Iffy moods

Slowly slowly it creeps up on you
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One day it is there another gone
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At the back of your mind you are unconsciously alert for it
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It?
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The feeling of all not being well
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I call it an iffy feeling
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Whatever you call it the feeling is the same
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Just negative
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Down
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Not anything easy to put a finger on.
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Nothing much has changed in your life.
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Just your own perception of it.
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Feeling useless
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No meaning to life.
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Everything is useless.
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And once you let yourself slide into it then it is tough to come back out again
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We have been here many times before in these blogs
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Today I want to share that this is the fight of your life.
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If you allow iffy days to grab you and hold you then tough times lie ahead.
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For many this is where they let go.
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Depression is not far behind for them.
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A lifetime of it perhaps.
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Others drink do drugs, sex, buy yet more things.
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All are attempted avoidance of iffy feelings.
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For most of us iffy days come and go.
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Unwanted but powerful enough to spoil our days and often our lives.
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So some thoughts about the way out.
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Our many lives are to teach us lessons.
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So iffy feelings are one of these lessons.
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Accept that we all get them not just you, all of us.
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Second it is possible to push them back.
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To do so requires several understandings.
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The first is that the world is beautiful, despite man's best efforts to destroy it.
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Man may well destroy it for a while however over the period of our many lives nature will prevail.
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Our world will survive.
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This understanding that nature is far more powerful than man is useful as it gives us a way to identify with it as our home.
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Our own home because we are a part of nature.
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Nature is our home, and yes it is beautiful.
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Next we can focus on how we relate to our home, nature.
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Do you even understand that you are a part of it and not just some sort of spectator?
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Being a part of something means involvement with it.
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Decide to improve your life by finding the good in it whatever your circumstances.
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Appreciate what you have.
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Not what you do not have.
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Choose to be the best you can in everything you do.
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Fight your iffy moods as soon as you feel one coming on, get busy with something demanding your full attention.
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Something where you must totally concentrate so the iffy mood cannot sustain it's attack on you.
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Look at your fears because they offer the iffy moods a way in by getting you focussed on everything bad in your life.
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Removing, addressing your fears removes the iffy mood 'support base'.
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It reduces areas where you are vulnerable.
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Understand clearly that iffy feelings have power over you to the degree that you let them.
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And no they do not go away or leave you until you fight them.
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Iffy moods are with you for life if you do nothing.
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This is why we say it is a fight for your life.
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The kind of life you might prefer to have without iffy moods that is.