Dealing with "stinking thinking" and moods #4
If we truly realized and internalized that our emotions are 100% coming from our thinking, that there is 100% correlation between our thinking and our feelings, there would be many positive implications and ramifications.
One other major ramification is that we would be less moved and less reactive to events in our world that are not to our liking.
We often react in different ways to the same external events in or lives - depending on our state of mind at the time and our quality of thinking.
Can you think of situations in your life that recur and you react differently at different times?
Look for simple things like getting cut-off by a car on the highway. Did it happen to you once and you got irritated, and exactly the same thing happened a different day and you were not bothered at all? Or when your child doesn't listen to you, do you always react the same way?
Where are your feelings coming from? From external events and circumstances, or from your thinking?
We should be more suspicious of ourselves when we get caught up and blame external circumstances and people for the way we feel. This suspicion can actually be a very freeing and lightening experience.