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I am not doing well with it this morning, actually. I have an ongoing rage against religious/institutionalized misogyny, and I mean RAGE. I tend to make other liberals really angry with me for being "intolerant", but I simply cannot tolerate it without saying something! But I do still have to reside in the world with it.
The best I have found for this problem is to keep doing what I did this morning, meditate and visualize letting go of it, or in this case putting it in a box where I will store it away like Christmas decorations in July. I also pray to not obsess on things I absolutely cannot control. I can't control most of this world around me, so I pray and meditate to be able to focus on what is in front of me. I have also looked for positive things I could actually do before and it has helped, like writing my elected officials about something even if I doubt it will do any good. At least I have then done what I can do. I have also donated small amounts of money to various causes as "something I could do"; and have felt relief from that. Immediate relief came after a small donation to a charity that works on a world problem that completely pissed me off last winter. It was amazing, the minute I hit the submit button for the donation I felt a weight lift off me.
I have a terrible time with some subjects, and then I feel bad about myself for being spiritually unfit, which immediately translates into feeling bad about myself (a really bad character defect for me). I keep trying to realize that my energy is being wasted on things I cannot control, I am just flailing around when maybe I could be doing something positive, even if it just being nice to the next person I see or giving someone else a shoulder to cry on.
Thank you for the topic, responding to it is helping me. :hi:
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