Feelings, we all have them. Many times we react to them and base our responses, actions, behaviors, thoughts, our demeanor and treatment of others, and ourselves, on how we feel at that moment. As we know, feelings can change at the drop of a hat; merely a breeze blowing from a different direction can alter our emotions.
As we move forward we begin to learn that feelings are not facts. This doesn’t mean that while feeling them those sentiments are not our truth in that moment. It doesn’t mean that we are wrong or bad for feeling how we feel. We are welcome to feel anyway we’d like. It is how we interpret them and realize that what we may feel and perceive isn’t always what the truth is around us. As we continue, we subsequently begin to learn that it’s how we react that makes all the difference in the world to the person or people to whom we are responding.
The key difference here is reacting versus responding. We learn how to respond. We are taught that in our response to others, be it people or situations, our path through life can ease significantly when we grasp and enact this idea.
The staff at this rehab in Los Angeles can guide you to the stepping stones on which to travel in order to reach this goal. We all understand that after years of reacting, immediately adopting a new system of communicating isn’t going to happen overnight. The task-at-hand isn’t a simple one, it is, however, crucial to our survival.