Are your emotions like a deck of playing cards that you go through, perhaps several times a day? Do you perhaps spread out the cards and pick one, and then another?
Are your emotions like a scale you run up and down?
Do you perhaps feel that you are obligated to touch upon each card?
How many emotions do you go through in one day?
If you left out the keys of every emotion, you would not become a robot. You would become a calm human being who would greet everyone and everything before you as new and fresh. You would look squarely at that which is before you with simple clear eyes. There would be no build-up of plaque. There would be no errors to erase. There would be no miscounting, all this simply because you didn't, on cue, react with one or more of the handy emotions you have kept in your pocket.
You would be left with love, beloveds. Love is more than an emotion. Love is not meant to be only a reaction. It is more than a reaction. Let it be the platform you come from.
This is the point: You don't have to run the gamut of emotions you have been running any longer. Give up anger, discontent, hostility, offense, negativity, complaint, hurt, elitism, regret, agony, anxiety, fear, discouragement, dismay, despair, upset, horror, argument, greed, pouting, heartache, shock and whatever else you can run through in a day and whatever form it may take.
Substitute joy, delight, surprise, welcome, smile, eagerness, friendliness, good nature, cheerfulness, good-heartedness, affection, serenity, peace, generosity, ardor, zeal, and whatever form a positive emotion can take.
Cook up a new way of cooking events in your life.
If you have become a naysayer, become a cheerleader. Why not?
Perhaps you think that you must be so honest that you have to have your mouth turned down and be grumpy each day. Or you think you have to be jumpy and react to every single thing that happens as if it were important and your duty to reflect it. Since when were you meant to be a faithful copycat of emotions presented to you?
You are not all the trappings you find yourself in. You are not the clothes you are wearing. You can step out of them any time you choose. You can step out of past moods the same. Change into something else. Why keep shades of unhappiness around you? Why hold onto anything that does not uplift the world?
Be a bearer of light and not darkness. You are not obligated to point out every flaw or any flaw. You don't have to point out even one!
If you have been a repetitive bearer of bad news, turn over a new leaf now. There are beautiful leaves to find. There are many new leaves to turn. Turn them. Turn over a new leaf right now. Keep turning leaves over.
This is the meaning of baptism, beloveds. Come out washed from the Ocean anew. Sweep out to sea, and return cleansed of the past. All the holdovers from the past are gone. You let go of them in the waters of the Ocean. You let them loose. You let them be washed away, and you came out of the waters of the Ocean bright and fresh and sparkling clean. You baptized yourself.
Have the simple intention to be brightness on Earth. Have the simple intention to be light and to spread it. Have the simple intention to step out of the past, and then step out of it.