No 29: It’s an Inside Job

Today I want to talk a bit about moods albeit not in the usual way.

Recently, I learned that we experience life not from the outside but from the inside. 

It’s an inside job.

I was both shocked and surprised (or SAS as I like to call it) to hear this but now that it has settled, it makes a lot of sense. 

And I love that. 

I also learned that we see things differently at any given moment and that what we see depends on how we’re feeling at the time – as in, our mood.

I love that, too.

Let me show you what I mean:

When I am in a bad mood and my husband leaves a cup in the sink, I get cross and think he’s lazy.  But when I am in a good mood, and my husband leaves a cup in the sink, I simply pick it up and put it away.

The same cup.

The same husband.

Just a different me. 

How cool is that?

And I love that it’s an inside job.

And that I know to look at me.

And when we realise how this whole thing works, it can help to set us free.

The end.

J x

(shared from my old diaries)

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