Do You Feel It? (Repost)

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Don't judge your feelings. Each time an emotion surfaces, this is a sure sign that you are working through it in order to release it. ~Iyanla Vanzant 

Girlfriends,
I love this quote because it helped me understand that when I am feeling out of sorts, it is ok.

I use to get very down often on myself because I feel like some situations I just need to get over, and being sad should not be an option. While I know that I should "get over" and not live in my emotions, it is okay to feel them too. How does one balance this? I believe the first step is to not beat ourselves up for being sad. Whatever, the lost may be, it's valid, and important to you. I'm still learning, as a Scorpio woman it is always a constant battle to overcome your feelings. God gave us emotions, so apparently they're not bad things. 

**God, my God, I yelled for help and you put me together. God, you pulled me out of the grave, gave me another chance at life when I was down-and-out. (Psalm 30:2, 3 MSG)** 
 
It is all about that redirecting your mind, you have to get into the habit of switching your thoughts. I can't stress spending time with God enough. Look around your environment, clean house, smell good candles, good music. I'm big in Feng Shui...setting up a healthy environment. Doing all this does not mean you will instantly feel better, but sitting around sad is not going to help either. Emotions can be overwhelming, I think a lot of people need to know, its okay, not to be okay.  Every situation is different, and how we react is different as well. The one thing that still gets under my skin is someone telling me how I should feel, or better yet, telling ME how they feel, and I should fall in line with that. Absolutely not! 
We all have emotions, how we managed them is the key to being healthy. I spent way too much time reacting to how I was feeling. I called it an emotional disorder, and I'm not even sure if that is a real issue nevertheless that is the way I felt. This was so traumatic for me that living in my emotions cost me everything, short of losing my mental all together. I had to hit an emotional dead end before I realized, God I need help. The first thing that begin to happen was I realize an unhappy pattern. Realization was critical for me. From there, I begin to seek God earnestly in this area. I would be a liar if I said that I did not struggle still in this field. 
This may not be an issue for many but for me it was real, and that is why I wrote this blog. I try always to follow the Holy Spirt instructions. I was going to write about something else, and this became a topic. I know I am not alone with those feelings.  God revealed to me through Joyce Meyers that I had to be very careful not to entertain every single thought that came to my mind, because thoughts and feelings do not dictate truth to us. I was depressed and down and out because I had not come to terms and took responsibility for some truths about myself. We must face the truth and take responsibility for our actions. When we do that and ask God to help us, the spirit of heaviness leaves us, and we feel light and free (Joyce Meyer).

PRAISE JEHOVAH for this truth. Again, this is just my story. 

I’m not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so wondrously reached out for me. Friends, don’t get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I’ve got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward—to Jesus. I’m off and running, and I’m not turning back. (Philippians 3:12-14 MSG)”  

 When I began to allow the Holy Spirit to come in a clean me out, I had an AH HA!! moment, which by the way I LOVE those. 
It was clear...   My purpose, passion, and excitement. My mentors are writers. Inspirational messages and readings helped me shape my life, as a little girl I read books and gained knowledge through them since I was five years old. I excelled in English and literature in school, in college I wrote perfect papers with great imagination. My struggles and how I tell my story with no filter to those who struggle with the same setbacks have inspired many and I did not do it for fame, I want to help. I want people to know that just because you are written off from family and friends that doesn't make you hopeless, worthless, or incapable of a healthy life. As we speak I am going through a tough time, but I know God is preparing me for the next level, and some purging is needed. I have some rough edges that must be smoothed out, and I get it. And guess what? I will always be working to that next level…Creating my legacy here on earth. But what we must not do is allow emotion, and people to make us feel horrid. My life, your life is not carried out to seek the approval of others. Stop trying. Dust yourself off and keep moving. If you live for the approval of others, surely you will die by their rejection. You can't let the devil win, he has already lost, and you only lose by forfeit. This life is hard, but the Holy Spirt equips us. FIGHT for your life God promised he would help, and you have to believe that. 
Girlfriends, please don't wither away in emotion. If you just go through the process, trust God, it will be all worth it when you make it to the other side. I often compare it to walking through a literal storm, as you go thru it the rain, hail winds are knocking you around, and it hurts. You feel like if I can just take cover under this shelter until the storm passes then quick relief. Girlfriends, you got to walk through that storm, understand it’s uncomfortable, but you’re walking towards the sunshine, and rainbows...and how beautiful!

xoxo, Vita