Do I listen to my own advice?

When I decided to start this blog, I knew I would be opening up and letting you in on things I wouldn't normally share. At first I hesitated writing this, but then decided to just go for it. That’s why I’m writing right?

I had something happen to me the other night that came completely out of the blue. Something that brought up the past and deep emotional feelings. I told you I was going to be the lake in my blog earlier this week. I had to remember my own advice of how I want to walk the talk now that I'm writing this to all of you. I don’t want to seem elusive or secretive about what happened, I’m only sharing because I want to talk about the opportunity I had to react differently to it. The details are not important in order to share with you what I learned from it.

This moment gave me the beautiful opportunity to choose a new way of thinking. It's not easy to do but every moment is a choice in how we behave and react. I had the choice to let this totally consume me and take me back to icky past stuff and focus on it and let it get bigger and bigger or I could acknowledge it, let it sit there for a bit while I contemplated what to do and then let it go. I chose to let it go. There were several things I could have done about it that would have kept me in the negative energy of it and would have kept it going longer but I decided against it.

I decided to send blessings to this person, to send them positive, loving energy. They have no idea I did this, but they are obviously in a sad, negative place and don’t have the ability to move beyond that. I'm not going to accept it or give it another moment of my energy. I needed to send them love and blessings with the hope that they find the good in their life and don't feel the need to spread harm any longer.  This felt so different and so inspiring.

It feels so amazing to do this instead! In the past I would have let this take me down, throw me in a tailspin for awhile but not this time. Now I feel so much more love and am so grateful for all the love and blessings I have in my life and for all the loving, positive people I share my life with. This issue is over and done with. There’s no need for it and I have truly grown and learned from it. I’m so glad I chose to react out of love instead of fear. It makes such a difference. I dissolved my salt in the lake instead of a glass and it tasted so much better!

What is that quote? “I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.” Choose to react with love. No it’s not always the easy choice, but I promise it’s worth it!