FEEL YOUR EMOTIONS BEFORE EMOTING

Howard McQueen (C) 2011

Choose to be with the truest emotion alive within you.

There is no need to manufacture any reaction to that emotion.

Awaken from the endless sleep-walking dream of reactive disempowerment.

Stay with whatever is real in this framed moment.

Allow the moment to play itself out,

and you will find, within yourself,

the seed from which to be at peace.

We have so little control over what life brings toward us.

There is so much to harvest,

so much to transmute and ferment into a finer wine,

readied to be shared in friendship and harmony.

May we each connect to the courage to encourage,

rather than to judge.

It is through example that we will begin to dis-empower the wheel of suffering.