Taking responsibility for ourselves

I have just declared to myself to never again take my low energy to interactions with people around me. Let me explain what I mean by this. First of all this is an intention and when I say 'never' I am fully aware that this might be ambitious, but we have to aim high to get somewhere new. So when I am feeling generally off, negative, argumentative, ego tripping, jeaolus, (the list goes on), it is never, and I mean NEVER a good idea to start bringing discussion to others about how we are feeling or what we think we want, unless we are genuinely asking for help with getting out of it.

Now, I am not suggesting that we should suppress it or ignore it. Instead I am suggesting we need to own our negativity. Look at it for a while. Try to be alone at the earliest possible opportunity to reflect, meditate, journal, run, walk, do yoga, anything and everything you need and can do to work through it, transmute it and most importantly release it. As A Course in Miracles suggests 'look at the cross but don't dwell on it'. 'The cross' being our pain (negative emotion), which is nevertheless a part of the human condition.

This taking of responsibility for your state of mind also means making a conscious effort to not react to other people's shit. It's a radical taking of responsibility for our own energy grid and sometimes we need to fake it until it comes naturally. I know, as much as anyone, that in many situations all we want to do is argue back, attack, blame. Don't get me wrong, sometimes the person or people around us might seemingly be in the wrong, but us pointing that out and lowering our energy does not serve anyone. It definitely does not serve yourself.

This is hard but it is the real work, and if we stick to it it's able to deliver us to states of being that we may only dream of. When I say 'low energy' I also mean the ego (small separated self as described in The Course) or the pain body which can be called a number of other things. To be clear, as explained in A Course in Miracles, this is not where we are bad it's where we are wounded. This means that self-compassion is the first and foremost way to approach it, as well as understanding and compassion for others.

Blessed Be.