There is something wonderful about the morning after a good soaking rain. Of course, the air is fresher and seemingly cleaner, but there is something purging about a rainstorm, like Mother Earth is having a good cry. She has a lot to cry about these days. Weather, in general, feels like the varied moods of emotions.
The modern world so often disregards our connection with the natural world. Emotions, too, are often regarded as a female weakness. Emotions; however, are another means by which our bodies try to speak to us. Pain is the body’s way of letting us know there is a physical problem. Emotions reveal to us the state of our mental health. Strong emotions are there to remind us that it is time to check in with our higher self, to see where we need to correct our thinking and sometimes our behavior.
Happiness, harmony, and peace are our natural states. When we are not feeling content, we need to discover the cause, if we do not already know what it is. When we are truly honest with ourselves, we realize that it is our thoughts about the events in our lives that upset us. Our judgements about a thing feed the discontent, which creates negative emotions. Thoughts continue to feed the emotions, which give way to more bleak thoughts, continuing infinitely, until we make the decision to put our attention somewhere else. It is in changing the direction of our thoughts to something pleasant that the negative thoughts lose their power. It is like shining a light into a dark room.
I sometimes wonder if it is our collective consciousness that helps to create the weather we experience in a given area. Some of the people who live where the weather is hostile, are hostile themselves; whereas people who live in more pleasant climates are often easy going and laid back. This of course, is a huge generalization, but something to ponder. We can dwell on the huge problems that our planet is facing, or we can be uplifted by the many good things that people are doing world wide to address some of the challenges. It is the same feeling we have when the sun shines brightly after a purging rain storm.
