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Our feelings at work are as important as our feelings in any other area of our life. Feelings are feelings - and wherever we incur them, dealing with them is what helps us move forward and grow. Not acknowledging our feelings is what keeps us stuck and gives us stomachaches, headaches, and heartburn.

Yes, it can be a challenge to deal with feelings on the job. Sometimes, things can appear useless. One of our favorite tricks to avoid dealing with feelings is telling ourselves its useless.

We want to give careful consideration to how we deal with our feelings on our job. It may be appropriate to take our intense feelings to someone not connected to our workplace and sort through them in a safe way.

Once we've experienced the intensity of the feelings, we can figure out what we need to do to take care of ourselves on the job.
Sometimes, as in any area of our life, feelings are to be felt and accepted. Sometimes, they are pointing to a problem in us, or a problem we need to resolve with someone else.

Sometimes, our feelings are helping to point us in a direction. Sometimes, they're connected to a message, or a fear: Ill never be successful... Ill never get what I want... Im not good enough...

Sometimes, the solution is a spiritual approach or remedy. Remember, whenever we bring a spiritual approach to any area of our life, we get the benefit. We wont know what the lesson is until we summon the courage to stand still and deal with our feelings.

Today, I will consider my feelings at work as important as my feelings at home or anywhere else. I will find an appropriate way to deal with them.

Melody Beattie ©


To lay down our lives sometimes means that we are to surrender the littleness of who we think we are in order to be the greatness God created us to be.

Mary Manin Morrissey


The important part of acceptance is to accept or notice without judgment,
criticism, blame, or anger. We seem to have a tendency to attach emotions to
our observations, as in, My house is dirty, I'm such a slob or I just can't
seem to keep this house clean. It's overwhelming. These statements are
charged with judgment and criticism. Acceptance on the other hand simply
says, The house is dirty. The next step then becomes simply another step in
the observation process, asking what I can do about it -- and then doing it
without having beaten myself up about it.

Marie T. Russell


Once you're a solid and strong individual, the next highest step is to surrender it all. What is truly ours can't be taken away. Surrender to love doesn't weaken us but strengthens us. Intimacy doesn't build a bridge to another person, but rather eradicates the illusion that there ever was a gap. Intimacy is a higher power, for it is the joining of two souls, and there God is. That is why intimacy is sacred and why it is such an important and significant task.

Marianne Williamson


"Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth."

Sarah Ban Breathnach


"We are beings that were destined to know great movement or motion. Our
energy was meant to be transformed into experiences. If you have not yet
chosen to use the energy of life, and the energy of the universe, to
reform and reshape your world, you are in a state of stagnation."

Jack Boland


We must strive to do anything that can make the impossible and miraculous
possible. A whole realm of good things opens up for us if we adhere to this
way of thinking. Life is made for aspiration and for manifesting the
impossible.

Ajahn Sumano Bhikkhu and Emily Popp


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Calm your mind. Let it go. Get quiet. You don't have to know the plan. Just put out the question, then listen to your inner voice. It will guide you through any maze you've been lost in.

Melody Beattie


"The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or touched. They must be felt with the heart."

Helen Keller


"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues."

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