Today’s meditation (Successful Emotions) centers on the role our emotions play in supporting our success. Nothing is more intimate to us than our emotions. The current feelings that underlie all of our thoughts and physical sensations have a major influence on every choice we make.
Even after careful, rational analysis, we tend to make our final decisions based on what feels right to us. For that reason, it is vital that we heal and train our emotions to be reliable and trusted allies. We want our emotions to support our success.
Emotions like anger, depression, and anxiety can undermine our success, but the answer is not in repressing emotions. Emotions need to move and settle into calmer patterns so that they can reliably support our success with insight, energy, and joy.
Day 6 – “Successful Emotions“
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them.” ~ Oscar Wilde
OUR CENTERING THOUGHT:
“My emotions are my most intimate ally”
OUR SANSKRIT MANTRA:
“Om Shanti Om”
I invoke peace
Happy Meditate
Journal Questions
To help make your emotions a better ally in your success, you must become better acquainted with your feelings. Ask yourself, “How do I feel?” and write down in your journal a few words that describe your emotions.
Now note how your body feels in relation to those emotions. Do the positive emotions feel more open, expansive, and light in your body? Do the negative emotions make your muscles, breathing, and posture feel more contracted, tight, and tense? Write down the feelings you experience.
Sit comfortably and notice one of the uncomfortable emotions within. Perhaps it’s a persistent worry you have about your mother’s health or a difficult relationship with a coworker. Notice where that worry is held or felt in your body, then begin to take slow, deep breaths from your diaphragm. Dialogue with your emotional self and say, “We can manage this worry and start to feel better.” As you continue to breathe, see your body relax in your mind’s eye and release the worry it is holding. Write down your experience of how the release process went, and how you felt afterward.
Reflect further on today’s experience.
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