People can choose their emotional lens
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Updated: November 02, 2009 9:04 PM
In each and every moment, we choose our reality. In each and every moment, we decide if we are going to be happy, sad, angry, jealous, excited, depressed, or any of the other emotional states of being.
Even when we feel wildly out of control of our life, we are completely in control of our emotional state, we are simply choosing to feel wildly out of control in that moment.
Our emotional states are like items on a buffet table. At any given moment, all of these emotional states are present upon the table of our minds and available for us to choose.
When we choose an emotion, our mind moves to feed that choice, creating more thoughts to support it.
As the thoughts begin to swell, the body responds to the thoughts. The mind then begins to perceive the external world through the emotional lens we have chosen.
Thus the “reality” of our life changes, depending on the emotional lens that we have chosen to use.
The way we choose an emotional state is really quite simple. As I mentioned before, there is a vast array of emotional states available to us at any given moment, like an internal buffet.
As these states move through us, we choose to shift our mental attention to one in particular, very much like deciding to have a taste of the Greek salad as we survey all of the many dishes on the buffet table.
By shifting our mental attention to this particular emotional state, we also shift our intention to manifest a “reality” that supports this state as well. Attention and intention create “reality.”
When we become aware that we are choosing every state we enter into, it allows us to accept both our responsibility for our current emotional state and our ability to choose differently.
As we practice making different choices, we see over and over again how these different choices change our reality.
This repeated experience teaches us in turn to be less attached to our idea of what is and what is not. For we learn that so long as we view the world through an emotional lens, it is distorted to justify the existence of the lens.
Next month we will look at a simple meditation technique that will help you to become aware of the emotional buffet within at any given time, and will teach you to make conscious choices.
Kavita Maharaj is the owner/operator of Red Door Yoga. Call 250-751-1458 or see www.reddooryoga.ca for information.
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