Thinking and Feeling for Yourself is an Act of Positivity
Too many people seem to prefer not thinking or feeling for themselves these days.
It never ceases to amaze me how easily people let others think and feel for them. It’s as if the idea of thinking for yourself is inappropriate, challenging, and not at all worthwhile. If that’s not the case, then how else can you explain the idea of “woke” – as in awake and aware – being a bad thing?
The problem with this is that nobody can actually think or feel for anyone else. Sure, you can be influential, persuasive, suggestive, coercive, even forceful – but you aren’t in anyone else’s head, heart, or soul. Nor can you be. You can’t think or feel for anyone else, and nobody can think or feel for you.
When you actively do your own thinking and feeling, it’s empowering. Empowerment is always positive. However, positivity – nontoxic, real positivity – isn’t a perfect existence absent of negativity.
Genuine positivity exists side-by-side with negativity. They are the yin to one another’s yang. Each exists because that’s the nature of the universe. It is a place of both positivity and negativity.
When you are choosing and deciding for yourself, you take the power that is yours and employ it for your benefit. This is not selfish. It can go a long way towards the greater good. But you can only impact the collective consciousness when you start with your own.
Become self-aware
Self-awareness is not some holier-than-thou cure-all hooky-spooky ideal. It’s knowing the one and only person you can ever really, truly, fully know: You. Since you alone are in your head, heart, and soul, you yourself can know what makes you feel good, feel bad, or feel nothing.
Every single human being has thoughts, feelings, intentions, approaches, and takes actions. Some are more deliberate and intentional than others. When you are making your own choices and decisions, this usually begins by recognizing and then acknowledging what and how you’re thinking and feeling.
Being woke is a good thing because it’s not merely about social justice or equality as much as it is recognizing that you aren’t alone in this world. It doesn’t matter your sexual preference or lack thereof, your gender identity, religion, social class, or any other artifice of division we have – YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
One of the worst ways that people are disempowered is by leaders creating division, derision, and gulfs between us that are utterly not real. When all is said and done, with very few exceptions, everyone desires kindness, compassion, empathy, caring, and understanding. You want someone to see you. Maybe not in a public spotlight way, but in recognizing that YOU are.
Becoming self-aware is the first step in this. It’s not always a treat, nor is it basking in permanent joy, but it is always empowering.
Thinking and feeling for yourself
Nobody but you can know what you’re thinking and what and how you’re feeling. They can guess, but they’re not with you. They don’t see from your inner mindset/headspace/psyche self. Nor can they.
Everything that you are, all that you do, begins with thought. How humans think is what sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. It’s why we can not only adapt to any environment, but mold and shape it to our liking.
What’s more, the complexity of our thinking can change what and how we’re feeling. Have you ever had thoughts that were happy but felt an underlying dread? Ever feel good but find your thoughts are running counter to what and how you’re feeling? That’s a perfectly normal part of the human experience.
When you choose to let your subconscious do the driving, that generally leads to discontent, dissatisfaction, and discomfort. Why? Because you cede your power and pass the wheel to the ethers or the influence/sway of others.
Nobody teaches you the value of thinking and feeling for yourself. Worse, because our society doesn’t give full value to psychology or mental health, artificial complications spring up everywhere. But when you are doing your own thinking and feeling, that’s an act of positivity. Why? Because it’s empowering.
Empowerment is the key
Too much of the narrative in the collective consciousness is about disempowerment. The idea of influencers, leaders who take away self-sovereignty and autonomy, and other forces that want you and me to be pliable and disempowered.
When you pause, reflect, and recognize what you’re thinking and feeling, you find yourself in the here and now. In the present, you’re whole, because the present is the only time that’s really, truly, real. When present, you can recognize your thoughts and feelings.
That, however, isn’t enough. You must also acknowledge what you’re thinking and feeling. You can recognize you’re thinking negatively and feeling awful – then turn away and do nothing to change that. Or, you can also acknowledge what you’re thinking and feeling, then make a choice or decision to stay with that or change/alter it.
You’re empowered to choose your own adventure. When you don’t recognize and acknowledge what you’re thinking and what and how you’re feeling, you aren’t empowering yourself. Then you set yourself up to be disillusioned, distressed, and uncertain.
Is empowerment a cure-all? No, but it’s the key to conscious reality creation and making choices and decisions for yourself and who, what, where, how, and why you are. That’s pretty worthwhile, don’t you think?
Becoming empowered by thinking and feeling for yourself isn’t hard
It’s all about practicing active conscious awareness (mindfulness) of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and the positivity or negativity of your approach to direct your actions.
When you recognize and acknowledge that you are the only one in your head, heart, and soul, you open the door to using thinking and feeling for yourself to live life on your terms. Knowing that only you can comprehend what you’re thinking and what and how you’re feeling, you can use this to take control of your life experience and be, do, and have more satisfaction and control.
This empowers you, and your empowerment can empower others around you.
Consciously choosing your approach to life towards positivity or negativity — from the vast cylinder that exists between them — shifts life in a way that opens greater dialogue. From that dialogue, you can recognize, explore, and share where you are between the extremes and how that impacts you here and now.
Choosing thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions for yourself opens the way for a positive approach and attitude via your actions. This can lead to realizing amazing potential and possibilities for your life.
The better aware you are of yourself, here and now, the better you can choose and decide what, how, and why your life experiences will be. When you empower yourself, it can spread to those around you and empower them as well. That is an amazing conduit to help reason to overcome fear in the collective consciousness.
Thank you for coming along on this journey.
This is the six-hundred-nineteenth (619) entry of my Positivity series. I hope that these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, reblog, and spread the positivity.
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