“Don’t think. Don’t get lost in your thoughts. Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the moon. That moon is your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.” – Rumi

How is your relationship with your emotional body? Are you in charge of your emotions or are they running the show in your everyday life? Take time to assess where you are in terms of being disciplined emotionally. Emotional discipline does not equate to being unconnected or cold to your reality, but rather being in a state of knowing when to engage and when to sit back and let life happen around you, without you injecting your own attachments and agendas. Knowing the dance between when to speak and when to listen or when to passively let chaos fill in around you, and then choosing not to add to that chaos. Try holding space for another who is emotionally struggling and if that person is you, then practice loving-kindness towards yourself and the situation. You are enough and you have everything you need.

Where do you hold your emotions in your physical body? Do a body scan and energetically tap into those spaces of dis-ease where there is holding on to uncleared emotion and send those negative emotions love and compassion. Then simply let them go and wash the slate clean so you can make room for peace to live in your heart and throughout your individual temple. Daily meditation is a great way to practice emotional discipline and mindfulness. Getting quiet can really illuminate those parts of us that want to live in peace. Emotionally stabilize. Practice patience with yourself and others. Free your mind.