If you could manage moments of family upset with calm, would you? Do you value the practice of compassionate thoughts, words, feelings? If so, will you choose right now to accepting more peace?
Answering these questions may bring our awareness to understand the truth of our human nature: choice. Choice is our ongoing experience. We are choice as it happens. There is no escape. We choose—to move, eat, speak, walk, read, play, sleep—constantly, choice after choice after choice.
Are you willing to become the choice, right now and just for now, to release the habit of being anger? If you do prioritize peace and calm for managing family upset now, while you’re reading this, you are practicing that choice and making it an experience your body and mind record for future reference.
If we do make this choice for peaceful thoughts and feelings, once we make it, by paying close attention we can notice our next thought choice and whether it is peaceful. Our thought arises with feeling. Aware of peace as our choosing, we are anger less. Once we make that choice we continue to participate in choosing, because we are choosing.
For now please join me in a commitment to being anger-less. This does not mean life without anger. We are all able to choose life with less anger…….anger-less. You might repeat this phrase to guide your way during the day to avoid anger as well as to help anger become quiet:
I choose now to be anger-less.
Next:
I choose not to be angry with my family.
How do we do that? By affirming. Emotions are seeds in all of us, and we are the gardeners of the emotions we plant, nurture, and harvest. Consider, please, your body is a garden, a plot where each of us yields what we have planted and grown, and we turn to the question of what to grow and harvest in our emotional garden.
Standing here looking over your garden, packets of seeds in your hands, right now do you prefer to grow fear, anger or peace?
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This post was originally published on TheFatherhoodConnection.wordpress.com and is republished on Medium.
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