Live for Each Moment

We live each day of our lives with the attitude and mood of our own choosing. Sometimes we blame our feelings on something negative that occurred or something someone said that upset us. We wake in the morning and go about our daily activities based upon the emotions we feel. If you go to work ready to enjoy the day, odds are that is what will happen. If you go to work expecting chaos and hating the feeling of arriving, then you will probably have a miserable day. When you go to work with a positive attitude and greet each problem, however minor with enthusiasm, you are controlling the moments of the day. If you go to work with a negative attitude, expecting everything to go wrong, you are controlling the moments of the day in an opposite manner.

We use our emotions to make the moments of our daily lives as a painter uses colors to create a painting. If you choose to use blue, then serenity will appear. If you choose to use black, then a mood of darkness will appear. You have the power to create the emotion of each moment of your life. The emotions you create not only help or hinder your daily activity, they affect those around you. It is if they are in the painting as well, and are responding to the color you choose with which to create the setting.

This is especially vital in family life. When you return home for the day, how do you greet you family? Do you walk in the door with a cheery hello that provides a positive response from others? Or do you drag yourself in in a sullen mood, perhaps not saying a word, promoting a negative reaction from family members? How you react could control the manner of the rest of the evening. Many family spats and fights have been started by the behavior of the family member who comes home in a bad mood. They are often determined to feed that mood what it wants; more sourness and being mean. Sometimes the simplest things are what lead to a family member becoming distraught, crying, in pain or worse. At times these types of situations have led to accidental death or murder.

Never bring your work home with you. The family member who chooses to leave a bad day at work in the past and dwell on the happiness of seeing the family will have warm and loving feelings to emit to other family members, which helps create harmony. These types of people have learned that what happens during the day need not affect their family life. They will most likely live a happier existence and have less familial problems with which to deal. They carry their emotions from one person to the next. These emotions have a tendency to catch on to the next person and so it continues.

The feelings you portray to someone else are exponential. Something you say or do may change the way that person is feeling. They may carry these feelings on to the next person they see, and it goes on from there. Perhaps you live alone. You come home from a hard day’s work or a rough day at school and you will have a tendency to harbor whatever feelings you have to live and survive in your subconscious. This will lead to mental projections that may last until you change your emotions for better or worse.

Your friends also feed off these emotions and you may unconsciously alter their moods to from giving off the vibrations of your own choosing. You have the power to control the feelings and moods of many people without realizing what you have done.

I say live for each moment with the best attitude you can contribute to that moment. Once the moment is gone, it becomes the past. You can retract a statement you made that you did not mean, but you cannot change the past moment, for it is now history. The future moment awaiting you will become an alteration of the present moment you just lived. If you live for each moment, trying your best to make it a positive vibration concerning those around you, then you have achieved enlightenment. This enlightenment spreads to whomever you come into contact with and perhaps you will change someone’s bad day into a good day. There is no greater power than living your best with every moment of your day. Live for the moment.