You Create Every Single Emotion You Experience

Every emotion you’ve ever felt was created inside your brain and communicated to your nervous system. It’s simply a biological and neurological cocktail that you have manufactured inside yourself.

And, even though it can feel as if something or someone is “making” you feel a certain way (be it loved, happy, angry, stressed, frustrated, passionate, etc.), all that thing or person is doing – at the very most – is eliciting an automatic pathway inside your neurology, to create those feelings.

This is fantastic news for people like you and me, who are interested self-empowerment and in creating a life of power, purpose and passion by exceeding our human potential.

It means that, if we learn how to elicit those same feelings from ourselves, we can have power, control and access to them whenever we choose!

This, my friend is self-empowerment!

You can feel as loved, as confident, as patient, as motivated, as focused as you’ve ever felt in your life, simply by choosing to do so, if you learn how…

…because YOU create your emotions!

No one else…you and you alone!

This means that when you change your perception of the triggers that lead to an automatic pathway for a specific emotion inside you, you can have the very same external events make you feel completely different.

A few years ago, a friend of mine was asked by one of the doctors who refer patients to him to help one of the most depressed people he had ever met; a highly suicidal patient who was locked up under 24-hour suicide watch in a psychiatric ward.

One of the first things the patient told my friend when he met her, was that she couldn’t ever remember being happy, even once.

According to her, she had a terrible childhood and an even worse life as an adult, and her psychiatrists had told her why – she had a severe chemical imbalance.

After a little jovial prodding from my friend, for a few seconds she remembered that she had felt happy “once” when she was a kid. However, she believed that, because of her chemical imbalance, she wouldn’t be able to ever feel that way again.

So, he asked her to do one important thing. He asked her to remember that “one time” when she had been happy. He helped her a little, so she got back some of the details, and guess what happened?

The same thing that happens with everyone—those same feelings of happiness she once had come back into her body.

Within 10 to 15 seconds she went from being miserable to having her “second” experience that was filled with happiness.

Now even though this was just the first few minutes of working with her, and far, far from being everything that was needed, I’m sharing it with you to make one important point.

Namely, that anyone (even someone who’s depressed enough that they have to be restrained on 24-hour suicide watch) can gain access to the resourceful feelings they need, if they’re taught how.

Her neurology had everything it needed to feel good, on demand; she just hadn’t been taught how to turn on the pathways of happiness inside her.

In many years of working with people on their mental strength, I’ve never come across anyone who wasn’t unable to feel the positive emotions they were after.  This is what the teleseminar “21 Days to Creating a Workable life” is all about…thinking and feeling greater than your conditions.

If someone has ever felt a certain emotion at any time in his or her life, then it means that he or she possesses all the right “chemicals” and neurological pathways inside them to have that emotion again.

What’s more, that person can learn to automatically have those feelings in almost any context desired.

For example:

• If you’ve felt passionate at a baseball game, you can feel the same passion when working.

• If you’ve felt disgusted by a particular food you absolutely hate, your brain is more than capable of helping you automatically feel that same way about chocolate (if you wanted to stop eating it, as did a previous diabetic client I had).

• If you’re confident talking to your family, but you’re petrified of giving a speech to an audience at work, you can change the emotional pathway that has been automatically triggered by being in front of that audience in the past – and automatically feel confident from now on standing at the podium at work too.

And, again, all you’ve got to learn is how…all you have to do is think greater than your conditions and exceed your human potential via self-empowerment.

That’s what mental strength all about; how think and feel greater than your current conditions, become self-empowered and exceed your human potential.

Here is one more piece I want to cover.

This is really important because there is a lot of rubbish and a lack of accurate thinking these days in the self-help market, and this leads people to setting impossible goals for themselves and feeling hopeless, and very let down when they don’t reach them. That’s not useful to anyone.

Instead, by having an understanding of this one critical distinction I’m about to share with you, you will have a much more accurate – and powerful – mental strength mindset for creating the life of your dreams, and being the kind of person you truly yearn to be, but first…

Are You Rich…Emotionally?

Our emotions are ultimately the juice that fills our needs, gives our lives meaning, and makes us feel so, so alive!

On the other hand, an emotionally barren life is a barren life. It’s a powerful warning signal that we need to make some changes in regard to how we’re living life, fast…so that we rekindle the true joys of life.

There are a myriad of wonderful feelings that we’re capable of feeling; feelings that come from inside us, available at any moment if we know how to access them.

To spark your imagination, here’s a short list:

Elation, curiosity, passion, desire, tenacity, cheerfulness, tenderness, love, excitement, exhilaration, patience, courage, calm, peace of mind, exuberance, happiness, self-belief, sense of humor, bliss, euphoria, joy, optimism, gracefulness, security, faith, rapture, fascination, feeling cherished, energetic, being bubbly, satisfaction, ecstasy, hopeful, full of glee, feeling blessed, outgoing, feeling grateful, feeling compassionate, humility, persistence, peacefulness, feeling loved, freedom, harmony, gregarious, excitable, in awe, cherished, vibrant, in the zone, feeling special, playfulness, intrigue, confident, energized, captivated, enthralled, compelled, driven, ecstatic.

So, my question to you is simple…

Many people strive to become financially rich. That’s fine and good, and financial freedom is important.

But, is your life also emotionally rich?

How many different kinds of pleasant emotions do you experience on a regular basis throughout your life?

And, correspondingly, since emotions are the basis of all meaning…is your life full of joy and meaning?

More on this next week…if you’d like to exceed your human potential pick up a copy of Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior today.