Feelings, feelings, feelings! Does your entire life seem to be run by the way you feel? Sometimes you feel great, other times terrible, and most of the time, you feel just all right.
When you feel great "on top of the world," doesn't it feel like you can achieve anything? When you feel down, depressed, or negative, don't you feel like nothing is worth the effort, and even if it were, you would probably fail anyway?
As I've said, most of the time, you will find yourself somewhere in the middle, just muddling through life day by day.
But what could you accomplish if you could control your emotional state and evoke any emotion you wanted?
To develop this skill, you must first realize what an emotion is. Emotions are not monsters or masters of your state. They are feelings that you create from your own perceptions. You evoke emotions based on internal and external circumstances that are usually based on your past experiences.
When you experience a feeling, it is an emotion that has been triggered by your thoughts, and these thoughts, in turn, have been triggered by your memories.
These memories can be either pleasant or painful depending on how you processed the situation when it initially occurred. When confronted with a similar situation or event in the present, your brain replays these memories at a conscious, or usually unconscious, level and feeds back to you the emotion associated with it.
We give our emotions and feelings many different names, like joy, pleasure, happiness, fear, pain, frustration, and anger, but there are really only two emotions: one that feels good and the other that feels bad.
I'm sure you know the effects of feeling good and bad. You know that when you undertake a task and feel good about it, you are much more likely to succeed than if you feel bad about it. In fact, if your feelings are very bad, you will probably not even attempt the undertaking at all! Fear takes over!
What if you could feel good in situations where you felt bad before? What would that mean for you and your life?
Your emotional responses reside in your subconscious mind. It controls them and is responsible for feeding you feelings at a conscious level. This is why it can be hard or almost impossible for you to consciously create emotions. You can't just tell yourself to be happy and suddenly be filled with joy. In fact, the opposite usually occurs as your subconscious mind reinforces the initial emotion and thoughts with more of the same!
So how do YOU combat this?
Well since your emotional responses reside in your subconscious mind, it stands to reason that if you want to change them you need to gain access to your subconscious and reprogram it - just like a computer!
So how do YOU do this?
Thankfully, there is a way, and it's much easier than you think. It is, of course, called hypnosis. Through the use of hypnosis or self-hypnosis, you can easily and quickly gain access to the subconscious mind.
"Ok, that all sounds great," you may say, "Give me the deets, Sis!"
Well, a skillful hypnotist, whether in person or on a recording, can very quickly 'anchor' new feelings to old memories. She can guide you to take a memory that has some very bad emotional responses connected to it and neutralize those emotions. Then she will guide your subconscious mind to re-connect your old memory with new positive emotions.
This can also involve the use of the tools of NLP (neurolinguistic programming, which can also be used effectively without hypnosis). The positive effects of these techniques leave you free from old memories that block you from moving forward in your life and also reprogram your mind to feel optimistic and hopeful when confronted with similar situations in the present and future.
The emotional response to any situation, circumstance, person, or event can be reversed to whatever positive emotional response you want. Such is the power of hypnosis and the creativity of your mind. You will merely learn to react in a different, more positive way, and through modern mental techniques, you can learn to do it in any way you desire.
So, there is really no excuse to suffer at the hands of your negative emotions anymore. You can reprogram your mind to feel any way you want. Check it out; you may just like it!