Are You Feeling Grumpy?

Today’s message is all about feeling grumpy and why “negative emotions” can be a good thing!

“It’s ok to feel grumpy.”

How often, when we’re on a personal development path, do we give ourselves a hard time for feeling grumpy, angry, fed up or any other negative emotion?

Are you feeling grumpy?

We beat ourselves up and the scary “should” (or “shouldn’t”) word often takes over inside.

Yet resisting emotions is pointless. They’re just an indicator of whether things are in alignment or not.

Trying to pretend the “bad” ones don’t exist is like trying to make it stop raining. Futile and pointless.

Instead, how about acknowledging the emotion – not diving into the drama – but accepting it and using it as the signpost / early warning sign that it truly is.

If you’re feeling cross and fed up, it means that something is out of kilter and you either need to make changes or make yourself heard.

That’s all.

In that way, “negative” emotions could actually be a good thing.

What do you think?

How about sharing via the comments box below?

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Comments

Claire says:

September 22, 2010 at 14:03

I feel passionate about this topic, as someone who used to beat herself up for “being unspiritual”!! What I have come to believe is that “what we resist persists” and that, if I want to live in the light, it’s essential that I embrace the dark. The dark in me especially. I am human, and I have ‘negative’ thoughts. I don’t have to feed them, but I can choose to acknowledge them as a natural part of me that I don’t need to be scared of. And if I can be accepting of my own negativity, it allows me to be more accepting of the negativity I encounter in others. It’s just another part of the humanity I share with everyone else. And like you say, and as Debbie Ford would point out too, there will be a positive side to what I have labelled ‘negativity’. Maybe it’s an early warning sign that I need to take action somewhere – that I need to stop and take stock of what’s going on.

And of course, if it’s specifically anger / intolerance of another person, that’s a GREAT prompt to get me to look at what it is about this person that reminds me of something about me that I don’t want to face. It would be a waste to ignore the signpost, in that case!