Dealing with powerful emotions can be challenging – particularly when worried over their outcome or appearance. We want to do the right thing, always. Though, to what benefit? Are we reacting to the source of our pain, hoping to reduce or eliminate. Or, are we opening our heart to understand their context and meaning?

We often restrict our choice to the immediate benefit – that which may eliminate versus what which may encourage. Though, ultimately our choices are limitless – we may choose to act on visceral, ‘larger than life’s emotions. Or, we may choose to stay the course hopeful that the end may soon define the means – with nothing left out, and no one to blame.

Author Jack Kornfield writes, that the essence of the teachings is to return to a freedom of heart that is impervious to external circumstances…to turn away from the distraction and into awareness. “When we realize that the source of disharmony and misery is ignorance and blindness,” he shares, “we open the door of wisdom and compassion.”

In the end, we can either be bound by our choices or we can choose to be enriched.

In peace, my sweet friends…

Namaste ❣