Choose your REACTION to any situation

Meaningless ranting fills the soul with so much stress, for the list of THINGS TO DO becomes large… when you know that you are going to be in the frame of painful thoughts often, without realizing it the mind starts to strategically map the extent of damage it is going to cause you.
In recent articles and conversations there has been an overwhelming majority of people who continue to speak of their lives so bogged down by the circumstances, relationships, work pressure, recession and of course the weather. In an internal analysis, I’ve observed a very important trend that seems to fill each of these phenomena. The inner voice saying “me too!”
Most conversations become most important because of the empathy factor. Please notice that often the empathy factor only comes when not too much good is happening… when good is happening… we often hear an inner voice that says “hmmm… why not ME”. Thus, as an entity we detach ourselves from the excitement that the other person feels.
Once you understand the inner voice and the direction it leads you toward. You start to understand the remote control that often you lend to other people… and they play their part brilliantly… they know they can control your actions and reactions with the power of a thought.
Over a period of time… you are accustomed to react in a particular way to every situation and before you realize it… your thought pattern is an identity that people refer to as your personality. The personality is only therefore as volatile as the circumstance presented to it. Bring bad news… and the personality becomes depressive and hurt. Bring in Good news and the personality becomes buoyant and peppy… You feel exactly that which you are programmed to feel.
Last week, my team was laid off… and it threw my brains into an overdrive for a couple of minutes… millions of questions popped up… demanded that I better know the answers. I knew that I would need to council them almost immediately how to deal with the CIRCUMSTANCE and not make it an identity. It was essential to create an atmosphere of “whatever happens, happens for the best” and ensure that this does not become the FULLSTOP to possibly bigger dreams coming true for them. When the letters were handed over, they took it without letting the “OH I AM SO SORRY” speech before the letter get to them, they spoke like it was a comma, a pause in their professional lives, that would only open windows of opportunity, possibly where their talents and learning from this organization could prove to be… totally relevant to their new profiles. In action, was the remote control, their remote controls had been programmed to accept the challenge and channel their energies to achieving greater heights in their professional lives.
And now my TO DO list is exhausted… this needed to find the form of this note… to be shared… I cannot explain how much this piece was aching to be written… every hour brought a new thought… and every new thought asked… WHY IT HAD NOT BEEN written … and I said… “hmmm, I am a little too busy worrying” and the inner voice says, “just as much for others… this piece is meant for you… worrying will only take aware prerequisite of being positive…”
Here’s the lesson I must learn… says the inner voice
“To live a full life… we need to change the remote programming… Attach yourself to happiness, be present in the moment, enjoy every feeling that comes with happiness… you will set up magnetizing more of it… DETACH yourself when it comes to sadness… be the observer… you do not need to identify or get sucked in by the dark emotions looming around such conversations.”