You do not have to be as emotional as you are. I am not talking about how much you express your emotions or not express. Whether you keep your emotions to yourself or not, you have them. You have an abundance of them. Love, which is beyond emotion, uplifts your life. Anything but love pulls you down a notch or two. You know what it is to feel weak with emotion. Anything that is not love is less, you understand. Bear in mind that I do not speak of love as an emotion. Love is its own thing and beyond categorization.
All the emotions you experience in one day disrupt your happiness. You would be happy without them. You would be happy if you were not shocked, disappointed, upset, disillusioned and so forth. Even if you did not get so thrilled and excited and stayed on a more even keel, life would be smoother. If only you would not be shaken by whatever wind blows. If only you would not. If only you would keep the peace of love to you and the awareness that whatever transpires, it is all right, even when, in your terms, it isn't. There is a myriad of things that you consider inappropriate, wrong, unbearable, and so forth.
Someone stomped on your flowers. Someone pulled out what they thought were weeds, and they were your favorite flowers, and you are bereft. It can't be right that this happened, and you may be right about that. Nevertheless, you have to skip right along and not let downward thoughts drag you down. Your garden was stomped on, but must your heart be too? Must you then stomp on your heart, beleaguer it, taunt and torment it?
Whatever it is that happens does not have to pull you down. No matter how serious a matter it is to you, you have to find a way within yourself to let go of it. Have a shorter memory, beloveds, when it comes to matters that disrupt your joy in life. Even the very serious matters have to evaporate, as they surely will.
There is so much in the world that you see as dreadful. You may take losing your purse as seriously as you would take losing a limb. You can find many occurrences a day to keep you away from your rightful happiness. The numbers of little and big hurts a day are monumental. We must do something about this.
It sometimes feels to you that you have no skin to protect you. You sometimes feel you have no bone structure to hold you up. Please stop seeing yourself as a weakling when it comes to what you see as assaults on your life. Your life is yours. It is not for someone else to pick at. Your life does not have to be at the mercy of events around it. It must not be, or you are wounded time and time again. Do you see how you wound yourself?
You are not an emotional weakling. You are a strong Being. You would not have survived this far unless you were strong. There is just too big a time lapse between an event and your recovery from it. You know you will recover. You always have. You are not so vulnerable as you think, only you are slow to rise above. Let's speed up your recovery.
Announce to yourself: "I am strong in life. I am not so blown about as I once was. Every little pin prick does not have to pierce my skin. Whatever occurs, I allow myself to feel the sting for only a moment, and then I find something else to focus on. When I am at a loss as to what to think of, then I will then think of God. Awareness of God and awareness of baser thoughts cannot sustain themselves at the same time. It can't be done, and I can't afford it. I will look upwards to God. I cannot be so foolish as to keep looking downward at what causes me pain. Well, of course, I have been so foolish, and now I choose to be God-driven instead of event-driven. I dismiss all my debilitating emotions now. I am done with them. I say to them, 'Begone!' And then I move on down the road."