We can change our reality
By changing how we feel about things
We are not stuck in thought patterns
We can change them at any time
Perhaps that may also mean
Changing with whom you spend that time
You don’t have to feel jealous when someone seems to have something you don’t
You don’t have to feel threatened that someone will take your security away
You don’t have to feel angry when others don’t show you the appreciation you feel you deserve
You don’t have to feel unloved or rejected when relationships don’t work out
All of these feelings are a choice
Much of our time is spent
Caught up in our feelings about our feelings
While the world tells us not to feel
Stop being so sensitive
They say
Don’t be such a baby
Suck it up
Get over it
Not allowing us to actually understand what it is we are feeling
That’s why it’s important to stop and listen
What are we actually feeling?
Do we really agree with the way we feel?
Is our life just a pattern of unresolved feelings
We haven’t been allowed to feel?
I’m telling you right now
I want you to understand
Every single feeling you feel
Is totally acceptable, valid and true
Those are your feelings
No one can take them away from you
No one can change them
Except you
You have every right to honor
Your feelings and what they tell you
You absolutely deserve to be around
Other people who accept you
And validate you
And all of your feelings, too
Perhaps the hardest thing we face
When we face our feelings
Is that those we love around us
Aren’t as supportive as we would like or need them to be
So we deny our feelings for them
So we don’t cause them pain
Meanwhile we suffer
We carry their pain
And bury our feelings
A sick feeling game
That’s why I say to you
Honor your feelings
And change your reality
Eventually the people who don’t support you
Will have to go away
We can deny this until our time for the grave
And in at state we became a slave
To the feelings of others
Which may not also be true
For in my experience I have found very few
People who honor their feelings as true
Most of us bury and lie about the truth
It’s the feelings, I say
The ones we deny
Those are the feelings we must listen to