Keeping Your Power

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KEEP YOUR POWER

It is by choice that we let others control our emotions and when we make that choice we have abdicated our personal responsibility for growth. Deciding to feel how we truly want to feel rather than giving someone else control is freeing, exhilarating and nourishing. When we let someone else anger us, we have decided to make them the object of our attention, and any intention to do what needs to be done is gone.

Anger consumes us and with it we become pre-occupied and the growth and contribution we were created for comes to a standstill. Our personal power to think creatively and to take action, are lost when we choose anger instead. For this way, the object of anger decides who we are.

ELIZABETH KENNY expressed, "He who angers you conquers you."

Samuel Thadeus Short – Antestian Newsletter

Really needed this today. Found it on an old website that use to be on MSN. Today before I left for work I received the new medication my doctor prescribed for my neuropathy. I never looked at it because it arrived just as I was leaving.

When I got home I found it was an anti-depressant, something I have no use for. Even though I got through bouts of it, I have always refused to take it. Want does a depressant have to do with my feet and circulation.

I made the decision to calm down and go down to the library to take back my books that were due today. By the time I got home both the pharmacy and the doctor's office was closed.

This medication puts on major weight which is a no no anyway. My niece was on this many years ago and it caused major nerve damage in her neck. This precription was the first of five my doctor tried me on for my fibromyalgia.

I found myself to be very angry and asking myself why my doctor did this. So I have had to relax, come to a place of peace with in myself and made the decision I will not take it and he will have to prescribe something else. It is a substitution of what he wanted to prescribe originally. Heaven only know what that was, but there is no way I am willing to allow this mood altering drug into my body. When I tried it before, it felt like someone had a giant sized hand on top of my head, preventing me from being me. It was like I was a puppet and a robot with no inner connection to myself.

[majestyjo]

A good reminder and affirmation of my meditation this morning. Ironically, my doctor is still trying to give me anti-depressants to deal with my Fibromyalgia and Neuropathy and they continue to be mind-altering for me and I now refuse to take them five years later. Save us both the bother of trying to find a solution in a pill. For some things they are needed, I need them for my diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol, tremon disorder, etc.

If something doesn't work, more doesn't make it better. I learned that a long time ago, I just didn't listen.

If you continue to give up your power, you become drained. You have nothing left for yourself. The other person becomes full of them self and think they know wants best for you and them. They don't live in your body, even if it is your doctor. I had to change doctors twice. Don't let people in the program play doctor with your life.