Everyone has an emotional state of mind that they live in. Their “emotional home”. While emotions change due to life’s circumstances, one will always subconsciously find the path back home. Angry people will get angry, sad people will be sad, and so forth.
Think about it, how is it a person can have everything yet still be unhappy, or a person have nothing yet be happy no matter what life gives? The complexity of emotional responses is fundamentally simple. We create our emotional home and choose where we live. This is not to say that hard times and situations do not challenge everyone. The difference is in the meaning given to these times by the individuals.
As we age and develop our sense of being, we create standards and values. External influence and our internal response to these influences are the foundations we will live by. This begins at a very young age and becomes so deeply rooted that responses become learned and automatic. For example, how is it that a small rope tied to a stake in the ground can hold an adult elephant? When the elephant was a baby it was tied up. It would fight and struggle to get free, but it isn’t strong enough. It became conditioned to the fact that it couldn’t get free. As an adult, it could easily pull that stake out of the ground and be on its way, but because of learned response, its standard is that it’s stuck.
Massive change takes massive actions and is seemingly impossible. The first step is accepting that we are in control and are capable of amazing things. If your emotional home isn’t where you want to live, move out! Need help packing, ask for help. There are no limits when we realize our potential is limitless.
The Wandering-Mind 