Feelings, feelings, feelings! Does it seem like your whole life depends on how you feel? Sometimes you feel great, other times terrible, and most of the time you feel good. When you feel great “on top of the world”, don’t you feel like you can achieve anything? When you’re feeling down, depressed, or negative, don’t you feel like nothing’s worth it and even if it was, you’d probably fail anyway? Like I said, most of the time you’ll find yourself somewhere in the middle, just dealing with life on a day to day basis. But what do you think you could achieve if you could control your emotional state and evoke any emotion you wanted?
To develop this ability you must first realize what an emotion is. Emotions are not monsters or masters of your state. They are simply feelings that you create from your own perceptions. You evoke emotions based on internal and external circumstances which are usually based on your past experiences!
When you experience a feeling, it is just an emotion that has been triggered by your thoughts, and these thoughts, in turn, have been triggered by your memories. These memories can be pleasant or painful depending on how you processed the situation when it initially occurred. When faced with a similar situation or event in the present, your brain replays these memories on a conscious or usually unconscious level and feeds back the emotion associated with it.
We give our emotions and feelings many different names like joy, pleasure, happiness, fear, pain, frustration, anger, but there are really only two emotions. One feels good and the other feels bad!
Surely 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 really bad, you probably won’t even try the company at all! Fear takes over!
What if you could feel good in situations where you felt bad before? What do you think it would mean to you?
Your emotional responses reside in your subconscious mind. It controls them and is responsible for feeding you feelings on a conscious level. This is why it can be so difficult or almost impossible for you to consciously create emotions. You can’t just tell yourself to be happy and suddenly you’re overjoyed. In fact, the opposite often happens when 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 access your subconscious and reprogram it, just like a computer!
So how do you do this?
Well, luckily there is a way and it’s a lot easier than you might think. Of course, it’s called HYPNOSIS. By using hypnosis or self-hypnosis you can easily and quickly access the subconscious mind.
“Okay, that all sounds great,” you might say, “but what do I do then, Sherlock?”
Well, a skilled hypnotist, whether in person or on tape, can quickly ‘anchor’ new feelings to old memories. You can take a memory that has some very bad emotional responses connected to it and neutralize those emotions. Then he will reconnect his old memory with new positive emotions.
This involves the use of some very advanced forms of NLP (which can also be used very effectively without hypnosis). The positive effects of these techniques free you from old memories that prevent you from moving forward in your life and also reprogram your mind to feel optimistic and hopeful when faced with similar situations in the present and future.
This is also how phobias are treated and explaining this process should give you an idea of the power and benefits of using it on other emotional issues. Let’s say you have a real fear of spiders. Now everyone knows that the fear of spiders is irrational in most cases and has no basis in truth. A house spider can’t do you any harm! So you get a hypnosis recording to deal with your arachnophobia. So what happens?
First the hypnotist will relax your mind and body and then make you think of a happy scene full of beautiful creatures that you like. Let’s say, for example, that you love little fluffy kittens. He will immerse you in the image and guide you to the beauty of the animal and evoke kind and loving emotions. Then he will ask you to think of a spider. He can have you put skates on him and watch him try to walk or imagine that he has a funny face or kind demeanor. In this way he will neutralize the negative feelings you currently have about the arachnid. Then he will connect the previous image of the kittens, and therefore the positive emotions associated with it, to the image of the funny spider. You will also be guided to see the beauty of this little creature and its usefulness in nature. Therefore, sometimes in just one session, you can completely reverse a phobia!
Similarly, the emotional response to any situation, circumstance, person, or event can be reverted to any positive emotional response you desire. Such is the power of hypnosis and the creativity of your mind. You will simply learn to react in a different, more positive way, and through modern mental techniques you can learn to do it in any way you want.
So there really is no excuse for suffering more at the hands of your negative emotions. You can reprogram your mind to feel however you want. Take a look, you might like it!