The thing to remember is that it is YOUR mind. That implies several things. One, that you are not your thoughts. Most people identify with their body and their thoughts and their emotions but these aren't you. You are the point of awareness, the consciousness experiencing these things. Secondly, that you can control them. It takes practice but you can control your thoughts by applying your will. Emotions shouldn't try to be controlled directly, they follow thoughts. Change your thoughts you change your feelings. It doesn't happen instantly usually, but eventually they will change. When your feelings change your body responds. It was the chemical reactions in the body brought about from the emotions caused by the previous thoughts that made the emotions linger. Once the body responds to the new emotions those will be the one's that linger and the whole process gets easier but it all starts with changing your thoughts through applying your will which can only happen when you realize you are not any of these things but that they are tools that the real you can use.
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Awesome comment! Thank you... You're right, we're all just like sponges for information and for emotions and things to happen, but it all starts with our thoughts. I've been doing a lot of self-reflection things to really look at myself and my life as something that I can change. My hope is that we can break the cycle that people are on - help people to become more, and help people be able to truly look outwardly in life and be able to find themselves as most people don't look inwardly at themselves at all - or that they have any power to change their circumstances at all. I for one am a firm believer in that we can change our lives, and that people can change. It's what people are all up against though that makes people stop dreaming or doing what they first wanted to do. I hope that we can become more human then we are and have been turning into robots with accepting the world as cruddy as it is sometimes. I know that with the positive things that we're doing and writing on here even that we can affect our whole world. Together is the key that people missed. And, without that together or wholeness - people lose sight of family and friends, and even some of the people that we thought we were to people fade. It's sad - but in that frustration I've found that there are more people willing to do this sort of thing then not - it's just not popular anymore to think or to learn. I wish it were, but people are highly a problem, because we're all a part of this world and what the world is doing is highly unsophisticated. Even, I think, it's highly wrong. I don't like the ways the world is treating people, and I hate how people have become so mundane in their ways, and don't have any fight in them for the things that are right. I'm sick of seeing people left and right - who have given up in some fashion or another. I don't think people should have been forced to give up the ways that some have. It's quite sad, but through all this struggle I hope that we can all come together somewhere in life, if not for one great thing, one good thing - even just a mediocre thing. I still wonder if that's ever possible. Somehow I fear that people are too bought and too forced out of their own hearts. There is still good in there - but, it's up to us to show people that good again, and show people what they've been missing. I hope one day we will, and that day will be awesome as it is in my dreams. I really like your comment here - it helps. Thanks!
Glad you got something helpful out of it... That was my intention.