scar on it and every time you put your shoe on it reminded you of that fateful day it was stubbed and you got all upset again over the chair and what it did to your toe. Maybe you decided to get rid of all those bad chairs in your house and never have another one. Or maybe you kept the chairs but fearfully walked around them or always kept your shoes on so it would never happen again. It is just as silly to let our lives be controlled by the fear of an emotional feeling in our abdomen. It is very important to clear our mental space and take control of it. It is the place where we can be controlled by other people or entities of various kinds. When we are empowered and inhabit that space ourselves, we are the captian of our ship, following our heart on a steady course to success. If others are controlling us, we never get where we want to go because we are always off course following their directions to where THEY want us to go to suit their ambitions. Anyone who controls another person is ALWAYS using them in some way to get their own needs met. It is NEVER for anything that benefits the person so controlled. God's helpers never control our will. They work with our decisions and choices. Everything Satan does to harm us, God turns around working to get us to a better place. "All things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose." "Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart." It is through our heart connection to God that we live the life God gave us. We are powerful beings in control of all the dimensions of ourselves branching out from earth to Heaven itself if we follow the path of those wonderful desires and needs we long to have fulfilled that are so blessed and sacred.
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