How is my mood today ?

When I woke up , I pick a magazine lying on my table and turn the first page. These words catches my eye:
 " Everything depends on my mood or maybe my mood depends on everything". These few simple words carry  a very strong meaning. It amplify whether you are happy or not. Your re-action to others and to yourself depends on your mood while your mood against depends on many factors which could be external or internal. Everything is wired up.

I have written an article about the recipe of our emotions. Like recipe for food. If we make a dish and if we add different portion of spice, salt , sugar or milk ,etc , the outcome could be sweeter, hotter or more creamy. The outcome varies with each alteration of the components we put into dish. Just like our emotions. If we sleep well. we will feel more balance and if we do not enough sleep, we would be agitated or emotional.  Our mood depends on so many factors and any shift in one of the factors , the outcome would be vary a little or very much.

The factors affecting our mood is sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch. These five elements are the recipe for happiness or anger.  If we control these elements properly, we can control the outcome. In Buddhism, we use our mind to control all these elements. We have to be aware and acknowledge the cause and effect of these elements and we choose not to re-act to it. However, it is very difficult because of our past mental conditioning which have install a quick response system or mental habits.  If we break the routine or choose to take the opposite action, it will break the habit and review our truth self or self awareness.  If we are successful, we return our self to our true and original self.

All of us chase after happiness and we avoid unhappiness. If you acknowledge and accept this truth, we will grow in confidence in handle our self and others. This understanding is the basis of universal love and feelings. We have to understand this wisdom and this will work for all of us.

Namaste.