You Should Feel How You Feel
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This is Awareness for Everyone, an exploration of Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves. I am MJ Blehart, writer, blogger, editor, and 21st century philosopher. Welcome to Episode 66 – You Should Feel How You Feel
You, and only you, can live your life
So far, for most of the people I know, 2020 has been a pretty shitty year.
Let’s see…COVID-19 continues to tear us apart on multiple levels. The government is not doing enough because the Executive branch is criminally incompetent to lead – and half the Legislative branch only follows their lead and is not being a check for balance. (Seventh Grade social studies, anyone?)
The ongoing exposure of systemic racism, protests, militarized police forces, and the issues that stem from them can’t continue to not be addressed. Black Lives Matter. Change is happening, but it is slow – and often infuriatingly so. Too many people have too much privilege to understand the depth of the problem – and why it’s an issue in the first place.
I’m not even going to touch on the shitshow that is the upcoming election.
You feel how you feel
All of this is causing mass amounts of anxiety, uncertainty, anger, frustration, depression, fear, loathing, and almost any other negative emotion I could describe. This is totally understandable – because if you are at all a logical and reasonable person many of the ongoing issues make ZERO sense.
While I advocate for mindfulness, seeking/finding/creating positivity, and doing what you can to get out of the downward spiral – it’s important to recognize and acknowledge your feelings.
Nobody lives in a bubble, nor should they.
Toxic positivity doesn’t recognize, acknowledge, or in any way deal with the negativity you will encounter. Because no matter who you are or what you do negatives will come into your life.
Practicing mindfulness
Mindfulness makes you aware in the here-and-now of your thoughts, feelings, and actions. Being conscious of this gives you control to alter and change what you are thinking, what and how you are feeling, and the intentions of your actions.
That control will let you change your state. So if you are feeling negative you can choose to change it.
Why bother? Because that can spur you to find its opposite and make your life better.
Practicing mindfulness opens you to taking control. When you see that you need not be a victim of whatever you are going through you empower yourself.
Take the time you need to feel how and what you feel. But be mindful when it is not serving you or otherwise interfering with your life. You don’t need anyone’s permission to experience what you do – good or bad. But you, and only you, can live your life.
Don’t neglect to choose and decide what that looks like and how best it serves you.
Closing:
Thank you for joining me for Awareness for Everyone, an exploration of Conscious Reality Creation and living the best lives we can for ourselves. If you have questions or comments feel free to email me at author@mjblehart.com, or contact me via Facebook at blehartmj, and on Instagram and Twitter at mjblehart. Thank you to Fe Mahoney, the awesome artist who created my cover art. If you would like to commission work from her, email her at veinsofink2017@gmail.com. Please take a moment to check out my blogs, The Ramblings of the Titanium Don, at titaniumdon.com, my articles on Medium.com as MJ Blehart, and my assorted published books on Amazon. Thank you, and I hope you are discovering how awareness for everyone really is something that you can practice to live more fully and improve your life.
