How to control and manage your state of mind.

Your state of mind is your mental attitude or condition and it determines how you behave, interpret or respond to an external event. It affects your behavior, health, attitude and your performance.

Your mental attitude affects your emotions and it works the other way too. How you use your body affect your mental and emotional state and moment to moment experience.

When you are in resourceful productive states of curiosity, creativity, pleasure or alertness, you perform and function outstandingly. In this condition, your mood and morale are high and emotions are strong.

Your habitual and out of control mental state is the cause for your overwhelming, defeated and inadequate feelings. It is the response to your post hypnotic programming that you have unconsciously characterized with. Learning to change or re-focus your mindset or frame of mind will lead you to shift your awareness and lead your to perform at your best.

How to take control of your state of mind.

• Alter your internal picture.

Your mind immediately pictures something from your stored memories when you see, hear or feel something on the outside. The normal way you would respond is to "fight or flee".

You could instead use creative imagination and recall powerful experiences instead. Anticipating in your mind of something positive helps. Altering the picture affect thinking and feeling and it shifts your current awareness.

• Ask yourself empowering questions using words, metaphors and the right language.

You must stop to ask yourself if your reaction and response matter. Asking yourself forceful questions allow choices with regard to how you want to feel or behave. It pushes you to use your intelligence instead of your emotions.

• Induce a trance state.

You can alter your automatic mental process by using hypnosis, practicing yoga, meditation, prayer or using audio stimuli. They involve deep relaxed breathing and permit you to have highly focused attention and shift your awareness.

Internal focus provides a deep and relaxed feeling and condition and enables you to reprogram, reassess and transform your emotions and mental habits.

• Engage your body in energetic pose or stance.

What is your stance when you are tired, tense, relaxed or rested? Your posture affects your mode of thought. 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.

• Connect with other people.

People and your relationships with them are your resources for inspiration, learning, behaving and emoting. Connecting with other people when you are in an unresourceful state of emotion help you alter your mood and morale.

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.

The Silva Method is a tool that can help you get into a relaxed state easily.

You should make an effort to deviate your habitual negative state if you care to get better results and become a better person. Take time to list and identify your resourceful states so that you can summon when you need them.

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