POWER OVER YOUR MOOD

 Your feeling is something that you are confronted with everyday. Sometimes you feel good and sometimes for no reasonable explanation you wake up one morning feeling grumpy and you go through the day with that ill tempered feeling, leaving everybody to wonder why you carry along the way you do. Sometimes we call it waking up on the wrong side of the bed. If you find out you woke up on the wrong side of the bed, you can easily correct that.  Go back to bed and wake up on the right side.

Your feeling is subject to your decision. There is no one who has power over your feeling like you do. Don’t allow anything decide your mood negatively. No matter what went wrong decide to remain in the best of mood. Sometimes it is not easy to maintain your cool when things went awry. You would want to scream your head off or fly off the handle in extreme cases. And most of the time we tell ourselves that we just couldn’t help it. But the truth is this, you can help it. You can be a master over your emotion.

You are meant to control your emotion and not the other way round. One thing I have discovered about foul mood is that it fouls everything around you.

Your feeling can take so much from you and it can also add so much to your life. Negative emotions take away from you while positive feeling energizes you. You will accomplish much when you are on a high plane of enthusiasm than when you are in the valley of sadness. What you lose in a split seconds of negative display of emotion is usually enormous. It will take a longer time to restore it and in extreme cases the damage would be permanent. Take for instance, in one moment of anger you could do something that you will regret for the rest of your life. The Sacred Book of Wisdom Opine, “Be angry, but don’t allow your anger lead you to sin.”

Bitterness, hatred, depression are all negative emotions that are harmful when you indulge in them.No wonder the greatest book of Wisdom says not to allow the root of bitterness spring up lest many be defiled. And it takes much to indulge in negative feelings than in positive emotions. In my own opinion it takes less to love than to hate. It takes less to forgive than to live in bitterness. It takes less to be happy than to be depressed and sad. It takes so much energy to frown than to put a smile on your face. So it is wisdom to go for what takes less yet highly productive than to go for what takes much but destructive.

You must make a decision to determine your mood. Don’t allow circumstances decide them for you. And this begins in the morning when you wake up. The psalmist puts it this way in the Ancient Book of Wisdom, "This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad..." Don’t allow the fact that you were hurt by someone keep you in perpetual gloom. No one is worth having such power over your life. You will have to make a choice to feel right and good in spite of the hurt. It is your right to feel good. Even though you have no inclination to feel good, just feel good anyway. Don’t allow anyone or anything take that away from you. You are the master of your own emotion.

Fred Egba