Vertigo: Power Over Emotional Energy
“The camera is much more than a recording apparatus; it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.” - Orson Welles
This image is part of a triptych. It's my first one. What's a triptych, you may ask? Well, historically, it denoted a type of art composed of three related pieces, usually wood panel paintings which were hinged together such that they could fold or be allowed to stand upright on their own. The middle panel was usually the largest, although today that's not necessarily the case. Nowadays, a triptych can mean anything composed of three parts, but in my case, it's three images that are related to each other and that together tell an interesting story. Here, then is image number one of my first triptych, as I shared in my post from January 15, 2022...
Have you ever felt like you were emotionally falling? That everything happening in your life was just too much? More often than we might admit, many of us have that uncomfortable sensation, the immobilizing anxiety we know we should overcome but sometimes can’t. Maybe even now you’re feeling it? I want to assure you that there’s a way through.
Fighting anxiety is a quest for happiness. And unless you need professional care for clinical depression and anxiety, the power to choose happiness is yours to wield. The key is to understand where you’re using your emotional energy.
When you spend too much of your time on things beyond your control, you use up a lot of your emotional energy. You feel drained, anxious, and tight in the chest. Frankly, you allow yourself to be unhappy. But when you, the noble person of great intrinsic worth that you are, realize the truth that you control only what you think, say, and do, you regain your power. Power over your emotional energy. And with that power comes happiness.
Happiness doesn’t depend upon anything besides you because you no longer need concern yourself about other people’s choices or what the weather is or how busy the traffic is on your commute. Those are things you don’t control so they don’t deserve much emotional energy. Focus primarily on you, your work, and the way you react to events. You do have dominion over that, your inalienable power to choose your response.
Banish the unsteadiness of being adrift emotionally, worried about things over which you have no control. Conquer yourself and use your emotional energy and intellect only on that which you control. What you think. What you say. What you do. And be happy.
Peace to you, my friends. And be well, in all ways. If you or someone you know needs professional mental health care advice, visit www.mentalhealth.gov.
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‘Vertigo,’ the peculiar feeling I had on this otherwise lovely sunset evening on the sandy eastern shore of Rehoboth Bay.
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