Emotions are Energy

If emotions are energy (which they are), then will you take the reins and direct them? 

What does that mean?

​Let's say you wake up in the morning and discover that you don't feel refreshed from last night's sleep. You decide to make the best of it and go forward with your day, making coffee/tea and your typical morning routines. But then you pay your bills and your mood immediately shifts. You feel resentful, like you don't have enough money and worry about some debt you recently put on your credit card. 

If emotions are energy, then this mood previously described can either direct your ability to feel good, bad or something in between, Yes? 

What if you could step outside of the emotion and decide in that moment what you wanted to do with it?

Using the emotion that occurred from paying your bills; there are several options or choices after you become conscious of this feeling.

"Damn, I feel so broke! (anger) . . . " or "I'm depressed now (sadness) . . . " or "How am I going to pay off my credit card? (anxiety). . . " or "This really stinks, having to pay such a high utility bill (resentment) . . ."

Well, any one of these emotions can be used for your next step. 

​Getting conscious means realizing you have the ability to choose what you'd like to do.

Anger could get you to the point of sitting down to write out a plan to pay things off. (Feeling motivated)

Sadness could get you to the point of making a new budget. (Feeling empowered)

Anxiety could get you to deal with the present moment. (Feeling capable.)

Resentment can flip into gratitude - "I'm glad I have the money to pay this bill!"

Is there anything greater than that? Being able to use our emotion so that it serves us?

Yes, actually there is.

Our emotions can also give us information about ourselves. 

But that's a different topic for next time.

​Until, then happy days to you, being the director of your emotions!