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Did you know that your emotional intelligence is much more universally influential than your rational intelligence? Perhaps you know that in some way. The heart’s magnetic and energetic field is 5000 times stronger than that of your brain. How come that’s important? It is important to realize this since when you want to transform an aspect of your life, you have to do it using the energy that will will it into your life. The truth is, your thoughts DO manifest, but your emotions give the turbo-boost to your creations. And you do not have to actually know every detail of what it is you want to make it come out ‘right’. Keep the details to the Universe. After all, the endless Universe has the broad perspective from which to align all the details of your creation. You’re enhancing the emotional aspect as a turbo-boost so you don’t need to wait an entire lifetime to manifest that which you want. You can get help today from a Law of Attraction Coach to get clear on your intentions and clean out outdated patterns of thinking.

Practice with trying on the energy of the emotion of what your existence will be like when you attain what you desire. Wear the energy. You will see that it feels very blissful, comforting, joyfully easy and even exhilarating. That is what you were meant to be. A new intention, the next desire, a new possibility, a new goal that creates life energy within you and then the wonderful inspiring actions that carry that want into your reality. It is fun. Speed up your results even more by receiving help from a Law of Attraction Life Coach and start creating your life faster than you ever thought possible!

Scientists have discovered in the laboratory that a person’s energy field carries the power to change the nature of atoms. We’re actively spawning electrical and magnetic footprints in the form of waves and energy working together and creating impressions on the physical realm.

We can literally shape energy with our thoughts. Thoughts in conjunction with emotion or feeling of what it is like to already have acquired what you are creating in consciousness carries it much faster – because there’s no resistance. You can learn the Law of Attraction Secret right now and live the life you’ve always wanted!

The next time you do a plan or have a goal-setting practice, attempt to activate your feeling of the goal achieved and let the energy that creates worlds be your Achievement Allie.

This is an excellent question! Did you think: “Emotions make us human” or “They help us feel?” These are partly correct. Emotions do define us as humans and we do ‘feel’ when we have emotions. But more precisely, emotions are subjective internal experiences that involve both a ‘mental state’, as well as a ‘physiological state’. By ‘mental state’ we mean the internal cognitive label we use. For example love, excitement, anxiety and anger. By ‘physiological state’ we mean the associated physical sensations or feelings in our body. For example, a racing heart and butterflies in the stomach when we feel anxious or the feeling of heat and pressure building up inside us when we are angry. For an emotion to be experienced, both these ‘states’ need to be present. Thus, we experience anxiety if we have a fear of heights only if there is an accompanying ‘physiological state’, such as a racing heart and shortness of breath. However, if we are exercising and have a racing heart and shortness of breath, we will not label this as anxiety because our ‘mental state’ does not
perceive any danger, but rather knows these physiological changes are a direct result of the exercise.

DESCRIBING EMOTIONS AS BEING PLEASANT OR UNPLEASANT VERSUS GOOD OR BAD

Most people tend to describe emotions as being good or bad. Thus, love, excitement and joy are ‘good’ emotions, whereas anxiety, sadness and anger are ‘bad’ emotions. However, if you are describing some emotions as being ‘bad’, you are likely setting yourself up for even more negative emotions. For example, it is fairly common for some people to feel depressed as well as guilty because they tell themselves, “Why should I feel depressed when I have my health, a good job, I am secure financially and my kids are doing well?” By judging depression as being ‘bad’ (i.e. I should not feel depressed, what is wrong with me?), feelings of guilt are the result. In this example, the individual now feels both depressed and guilty! Well depression is already unpleasant enough and takes effort to overcome, so why judge your feelings and add an additional unpleasant emotion? In order to regain control over your feelings, never judge your emotions! In fact, psychologist would ask you to see all emotions as being good, but either pleasant or unpleasant.

Here is a helpful example: If you are not convinced that emotions are pleasant or unpleasant rather than good or bad, here is a useful analogy using physical pain that might persuade you. If you accidentally touched the element on a hot stove, what you feel? Likely, you said a burning sensation or pain. Now what would you do after you felt the pain? Hopefully you said you would remove your hand to stop the burning and any further serious injury. Now here is the key! Is it good you felt the pain? Yes it is, because it motivated you to remove your hand but the pain is definitely unpleasant. Our emotions should be perceived the same way. Some emotions are unpleasant but they should motivate us to act. For example, if I am anxious that I may fail a test, I would be motivated to study to learn the material and pass the test, hopefully with an excellent grade!

COMMON MYTHS PEOPLE HAVE ABOUT EMOTIONS

Given that it is common for us to judge our emotions, many people develop false beliefs or ‘myths’ about emotions. Here are the most common ones, as well as why they are false.

Myth #1: There is a right way to feel in every situation.
False. Feelings are not right or wrong. They provide information about how we see a specific situation. Different people will feel different emotions depending on the situation because we all have different beliefs about ourselves, others and how the world operates. Even if two people feel the same emotion, it is possible that the intensity will vary. For example, during a funeral most people will feel sad, but the intensity of sadness will vary depending on how close each person was to the deceased person.

Myth #2: When I let others know I am feeling bad it shows I am weak or flawed.
False again. Feelings are not a weakness. Everyone experiences negative emotions and we cannot all be weak or flawed. So expressing a negative emotion simply means that something is bothering us.

Myth #3: All negative emotions will keep on increasing in intensity if I do not act now.
This is untrue. Emotions do not increase forever in intensity. They reach a peak and then they will subside.

Myth #4: Negative emotions are bad and destructive.
This is another false myth. It is not the emotion that is bad or destructive but the behaviour that results. For example, alcohol abuse, compulsive shopping, risk-taking behaviours and self-mutilation.

Myth #5: All emotions happen spontaneously for no reason.
False. All emotions happen for a reason and are the result of our perception of an event.

Myth #6: I cannot tolerate any painful emotion.
This is not true. People can learn to tolerate unpleasant emotions with practice. If we do not learn to tolerate emotions, impulsive behaviours such as drugs, regrettable sexual encounters and self-harm with lead to further problems and additional painful emotions.

Myth #7: Some emotions are completely stupid and useless.
Untrue. All emotions provide information to us so they are very useful. They help identify what we like or do not like (for example, what sports we like, how we want to be treated), they help us communicate with others (for example, facial expressions to convey anger or interest) and they help prepare us for action (for example, feeling anxious about a test motivates us to study until we feel prepared and the anxiety decreases).

Myth #8: If others do not agree with how I feel then I must be wrong.
Another false myth. There is no right or wrong emotion so emotions cannot be judged. If you feel a certain way, then it is what you are feeling regardless of what others say. Also remember that each person can experience a different emotion after the same event.

Myth # 9: Other people are the best at knowing how I am feeling.
Not true. People can only see behaviours or what you do, but not what you are feeling. Thus, each person is the best judge of how they feel.

Myth #10: All painful emotions should be ignored because they are unimportant.
False. Painful emotions are especially important because they leave significant emotional scars that need to be healed. Ignoring them will not make them go away.

Myth #11: Feeling negative or painful emotions means I am bad.
A final false myth. Feelings are not like a personality trait or a behaviour, so negative emotions do not describe us as people. In addition, everyone feels negative emotions, like anxiety or depression on occasion, and everyone cannot be ‘bad’.

WHY DO WE HAVE EMOTIONS?

This is an excellent question! We must have emotions for a reason, otherwise they would not exist. There are three major reasons why we experience emotions.

1. Emotions help to motivate us for action: Emotions help to organize our behaviour and set us in motion to accomplish a goal. For example, if you are crossing the street and you see a car run a red light in your direction, you will likely perceive danger, get anxious, and run to get out of the way. If you see a
member of the opposite as a potential romantic partner, it may motivate you to go talk to the person.

2. Emotions help us communicate with people: Emotions help us communicate with other people using our verbal and non-verbal behaviour. If you are mad at someone, you will likely raise your voice in a firm tone, stand up straight and look directly in the other person’s eye. In turn, emotions also help us recognize what others are feeling. For example, if the other person is looking at you, smiling and nodding their head during a conversation, you will likely perceive that they are listening to you and interested in what you are saying.

3. Emotions communicate to us what we like and do not like: These include a variety of information such hobbies, people, work, interests, food, how we prefer to be treated, our values, sports, etc.

THE MEANING BEHIND EMOTIONS

Now that you know why we have emotions, the next step is to understand what information each emotion is communicating to us. We are quite good at knowing why we have pleasant emotions, so this last section will focus on what unpleasant emotions mean. If someone where to ask you why we experience anxiety, what would you answer? Did you reply, “It means I feel scared” or “It means being afraid?” Scared and afraid are words that describe the intensity of anxiety. For example, tense or nervous are synonyms for a low level of anxiety, whereas panic and terrified would describe an extremely intense level of anxiety. Anxiety means that we perceive a threat or a danger. For example, I become terrified if I see a bear because I am afraid of getting mauled (i.e. danger) or I feel nervous about public speaking because I am afraid of getting judged (i.e. an emotional threat). So each emotion has a series of words that describe the intensity of the emotion, it communicates specific information to us which are thoughts, perceptions or beliefs about an event. In order to help you out with each emotion, use the following Emotions Handout as a guide. Now that you have become an expert on emotions, your next step is to read the toolkit on Change Your Negative Thinking in order to identify why you feel emotions and to help you change how you feel after an unpleasant event.

If you would like to download this article in pdf format with accompanying figures, you may do so by clicking the following link: http://www.montrealcbtpsychologist.com/SelfHelpToolkits.en.html

If you have never experienced the practice of daily journaling, give it a try.

Practicing our guitar sometimes can be exciting and sometime boring it all depends on our emotion. Whether motivated or not there are certain ways to get past it. Often when one wants to avoid practice, it might probably be that one has some level of doubt about playing a piece or not. however I have found out that there are certain steps one can take to getting into the mood for practicing guitar. Do you know whatever you do pleasantly motivates naturally, thus there specifics action steps to getting practiced with the guitar, let me help you out with some of them quickly.

WRITE YOUR GUITAR PRACTICE GOAL DOWN

Do you know that whatever you write gets you committed instantly, thus whenever you find yourself having some doubts about your practice stop and start writing the practice goals down, within short a while stop and start practicing it worked like a magic, just try it you will it works.

TRY VISUALIZATION

Visualization works as well, that is by imagining yourself taking on the guitar and playing your favourite piece, going on the stage and performing before a most elegance audience, recording your soundtrack in a studio, of if this does not work for you, try pasting your dream guitar on the wall with the powerful words attached to it to motivate you. After a while take in a deep breath to relax your mind assuring yourself you can practice well.

LISTEN TO MOTIVATING MUSIC

Oh my God, I do this a lot, anytime I am down, I quickly put on my favourite music, and get motivated into the mood I want per time, it has never failed me for once and many others, you have got to try this out yourself and get the feel of the power therein.

Now take any of these steps to get yourself started and you will always appreciate this whenever possible.

As our human emotions do, the financial markets’ ebb and flow constantly too. The only logic is found when looking back at the motives of historical events, it’s nearly impossible to predict the future. Nearly. The market will rise and fall, there are winners and losers, these points are known. Sometimes we feel good, sometimes bad. With big gains there is large risk too. You really have to ask yourself, how much am I willing to risk? If it’s only a buck or two, play the lottery. If it’s everything, why not put everything into it: your whole life; mind and body? Then we can start making a mountain from the mole hill.

Total commitment is never going to promise a preconceived result, but the energy invested will earn a result of some kind. So then, why do we have to view small gains as great successes? Because no one can afford to wait for luck and there is no book, no professional, no law, no bank that says your attempts will ever pay but we all know nothing will ever come unless we make those attempts. Mick Jagger says it best in the Rolling Stones hit, “You can’t always get what you want,” with the lines, “but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need.”

Our human emotions bring us toward the actions we spend each day practicing and even though we spend so much time in practice, mistakes are still made. So sing the song, say it, live it, praise it. For some reason, like money, the mothers and fathers of numerous children have hoped that they may become doctors, lawyers or bankers. But there really is no ensured way towards success, even doctors, lawyers, and bankers run into financial trouble. Stay the course you believe in and instead of jumping to-and-from different paths in order to become wealthy faster, look at your wealth with a different approach and become happier about it faster! Dig deep and become a part of what you practice, don’t just endure the exercise.

Karma is simply cause and effect or action and reaction. If something happens to you and you just don’t react, you can stop karma in its tracks. Of course, like many practices of a spiritual nature, this is easier said than done. The key word here is practice, though. Once you become aware of something that you were otherwise oblivious to, change begins to happen immediately. This is the power of the mind at work. It’s like shining a flashlight at a shadow in the corner. The shadow disappears. Whatever you put your attention on will grow and change. So if you make the decision to observe your reactions to things over let’s say, a forty-day period, you’ll begin to see change in how your life flows.

As you become a new observer to aspects of your life that previously went on automatically, you’ll begin to marvel at how you acted in the past. Perhaps you have a habit of getting into a road rage when you’re driving. Maybe you have to have the last word in arguments. You will change yourself if you just stop playing the game of reaction. Reaction is almost always emotional. Someone says or does something and it triggers in you a train of thought, which you then engage with emotion. This emotion swells in you and propels you into a reaction of some sort. This process always takes up a lot of energy that you could use for better things in your life. This doesn’t mean taking no action at all. It means not re-acting when something happens to you or someone does something that makes you want to respond.

Everyone has a personality and a past history, which gives them a sort of momentum. This momentum is unique to you and it makes you who you are. Everything that’s ever happened to you now and in the past has served to give you this momentum of who you are. Most of this momentum comes from the sub-conscious mind, which is seemingly invisible to us and stores everything about our total make-up. It’s this momentum of the mind that makes you want to react when confronted and when you react, then you’re maintained on the wheel of karma, action and reaction, cause and effect.

Karma is often referred to as a wheel because it keeps on spinning. Every time something confronts you and you react, it causes another like event or action and then you react again and the hamster wheel keeps spinning until you consciously step off of it by not reacting. Each time you choose not to react, you take back a part of your energy that you once would’ve squandered on emotional outbursts, constant plotting and planning and strategizing over ways to handle some meaningless event.

As you take back more and more of this energy previously wasted on reaction, you can use it to make better choices. You can then take positive action, based on your whole being and what is important to you. You can use this energy to put your whole head and heart behind a purpose that resonates with you deep inside. This is known as dharma. Dharma can be described as action in line with your higher purpose. When you’re in line with your higher purpose, there’s no resistance because you’re in line with the higher part of your self and so your willpower in action is supported by your soul and that propels you forward. Dharma is like those moving sidewalks at the airport. Let’s say that before you get on the moving sidewalk you’re just like everybody else. But once you get on dharma, on purpose, it’s like stepping on to the moving sidewalk and as you walk, the sidewalk which is also moving, takes you faster to where you want to be. The power behind the moving sidewalk that is dharma is your soul’s purpose.

It’s easy to get discouraged wondering, how do I find this dharma, this purpose? How do I take right action? The good news is you don’t have to think too much about it or even worry about it. Just decide to practice not reacting and stick to it with the power of will. If you practice not reacting eventually your mind will calm and the power you take back will begin to guide you and the right events will appear. The key is patience and preparation. Live each day in the moment and take care of the body by being healthy, maintain and strengthen the mind through discipline and meditation. Practicing these things with patience and perseverance will begin to attract to you the teachers, people and events you require to live in dharma. Then you will transcend the momentum of your karma and move forward with the purpose of your life and that is always inspiring to those around you.

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