STUDY YOUR EMOTIONS

Ignoring negative emotions is like

keeping poison in your system. Learn

to understand everything that you feel.

The aim isn’t to force positive thoughts,

but to transform the negative ones into

something healthier, so you can feel better.

Our dominant thoughts significantly influence our emotions; they’re crucial to how we feel. The issue many of us have when we try to become positive thinkers is that we ignore the transformation process. We assume that it’s better to wipe out negative thoughts, numb our feelings and move on to more positive ideas. This is often ineffective because you’re just trying trick yourself into thinking things are okay, when your true feelings suggest otherwise. Repressed feelings can become toxic within your system and can eventually cause damage.

If a venomous thought sits deep within your mind, it will reappear when you experience a similar situation in the future. Not only will this lower your vibration, but the continuity of this pattern can also damage your mental health, and in turn your physical health. You may also become extremely toxic for others to be around, making you lonely and further adding to your misery.

So don’t suppress your negative emotions. Instead, transform them so you an raise your vibration – not just now, but for all similar events in the future. Understanding your emotions will allow you to transform them from a low vibration to a high vibration over and over again. This is why introspection is so important to personal development.

We need to turn our negative emotions back into positive ones, so follow the following step-by-step method for achieving this.

How to transform negative emotions

1. Identify: to change your emotional state, you must identify what emotion you’re feeling. There will be a moment you felt sad and afraid. After delving deeper, we must identified our condition when we felt neglected and insecure.

2. Challenge: the next step would be to question yourself: Why do you feel the way you do? What thoughts are responsible for this? Some of us feel lonely and insecure because of our looks and appearance.

At this stage, you have consciously begun to observe your thoughts. A lot of the beliefs we have are based on exaggeration, misconception and opinions imposed on us by other people. Therefore, we can challenge these erroneous ideas and judgements in our mind. We can analyse our thought processes and change our negative thought patterns to more positive ones, in a logical way.

Begin to challenge the beliefs behind your thoughts by questioning their validity. We must ask questions that force us think negativity and dig deeper. You can also ask extreme questions, because they’ll inspire extreme answers. Our joy wasn’t dependent on how others interacted with us.

Posing questions to yourself can reveal limitations in your thinking. You’ll begin to realize that you have made false assumptions and focused on the negative aspects of situations in your life.

Try it. Perhaps bring up a past experience that made you unhappy, and ask yourself direct questions that help you get to the heart of the matter. It’s important to realize that we create our own sadness by attaching negative conclusions to these past experiences in our subconscious mind. Here we must challenge these conclusions, which are stored as lessons. Failing to correct the negative lessons means they’re replayed in your subconscious mind. Over time, these lessons on repeat can weigh you down and induce depression.

3. Understand: This step is all about appreciating the deeper meaning behind the emotion. We started to worry that we wasn’t good and attractive enough.

You must recognize the deeper meanings behind your feelings and make use of them as opportunities to grow. We need to be valued and accepted to feel better about ourself.

4. Replace: These disempowering thoughts must then be replaced with empowering ones. You must ask yourself: How can I view or do things differently, to help myself feel better and live a greater life?

It’s essential to transform destructive thoughts into ones that make you feel better in the moment. We must accept that we are worthy of love, regardless of how others might have opinion towards us.

To add substance to these empowering thoughts, think back to times when you truly felt the way you want to feel.

This technique not only boosts confidence, but it may also bring forth a solution. You may remember something you did during a similar situation in the past that helped you to manage it.

5. Visualize: Visualize yourself handling the emotion you’re currently feeling – in the future. As you do this, not only will your vibration increase, but you’ll also begin to create an autonomous association with that emotion that’ll enable your brain to handle it for you effortlessly down the line.

You can do this over and over again, each time stretching your imagination and making it more real in your mind’s eye.

Repetition is the key to mastery. If you rehearse over and over again a situation in which you deal with the emotion, you’ll know exactly how to manage it next time it comes up in your life.