Thursday, January 3, 2013

Musings in early January

The weather is early January west coast , and Spring is in its glory seems a long way off. The holidays are over, many of us are thinking about going back to work, more are dreaming of finding somewhere warm and cosy and safe. The weather outside is frightful, the fire is so delightful as the singer croons in the background.  We have had a variety of weather rain, snow, cold the last month or so. Sort of like the human psyche, where one minute we may feel warm and cosy about ourselves, and the next minute feel cold about who we are.

Our moods can shift like the wind and bring sparkling sunshne or cold clouds of gloom. Why does this happen? Like the weather, which depends on Fronts that move through the areas of land it crosses, our moods depend on how our beliefs move through our lives.

Can we control the weather? No, of course not.  But we can very definitely control how our beliefs affect our moods. It is a matter of  becoming aware of the cold, storm or warm fronts, or mood shifts coming over us. We have to become aware of when our mood shift happens.

Somthing caused the shift in mood. To ignore this 'something' is to keep yourself from discovering why the mood occurred. We can only make corrections in things that go on in our lives, when we know what caused the situation to occur.

So in the middle of the darkest time of the year, can we use the time to focus on understanding our own mood shifts, so even if we cannot control the weather, we can control our own moods and keep control in 2013.

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