Emotions

I think about this blog often and yet I don't find myself coming to write. I am torn with feelings of self doubt, afraid to be too negative, too positive, or to melancholy. Strange, when this was my main venue for releasing and sharing the energies around fighting breast cancer. Here's the deal, life is full of ups and downs, whether I am fighting an illness or not. We are all survivors! Survivors of the constant flow of energy that surrounds us. During the course of a day, many of us go through so many emotions, we probably couldn't count. From watching the news and crying with the mother who lost her legs saving her kids in the tornado, to joy of seeing a friend, anger when the kids do something that strikes the chord, and so on.

The bottom line, I have to remember to stop and think - is this drama and all the emotion I am wasting worth it? Life is full of so much beauty, we just have to stop along the way and grab it. Rather than picking up others negative emotions, today I will choose to pick up the positive. Kind of like gardening, I would not cut a dead flower and display it in a vase - I would take that flower, acknowledge that it is dead and toss it. Negative emotions are dead flowers to me, I will embrace the individual, love them, and not pickup their dead flowers for them.

If you really think about it, energy spreads....like the pollen of a flower. Positive energy goes a lot further and does so much good. How many times has someone given you a little pick me up somewhere by offering a simple complement or conversely pissed you off for hours because of their poor attitude? I know I have effected people both ways, many times. Hopefully, I have done more good than bad. Although I can certainly call to mind times I acted poorly and probably pissed someone off for hours.....oops. Dumb analogy, I know...but it makes sense to me, at least for today.