Jonathots Daily Blog
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The eyes pop open and the feet are heading toward the floor—it’s the beginning of another day. Right there, in this pivoting moment, you get the message.
A feeling sweeps over your body, informing you where you are and threatening to control your whole living space.
Stop rushing.
With your still feet on the floor, ask yourself a question—out loud, if you’re alone:
How do I feel?
Don’t be surprised if the answer comes back, “Shitty.” Or maybe, “Great.” It could be, “I’m not sure.”
Unfortunately, many people believe it is wrong to run your life by how you feel.
Since educational systems are very similar for all of us, our religions don’t differ that much and our politics bluster controversy but don’t render anything unique, what ends up setting us apart are feelings.
Please do not think you can control your existence through “mind over matter.”
You aren’t a goddamn Ninja and you certainly don’t have a sword.
The best and the worst you’ve got are your emotions. Therefore, speak the question, “How do I feel?” Make it your morning drill.
Then, when you get the answer, ask a second question:
Why do I feel this way?
Sometimes it’s because you watched a scary movie before you went to bed, or you have to pay a bill or take a test. Or maybe you spent your nighttime hours eating like a four-year-old in a candy store.
You will be surprised that the physical, psychological and even spiritual can often hijack your feelings. Identify the reasons.
This is what I refer to as a S.O.D.—a sense of dread.
Something is going to come up that you don’t want to come up and you’re frightened about how it’s going to come down.
It won’t be resolved by a good breakfast. You can’t get the shower hot enough. Playing music in the background has limited possibilities.
Make note:
You aren’t living a life—you are learning to masterfully maneuver your emotions.
And by maneuver, I mean find them, identify their source and open yourself up to other people. Yes, never be afraid, when you emerge from your room in the morning, and someone asks you how you feel, to speak the truth out loud.
“Physically I’m pretty good, mentally I’m a little scattered and for some reason I’m a little nervous.”
This statement is for your benefit–because we gain power and healing as human beings when we confess who we are openly.
So let’s review:
First question: How do I feel?
Second question: Why do I feel this way?
Confession: Based upon what I know thus far, these are my beginning sensations today.
Candidly, if you try to ignore your starting feeling, you will fail the day. On the other hand, if you identify the feeling, you will receive a much greater sense of well-being. Once you know how you really feel, have figured out the source of it, and you’ve confessed it out loud—either to yourself or someone else—then you’re ready for the door.
Sometimes it’s a door in, and sometimes a door out.
But many of us ruin our morning, still bleary-eyed and uncertain. We’re not maneuvering our emotions, and we miss the door. But if you know how you feel and you’ve identified where it came from and you’ve confessed your profile, then you’ll see the door in or the door out.
It’s probably one of the most exciting things—and one of the most unexplainable happenings in our lives.
A way is made for us if we are ready to see the door.
Then, once you see the it and you have yourself primed, enter the door. Change, adapt, include, evolve. When you do these things, you find yourself in greater unity with the world around you instead of going into situations kicking and screaming, blaming others and eventually laying it at the doorstep of God.
So find the door in or out, then change—happy that you’ve alerted yourself. And finally you end the day grateful.
There is a much better chance that you will wake up the next morning feeling better if you end your day grateful.
It’s not luck. It’s not chaos. And by the way, God does not have a wonderful plan for your life.
This is your space and your doing. If you want to do it with power, begin each day with, “How do I feel and why do I feel that way?”
Then confess, look for the door in or out, change, and move toward the solution.
And finish it off by giving a big chuckle in gratitude.
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