ABORIGINAL TRUTH - MATURE EMOTIONALLY

4. Mature Emotionally

We each express all the emotional feelings, including anger,
frustration, depression, hopelessness, guilt, greed, sadness, and
worry, as well as joy, happiness, hope, peace, love, and so forth. As
you mature and gain insight into what it is to be human, the goal is
to grow, to discipline and select your emotions. As someone famous
once said, "you are as happy as you will let yourself be."

Relationships and incidents are circles. They start, continue, and
stop at some point. If you mature emotionally, there is no difficulty
with closing each circle, leaving no frayed edges, no negative
feelings.

It is hoped that you experienced being angry as a child, early in
life. You can determine how it feels physically to have your body
filled with rage compared to how it feels to use understanding,
flexibility, and inner peace. The only way your soul has to connect
to your brain awareness, is through feeling. If your back hurts, for
instance, you should ask why. What does it represent? What can you do
to change it? What can you learn? Then take care of what needs to be
done physically to correct your body, but don't overlook the thought
process and spiritual lessons.

There is also the place of honoring your emotions, especially joy and
grief. To suppress either of these can cause physical health
challenges to emerge.

One of the most important emotions for the health of any individual
and for the health of our planet is the use of laughter. As a human,
you are given the awareness, the gift of humor and the ability to
express it. Through laughter and lightheartedness, the body can
remain healthy, and health challenges can be corrected. Humor is a
problem suppressor; it adds strength to relationships and brings joy
to others. The things we consider humorous and laugh at are to be
analyzed closely. The challenge is to avoid being destructive in any
manner. Humor is so important to your well-being, do not close your
eyes for the night's rest unless you have experienced some laughter
or joy during the day. If you haven't, get out of the bed and find
something to be happy about.

Clowns are special people, found in every culture. There is a clown
in each of us and an appropriate time in our life to expose that
aspect of ourselves. We never grow too old to enjoy ourselves as
clowns.

But truthfulness is the key. You can't seek the truth about who you
are, why you are here, and how you are doing unless you speak only
the truth.

 Always.