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Tool Kit for Happiness



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Wouldn't it be great to have a quick process to feel better every time you were not feeling your emotional best?

The key to the quick part is to process emotions as they arrive so they stay small and manageable. We have all trained ourselves that we don’t have time for this, and it might be emotionally too painful to even take a peek at why we are feeling bad. You owe it to yourself to give this method a try. By ignoring your feelings, you are setting yourself up for a possible lifetime of pain. What sounds better, a little clarification now, or the devastating effects of living a life run by your negative emotions????


When we suppress emotions throughout our life their roots run very deep in our psyches. The consequences to our mental and physical health become higher the longer we suppress these negative emotions. Just by keeping them onboard we are attracting more of the same. I know from personal experience that they can be flushed out, no matter how deep they have been ingrained in our way of thinking. Remember we are not our thoughts, they are just what we are thinking right now, and we can change them. It just takes recognizing that we are giving them our attention and having the willingness to usher them out.


One of the most helpful books on this subject is called "Letting go, the Pathway of Surrender" by David R. Hawkins. I consider it the encyclopedia of the scale of emotions and how to let them pass out of our lives, a must have in any library. Hawkins explains how emotions create unique electromagnetic frequencies that forecast to the world how we are feeling. This frequency will draw to us things that are similar (of the same electromagnetic vibration). Our emotional perspective also affects how we see EVERYTHING! This a very simplified explanation, but if you want to change your frequency you can inhabit the electromagnetic signature of a better emotion. The book has a wonderful chart of the emotions and goes into detail explaining how to recognize which one you are feeling. Once you recognize your being haunted by a specific emotion, you can see that almost everything you feel is shaded by this cloud. Hawkins reminds us, once we understand which emotion we are dealing with, and we take time to fully feel and understand it, we can let it go. By turning them over to our higher power (whatever we believe in God, the Universe, Source, Mother Nature, our Dog etc.) we can take the weight we are feeling off our shoulders.


Next time you are feeling a strong emotion that is getting in the way of your happiness, try asking these questions to clarify it. Once you understand what it is telling you, it let it go. Take as long you need to get clarity. If it pops up again, do not be discouraged, just go through the process again until it is fully released.


Once an emotion you are feeling is identified ask these following questions:


1) Does this make me feel angry? Why? Angry about what? How am I angry at myself about this emotion?


2) Am I sad within this emotion? What am I sad about? What am I missing that I am sad about?


3) Why does this emotion bring up fear in me? What am I scared of? Why am I scared of it? What fear is lurking in me about how I feel about myself resembles this?


4) This emotion that I am feeling does it leave me with a sense of regret? What am I regretting, and why have I kept myself separate from what I am regretting? Is there a way to have a do over and choose again? Can I forgive myself for making a choice in the past that I now believe was not the best I could have made?

These questions will help you understand what is keeping the emotion active within you. Understanding is power!!!!! Once you understand why you are holding on to an emotion, you can process it and let it go. The cool thing is emotions are just information. Like someone who is trying to tell you something over and over and over they won't quit until they think you've got the message. Emotions are clues to remind we can feel better if we process them to the point of releasing them. Let them tell you what they need to tell you, and then let them go. (By actually writing this Q and A down, your subconscious mind will have the new understanding more powerfully installed) With this clarity on board, you can make your choices from a new perspective, enabling you to create your best life.





 
 
 

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