EcoTrain QOTW: Do Emotions Dictate Our Lives, or Our Lives Dictate Our Emotions?

When we smile, the world smiles with us, and when we frown the world concurs. This weeks Question of the week is of course another deep one, and is a great opportunity to know thy self better, and perhaps empower yourself to make YOUR world a better place.

Do our emotions dictate our lives or do our lives dictate our emotions? Discuss.

This will not be a discussion, this will be an attempt to correct people's perceptions of how the world works, so that they can see what is happening themselves.

Modern materialistic science has people believing that the universe is a machine. A cold, uncaring, machine. That B follows A. You pull lever 1 and you get a cookie. You pull lever 2 and you get doused with water.
That the cause is always in the past and the effect is always in the future.

And, it is shades of this thinking that make the semi-spiritualists ask this question.

The answer is, its soup.
Do the carrots and celery make it soup, or does the chicken? Maybe its the water?
They are all soup.

The future paints the present on the backdrop of the past.

You are, right now, focussing on a future.

It is this future where all our emotions come from.

And our emotions are telling us how in alignment or out of alignment we are with that future.

So, do our emotions dictate our life? NO.
Does our life dictate our emotions? NO.

Emotions are a guidance system.

Our emotions are telling us if we are going the correct way or not.
If we wish to change our emotions, we can do two things, change who we are being now, or change our future goals.

There is no physical reality when we are considering this question. What we think of as our physical world is as a projection on a screen. What matters is our vibration; what we are being right now is attracting things toward us.

If we are being a depressed person, depressing things are heading towards us.
If we are being a happy person, then joyful things are heading towards us.

These are not our emotions. These are our states of being. Our vibration. Our resonance.

What are you attracting?

Now, what confuses people, especially in the west, is about changing what we are attracting. They think that changing your smile to a frown will change what you are attracting.

This is similar to grabbing the hands on a clock to try to change the time.

You have to change who you are being. Unfortunately this involves changing habits. Even worse, it usually involves healing old wounds. Digging deep down in your psyche and pulling up childhood horrors.

These pieces are part of the vibration that you are. And if you are here reading this, they are stopping you from attaining the future you want and the joy of this now.

If you want to attract more money into your life, you probably have to do these two things:

1. Heal your relationship with money. Most of us had ingrained into us that "money is the root of all evil". So, better stay away from that stuff.
2. Change your habbits. Stop thinking about and worrying about bills. Start thinking about money coming into your life.

Now, this is one of those easier said than done things.
I wish we could just read "Think and Grow Rich" and we would all change our relationship with money.

However, it is usually an iterative process. You read the book, then you do some soul searching, then you start recognizing the thoughts that keep popping up about lack of money, then you read "Rich Dad / Poor Dad" and...

And that is how it goes for each thing in your life, and thus goes the future you want to attract.

• your future paints the present upon the backdrop of the past.
• your emotions are telling you if you are going the correct way to that future.
• if you wish to change your emotions, you have to change who you are being or change what future you desire.

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