Your discipline feels more or less accessible depending on the day or the situation. But that is just how it feels, not how it is.
Your discipline is accessible at any time, no matter how you feel. An emotion cannot prevent discipline. It can only send a conflicting or distracting signal.
How you feel is an internal force. Discipline is also an internal force. When discipline feels difficult or inaccessible, it’s because:
- The emotional signal conflicts with paths of discipline.
- The emotional signal is stronger than your discipline.
- The emotional signal is loud and drowns out your voice of discipline.
The essential thing to understand is that the presence of a loud, strong, conflicting feeling does not make discipline inaccessible. It simply means a competing voice wants to be the deciding force.
Both forces are always there within you — your emotions and your discipline. When they compete or conflict, you can either align them or pick one as the deciding force. Those are the only options. If you don’t align them, which you can’t always do, you will make one of them the deciding force, by active choice or passive acceptance.
Your emotions cannot prevent your discipline. Only you can prevent your discipline by following the signal from your feelings when it conflicts with the path of discipline.
You can’t always control how you feel, but you can always activate your discipline.
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