Meditations on God

Your Mood Your Responsibility
Be mindful of your mood.

Pay attention to how you react to the people and circumstances in your life.

If little things bother you for seemingly no reason, or if you have what feels like justification for being annoyed by small things that occur in your life, know that this is not healthy.

It is highly likely that something else is going on.

You may not be getting enough rest, nutrition, exercise, or even play.

Or you may simply not be addressing some bigger issues in yourself or your life.

Either way, every day occurrences and interactions should not drive you to frustration, annoyance, or anger.

It is not healthy for you or for your relationships, and no one should have to tolerate it.

Do some soul searching and ask yourself what is really going on.

Do your best to address whatever it is one thing at a time, as every change will take time and effort.

When you reach a point where you are content in yourself, your relationships, and your circumstances, you will find that getting upset about small things is the exception not the rule, and that it is a symptom of a bigger problem that needs to be addressed.

Take care of yourself because life is too short to be short-tempered.

Your mood is ultimately your responsibility.
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July 22, 2023

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Allowing Failure
Let people make their own mistakes.

Allow them to learn from their failures.

You do not need to intervene in every situation.

Your advice is not always wanted or even helpful.

Everyone has to learn in their own way and in their own time.

Failure is a powerful teacher.

You cannot save other people from experiencing the pain and growth that will ultimately shape them into becoming who they are meant to be.

Of course you should be helpful wherever and whenever possible, but it is delusional to believe that you can shield others from the suffering that is inevitable from living.

Life is hard; be brave enough to make it less so when you can and wise enough to accept when you cannot.

You are nobody’s savior, but you can be a companion, a friend, or even a guide through this beautiful and tragic existence.
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July 21, 2023

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Valuable Attention
Your attention is valuable.

Do not give it away carelessly.

Once given away, you cannot get it back.

Focus, then, on that which matters most.

You will not regret giving your attention to your dreams, your health, and the people you love.

You will regret, however, giving your attention to distraction when that which matters most needs you.

Life is short.

Your attention is a non-renewable resource.

Be wary of to what and to whom you give it.
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July 20, 2023

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Boundaries For Sensitivity
To be a highly sensitive person is to be emotionally porous.

You feel things more deeply and experience your environment more intensely than others who are not as sensitive.

For this reason, you must be extra careful to not allow yourself to be overly influenced by your surroundings, whether it be your environment or your relationships.

You need to develop healthy boundaries between yourself and the world around you.

Otherwise, you may find yourself lost in a sea of feelings, opinions, and agendas that are not your own or in your best interest.

As a highly sensitive person, without boundaries, your inner life will constantly be at the mercy of others and they may not even know it.

Healthy boundaries keep you on course.

They help you to know where the dividing line is between you and the world around you.

Your goal should not be to shut the world out, for this would go against your very nature as a highly sensitive person, but to protect your sensitivity so that it strengthens and guides you instead of overwhelming and distracting you.
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July 19, 2023

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Choosing To Feel
It is difficult to be emotionally available for others if you are not even emotionally available for yourself.

Ignoring, denying, or repressing your feelings does not make them go away.

Instead, they build up inside you, creating a barrier between yourself and the outside world.

But there are people who need you.

They need you to feel and they need you to feel for them.

They need you to feel for yourself.

You are not obligated to be emotionally available for others, but our lives are often only as deep as our capacity for feeling.

If you choose to feel shallowly, do not be surprised if your experience of life, your relationships with others, and even your relationship with yourself are shallow also.

If you choose to feel deeply, on the other hand, you will at times experience deeper levels of pain, sorrow, and despair, but you will also experience deeper levels of joy, happiness, love, and deeper relationships with yourself and others.
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July 18, 2023

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Your Mood Your Responsibility

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