Feeling Better

One of the results of being on a spiritual path or recovery is that you begin to "feel better."  I don't mean that you always feel good, because that is fantasy land.  What I mean is that you begin to feel your feelings better with the know how of what to do with them.  For instance, you might feel anger, rejection, loneliness, and sadness.  You can identify the feeling, and know how to respond to it.  With anger or rejection you will not necessarily strike back, an eye for an eye, which you have found in past behavior, only made you and matters worse.  You realize that you don't always have the emotional stuff to endure certain responses, so you don't go there.  You let some things simply go.  You learn how to ask the right question of another who might be going through their own stuff at the moment.  You become a better listener.  And you listen better to yourself, your best self.  And you will feel better more often even amid tough times.