Strangely (or maybe not), it seems that if I allow my internal reaction to something, it leads to peace with the very thing itself. That doesn’t necessarily mean I endorse or agree with it, but that I live my life without spending effort and focus on internal rejection, even if I outwardly (and ironically) have to reject the very thing I’ve made peace with.
Musings
Comments
19 responses to “Musings”
-
We need to ‘process’ things that happen to us. During that, we’ll have a range of different feelings. Once processed, it’s part of our ‘background’. It won’t be ‘triggering’ us again unless similar conditions arise. So yeah, we can wish a thing undone, but when we’ve processed it, we know it can’t be reversed, and we move on. If we’re caught in PTSD, it’s because we can’t – yet – process the event. One of the more complex cases (I think) is when someone we love ‘requires’ us to support them in something that is, for us, unsupportable. Eventually, we do so out of love – because we support that person, whatever they do. But still, we don’t wish to do it ourselves. Best wishes, Kent.
-
Your post reminds me of the Gary John Bishop principle in UnF@ck Yourself “Expect nothing and accept everything”. Thanks for the reminder to be at peace with what is.
-
-
-
I completely agree. Case in point, Last Tuesday’s election results that I promised a loyal reader I wouldn’t delve into was less than desirable. Why the majority made that decision, I’ll never completely know or understand, but I’m okay now with it knowing somehow, someway it will work itself out for the betterment of all.
-
This is true! And it is a way of removing stress, and anxiety. It is an acknowledgment of those feelings and an observation of why that response came about. The thing is not to hold on to it. Acknowledge it, understand it and let it go. Then peace follows. I like the way you have written this, it has made me thinker deeper on the matter.
Kent Wayne 
Leave a reply to T. W. Dittmer Cancel reply