Your state of mind shifts, changes and alters countless of times during your waking hours. Each state is a temporary mental and emotional condition.
When you are in a resourceful state, you perform and function outstandingly. In this condition, your confidence is high and your emotions are positive. When your frame of mind is negative, you'll think and feel that everything around you is wrong, limiting or bad.
If you pay attention to your mental and emotional states, you'll notice that you go through similar and repeated patterns of thinking and feeling in a day. Among the common ones are the states of dissatisfaction, vacillation, indecision, fear and impatience.
The psychological condition you're in at any given time will determine how you behave, interpret or react to a situation or person. If you don't deliberately switch the limiting frames of mind, your inner state will develop into another. If for example you are worried about something right now and you allow that thought to linger, it will develop into fear. The fear will build up and make you feel depressed.
"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." - Wayne Dyer
Your state of mind and reactions are based on your stored memories, internal representations, beliefs, personal values and the meanings you attached to a situation. Becoming aware of the things that trigger your states requires discipline and making it a habit of noticing. But you must do it if you want to stop yourself from automatically reacting to something. Once you notice why you feel and react the way you do, you can change, alter or delete the old and negative mental programming and conditioning and replace them with new and empowering ones.
Your mind immediately pictures something from your stored memories when you see, hear, smell or taste something on the outside. The normal way you would respond is to "fight or flee". The next time you notice, recall mental images of an occasion when you had successfully handled it. You can also alter the mental image by distorting or twisting it or imagine new mental pictures.
Asking questions provide you with choices with regard to how you want to feel or behave. It pushes you to use your intelligence instead of your emotions. You are asking your brain to find the answers, explore possibilities and bring you to conscious awareness. An example:
When you are awake, the communication inside you is non-stop. Your inner talk is always telling you to take precaution, reminding you that you can't do something, etc. Usually you aren't aware but you obey. The best thing to do about these inner talk is to "catch," question them and replace with positive affirmations using uplifting words and better language.
Instead of saying, "I always make the same mistake," replace the phrase and say something like, "I have made the right decisions in the past and produce the results that I expected. This is just a feedback. What can I learn from this? The next time, I'll do better than this."
What is your body stance when you feel tired, tense, relaxed or rested? Your posture and physiology affects your state of mind. Changes in the way you move, stand or gesture influence your mental process. Aerobic exercise or any activity that uses your body and your breathing affect your brain and will change your focus.
Your subconscious has been so wired that you resist change. You may have tried to use your willpower to change your state of mind but to no avail. An easier way to change your mind and your life is using subliminal messages and images. It is easier because you don't have to put yourself in a receptive mode to reprogram your subconscious. Click here for more information about the subliminal images and words tool.
You can alter your automatic mental process by using hypnosis, practicing yoga and meditation. All these exercises involve deep relaxed breathing and allow you to have highly focused attention, shift your awareness and change your brainwaves frequencies.
It would benefit you if you decide on getting into a relaxed state as much as you can. Problems, negative emotions and situations are solved or transformed when your mind is at ease and are able to welcome new thoughts and ideas. Internal focus provides a deep and relaxed feeling and condition and enables you to reprogram, reassess and transform your emotions and mental habits.
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