Overcoming Mood Swings

At each moment of the day, we have the capability to feel something. Our
feelings vary throughout the course of the day. Sometimes they are joyful
and sometimes they are painful. What we forget to do is to choose our
feelings consciously.  Instead, many of us have become lazy and allowed our
feelings to be dictated and shaped by people and circumstances.   In other
words, we have become influenced.   *Our swinging, changing moods are the
result of the inner karma of becoming attached to things, people, ideas and
circumstances.*  If we are attached to a person and suddenly he/she leaves
us we will feel gloomy and our mood of sadness will drain our energy just
when we need to remain optimistic and enthusiastic about the future. Any
form of loss will bring about a mood of sadness. If this sadness lasts for a
long period of time, it will gradually turn into depression.

*When we think we are consider the world around us to be our source of
happiness and joy, our moods will fluctuate, *even with the changing weather
*. * *But when we are spiritually empowered or strong our happiness and joy
come from inside. * We are stable in the face of praise or insult, loss or
gain.  We are no longer moody and stability becomes our basic nature. We are
in control of our life, our feelings. And while we cannot control the waves
of the ocean of life around us, we can control and choose how we will
respond to outer events and people.  When we do that, we will be able to
choose what we feel, regardless of what may happen in our life.   Life stops
being a rollercoaster and becomes more of a cruise, less a storm and more a
gentle breeze.