Emotional Turmoil is Optional.

We all find ourselves emotionally triggered, in a disempowered state of being, riling ourselves up with the potency of our negative emotions. Regardless of the source of our emotional charge, regardless of how it expresses itself — we often find ourselves very much consumed by these negative patterns and cycles — patterns and cycles that not only take up all our energy, but keep us in a forever loop of stuck…

There’s good news, however.

Emotional turmoil is optional.

That’s right. Emotional turmoil is optional. Emotional turmoil is ultimately a choice — and when we say “choice,” we don’t mean that the stressful, undeserved, and undesired circumstance was your choice. We certainly would never (consciously, at least) choose pain or suffering.

When we say “choice,” what we really mean is that our identification WITH our suffering or the issue at hand, is a choice we make.

We DO have a choice, it turns out: a choice to let go of that identity, a choice to move into our wisdom state, a choice to access our higher, expanded self, and gleam from the issue what we must assume responsibility and culpability for. We do have a choice to put our efforts instead into moving forward and away from that struggle — to shift from fear to love.