
We all have a place we live, a place we call home.
When one asks where one lives, they often refer to a specific location, country, city, town, or neighborhood.
Today I pose the question that you may look at it in a different light.
I want to know where you reside internally?
Where do you set up your home?
Your Neighborhood (Residence)
“when it comes to emotions, we are designed to feel and experience them all. The only difference is where you live and where you visit?” – Peter Sage (The Inside Track)
We reside in the emotional state where we spend the most time.
So, where do you reside?
Does your listing reflect the truth?
Listing Your Residence
A real estate listing indicates the location and value of a home.
And as an individual, your external (actions/behavior) is like a real-estate listing.
What the world sees is a walking advertisement of where you live mentally.
So knowing where you live is important. Because If your permanent way of thinking is pessimistic, pessimism is your home address. That is the state others will find you in most of the time. You may be able to fool yourself but you will be unable to fool others. Your speech and action will give away your residence.
Visitation vs. Residence
Although we spend most of our time at our residence, from time to time, we leave. We visit other places. We even have lengthy vacations.
The difference is, those who visit always go back to their residences.
So the emotional states they visit or vacation to never determine their total identity/
One positive thought does not make one an optimist.
However, a pessimist is not excluded from having moments of optimism. But the optimist will rise from the pessimistic state and return to where they live.
However;
“If you live in stress and ocassionally visit joy, that’s a very different life to say, living in peace and ocassionally visiting fear.” (Sage 15)
So, I ask, where do you reside?
What is your permanent mental residence?
Because understanding is a powerful beginning for shaping your life into the life you want.
Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. –Vincent van Gogh
How Does This Help?
One can’t know how to change unless one recognizes what needs to be changed.
The Importance of Self-examination
So I Implore you today to take inventory. Look at the state you most find yourself in.
- Are you unhappy a lot?
- Do you want to be happier or more content?
Then you must reframe your experiences. You must choose to spend more time on the positive side of life.
Residing on The Bright Side (Changing Your Residence)
If one looks closer, one will always find at least one positive in a situation.
So the thing to do is to make that one positive bigger than the negatives.
Make it so big it overshadows the negative.
Make that the forefront of your focus.
You will find the more you commit to this the more positive you become. You will find yourself residing on the bright side.
Of course, it’s not as easy as relocating from your physical address. But the transformation is worth it.
When your inner world begins to shift, so does your outer world.








