Winter is such an interesting time. People, especially us here in South Africa, definitely go into hibernation – well most of us do anyway. I think that sun signs find it much more difficult to endure yet another cold winter – I’m a Sagittarian so speak from experience.
In our meditation on Sunday morning, my guide reminded me of something that I felt necessary to share with everyone. Firstly that winter time is a time for us to all work a little on introspection. Wikipedia describes introspection as the examination of one’s own conscious thoughts and feelings. In psychology, the process of introspection relies exclusively on observation of one’s mental state, while in a spiritual context it may refer to the examination of one’s soul.
Definitely sure that my guide meant both. Our mental state is constantly being challenged by the various interactions that we have with people. And the result is that we find ourselves being challenged on a spiritual level as well. When things outside of our control happen to us and we act out of character, our spiritual awareness kicks in and we find ourselves questioning who we are. Or perhaps we feel a certain emotion that kind of goes against our grain, again we question our spiritual selves. And that’s a good thing. We need to be keeping ourselves on our toes so to speak.
However, my guide was also saying that it’s okay to feel negative feelings. How about that? We are all programmed to believe that to feel something in a negative fashion is not right. It’s something that we need to chastise ourselves for and we need to correct straight away. How many of us as moms reprimand our children for showing emotions that aren’t positive and happy. But apparently that’s not a great thing to do either. My guide tells me that it’s okay to feel negative emotions, however, we must not allow ourselves to dwell on them. We need to allow ourselves the opportunity to acknowledge them, see them for what they are and then move through them.
And I thought that’s such good advice. When you’re feeling anything, no matter what it is, allow yourself to acknowledge that’s how you feel, become aware of that feeling and then move through it. In other words, move past it whilst allowing it to just be. I think that very often we don’t allow ourselves to just be and it certainly does create problems for us. And it does so because this is when whatever it is that we are feeling becomes the topic of our internal dialogue that can go on forever.
What we need to remember about our internal dialogue is that many of our actions and decisions are made because of that internal dialogue – once again reminding us that we need to be very aware of what our thoughts are and how we direct them. Of course it’s natural for our actions and decisions to be made as a result of our internal dialogue or of what we perceive our world to be, but being conscious of how we think and how we direct those thoughts is vital to our very wellbeing.
So as we continue to work our way though this winter, let us allow ourselves time for true deep introspection, see where we need to work on ourselves, and make a start as soon as possible. We owe it to ourselves to make ourselves happy and to keep ourselves happy.
Author: Spirit Connection
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