The question, are you controlling your emotions literally means, are you using your emotions to your greatest advantage? Or are your emotions dragging you along for a very uncomfortable ride.

Your emotions have one function, and one function only; that is to give you feedback on your perception of a situation. That feedback is information that you can then use to make a choice that will move you forward.

But far too often we get stuck in our emotions and wind up in an emotional whorl pool that keeps us being sucked into an abyss.  This is when your emotions are controlling you.  Your emotions will keep flooding your conscious mind with feelings pertaining to a situation back in time when XYZ happened to you.  It’s important to note that your emotions are doing what they have been created to do, and that is to get your undivided attention, creating space for you to make a choice to do something different.

Attractioners, emotions simply tell you whether you like something or you don’t.  They also let you know that ‘that something’ needs to be addressed by you, and for you, so you can find peace of mind etc.

Emotions are VERY necessary in our lives and play a huge role in the understanding and growth of self.  However, emotions are not the best choice making tool in our spiritual tool kit. Have you ever made an emotionally based choice, which ultimately turned out to be the wrong choice.  Because when a clearer head prevailed, the viewfinder lens looked at the situation totally differently than when you were emotionally charged.

Always use your emotional outpouring for what it is intended for, and that is to provide you with accurate information on how you are feeling about a certain situation.  And that you need to do something different.  Your emotional outpouring doesn’t tell you what to do, it only tells you what you are feeling in that moment.  And within that feeling, whether happy or sad, is found the solution or answer to moving forward.

Never forget, you can’t control your emotions, but you can control how you respond to them. 

Blessings,

Dr. Wendy Dearborne