Your Emotional Compass

Everything you want, you
want because you believe it will make you FEEL
happy! ~ M

(If you have been reading this blog, I am sure you know that this past month has been terrible for me…my dad got confined to the ICU and eventually passed away on June 25, 2013.  My two kids got hospitalized for dengue fever mid-June, with my youngest, Adrian, having to celebrate his eighth birthday in the hospital.  Needless to say, most of the time I think I was in the Z (zombie) mode.  I went through the motions, prayed hard, wished for the best, barely even had time to laugh…I wish I can say I am so over everything, but I can’t, because it is not true.  I am learning to “Play after the storm”, though and it is awfully hard, but I am getting by.  One of the books that got me through my”storm” is Morgan McKean’s “Becoming Princess Charming”.  I am sharing with you here a guest post from, yes, Morgan herself with her thoughts on emotions and feelings!)

Have
you ever found yourself in a really happy place, I mean the kind of space where
you felt on top of the world and that anything was possible… or, felt so sad
and low that all you could see was dark skies ahead?  While our emotions can take us through an
up-and-down roller coaster of feelings on any given day, the one thing that’s
consistent, is that we always have them.

So,
if emotions and or feelings are a part of who we are, at least to some degree,
you would think that we would automatically know what they’re for, and how to
work them. However, if you’re like many of people I know and work with, while
you probably have some idea of their purpose…. on the whole, not really.

So,
what are emotions, and why do we even have them?

Whether
guiding us towards making simple day-to-day choices or influencing us on which
path we take in life, our thoughts have a direct effect on how we create and
experience our physical reality.  For
example, if you wanted to become an interior designer, then it’s not likely
that you would engage in thoughts and ideas that would lead you towards
accounting school, but rather, you would be focused on those thoughts, ideas,
and opportunities, like taking art classes, that would support you in your
ability to become an interior designer. 

The
reason it’s important for you to first understand how your thoughts effect your
life experience is because it is your thoughts that influence your emotions, or
how you feel.  You see, similar to a
compass that lets us know when we are, or are not, on course with our desired
destination, our feelings serve as an internal feedback system letting us know
whether or not the thoughts we’re thinking are leading us in the direction of
our desired experiences.

When
we feel off-balanced, stressed, overwhelmed, or anxious, that’s our emotional
compass letting us know that the thoughts we are thinking are not on course
with the reality we want to experience. Accordingly, when we do feel happy,
joyful, contentment, or bliss, this is our compass letting us know that the
thoughts we’re thinking are on track with our desired reality, and that we
should continue along this particular thought stream.

While
it’s tempting for us to only want to experience feelings love, success, and
happiness, because they make us feel good, every emotion or feeling that we
experience is meant to let us know the direction that our thoughts are leading
us in. When the thoughts we think are on track with our desires, our emotional
compass provides us with an array of positive feelings, which helps support our
belief that we can create our life the way we want it to be.  However, when our thoughts are leading us
towards an experience we don’t want, we will receive a plethora of negative
feelings that make us feel afraid or unworthy of manifesting our dreams.
Therefore, whenever we feel anything less than happiness, that’s our cue to
check into our thought stream to see what kind of ideas we’re
entertaining.  When we do this, we are
better able to identify limiting ideas and beliefs that we need to release, so
that we can refocus our thoughts and ideas on creating our life the way we want
it to be.

Feeling
less than happiness while creating your current experiences?

Try
the following to recalibrate your emotional compass ::

•    Still
your body and quiet your mind

•    Close
your eyes and take deep breaths (Count 5 on the inhale and match it on the
exhale)

•    Remind
yourself that you are the author of your story, and you have the power to
create it the way you want it to be.

May
your happily ever after be as fabulous as your dreams!

With
love,
Morgan

Author of
Becoming Princess Charming :: Creating
the Magical Mindset for Your Happily Ever After,  Morgan McKean is also an intuitive healer,
spiritual mentor, and sassy self-help guide, who specializes in working with
women to expand their consciousness, so that they can create their lives the
way they want them to be.

This
article is based on the new book Becoming
Princess Charming © 2013 by
Morgan McKean, and is being published with her permission.
http://www.MorganMcKean.com

To read a
free book excerpt of Becoming Princess
Charming, go here! 


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