What are Emotions (Part 2)

Welcome back. Just to recap, in Part 1 we identified that Negative Emotions are pointers to change (Emotional Signposts).

For example the emotion of Fear = get prepared, cope with or deal with.

6 steps to help you deal with these emotions when they arise -

1 Identify the emotion
2 Appreciate the message (see below, The Action Signals)
3 How can you use it
4 Feel reassured
5 See release as a tool of empowerment
6 Take action to improve the situation


10 basic messages of change (The Action Signals)

1 Uncomfortable – boredom, impatience
2 Fear – worry, apprehension
3 Hurt – loss
4 Anger – irritated, annoyed
5 Frustration – held back
6 Disappointment
7 Guilt – regret
8 Inadequacy – less than perfect
9 Overloaded – hopeless, depressed, more than you can deal with
10 Loneliness


The Mastery Steps

The following steps are designed to help you take control of your emotional situation

1 - Identify the signal then

a) change your state
b) clarify what you want
c)take action in that direction

Change your perception or your procedure.

2 - Appreciate the message

3 - Get Curious – how do you want to feel. What would you need to believe
to feel this way
What would you be willing to do to handle this emotion. What can you learn
from this.

4 - Get Confident – remember when you have felt this before and got over it.
What did you do?

5 - Get Certain – identify 3 or 4 ways of dealing with the emotion

6 - Get Excited – Take MASSIVE Action. - Kill the monster while it is little!!!
And finally ….....

Here are 10 emotions to cultivate seeds of greatness, to make life work.

1 Love and warmth

2 Appreciation and Gratitude

3 Curiosity (wonder)

4 Excitement and Passion

5 Determination

6 Flexibility

7 Confidence

8 Cheerfulness

9 Health

10 Contribution

I hope that in some way these notes on Emotions have helped you to understand that they are your responsibility and belong to no-one else.

Remember – there is not one person alive today who can make you feel anything (despite what you may believe) you are responsible for every feeling you experience.

So now let me wish you a fantastic life from this moment forwards and live passionately in every moment.

Taking Massive Action

Hi and welcome to my Altered Image blog for today

I am prompted to write this today because of the inspirational message I selected for my Facebook pages - "You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind"

Taken literally a farmer looks at his 5 acre field then closes his eyes and imagines over and over and over again that it is ploughed. After several minutes he opens his eyes again and guess what has happened to the field? NOTHING, ZERO, ZILCH, NADA! It is still the same as it was before he closed his eyes.

The above illustration serves to demonstrate that postive thinking alone is simply not enough to get the job done. If our country gent wants to get his 5 acre field ploughed he must do several things to make it happen -

1. He must decide that he is going to get the field ploughed
2. Next he must commit to getting the field ploughed
3. He must resolve to get the field ploughed

and finally

4. He must take massive action to get it done.

So the decision to get the field ploughed is easy, but before it is going to happen the farmer has to move from simply having an idea or a thought into a state where this idea needs to become a MUST.

Without being a MUST the idea or notion stays in the realms of "should" and will never get done. Taking the step of making the idea a MUSY moves the farmer into a state of commitment.

Now having committed to getting the field ploughed he has to move up another gear, he needs to resolve to get this task done. This move will require an altering of his present state to one of

"come hell or high water that field is going to get ploughed on Monday"

At this time our farmer is now well on the way to getting his field ploughed, he is in a state of "MOMENTUM". However, there is one more thing that must be achieved before he takes his action, he needs to work out his "STRATEGY" - he has to ensure that

a) he has a plough
b) all the blades are attached
c) he has fuel in the tractor to make it run
d) where he is going to start to plough
3) in which direction he is going to plough (because he needs to create a series of straight furrows)

Finally, he needs to take his Massive Action.

In this case taking that action probably means our farmer having an early night, then getting up very early on Monday morning.

Irrespective of what the weather is doing he needs to get out there onto that tractor and plough that field, because that is the only way it will be done.

Now I know that this example may seem over simplistic but the processes are exactly the same no matter what we set out to do, It might be going to the shop for the weekly shop, or we might intend to build a skyscraper or we want to change our lives - to do any of these things and move from one position to another we have to take Massive Action.

So until the next time

Don't predict the future - CREATE IT!

DAve