“Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” ~Pema Chödrön
We have much more choice about what we allow to control us than we think we do. Learning how to take back that control is a huge step toward peace and toward a better life. Give it a try!
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“Allow beauty to shatter you regularly. The loveliest people are the ones who have been burnt and broken and torn at the seams yet still send their open hearts into the world to mend with love again, and again, and again. You must allow yourself to feel your life while you’re in it.” ~Victoria Frederickson
It’s so easy and so tempting to shut down, close ourselves off, and stop feeling our emotions, but we miss so much when we do. Stay open to life. Let beauty shatter you. And keep your heart open through it all to love the world around you.
“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.” ~Brené Brown
It’s so tempting to try to numb those emotions we don’t enjoy, but that numbing doesn’t make them go away. It just numbs all of the positive emotions along with it.
How much better it is to learn to feel them all and learn from them what we can!
“Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance.” ~Deepak Chopra
We naturally resist those emotions that we find to be unpleasant in any way, but our resistance makes them linger. Embracing even those emotions we do not enjoy and entering fully into experiencing them allows them to tell us what they need to say and move through us. The quickest way out is always through.