This morning I listened to Day 15 of Anthony Robbins Personal Power a 30 day program to change your life.

Day Fifteen

Tony explains that our lives are controlled by our unconscious emotional rituals. He explains that every state is created by a pattern of focus or body movements. In order to feel a disempowering or positive emotion you go through a certain ritual.

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Daily Exercise- Day 15

5 Negative Emotions in my life

• Overwhelmed
• Frustrated
• Worried
• Disappointed
• Ashamed

Overwhelm-To feel overwhelmed my ritual goes like this:

• Must focus on too many problems at once and think about how I cant improve them
• Start by thinking about one problem and then let it spread thinking about all my problems stacking up
• Think about how things keep getting worse “no matter what I do”
• Think about how bad this makes me feel and how I don’t feel in control
• Slouch and breathe slower
• Compare myself to how I think I “should” be doing or how I “should” feel
• Get upset with myself for allowing myself to get into negative state and thought patterns

Frustrated-To get frustrated my ritual goes something like this:

• Must focus on how things could be instead of enjoying how things are and enjoying the process
• Start thinking how much better things could be or should be
• Think about all the things that are out of my control that are holding me back
• Focus on how things used to be or could be if those things weren’t happening
• Get frustrated because I start to think about how much better things could be.

Worried-To get worried my ritual goes like this:

• Must be focusing on things in the future not working out or thinking about how bad things could turn out
• Start to think about problems in the future or that could happen
• Focus on how or why things could turn out wrong
• Begin worrying about the future instead of having faith that things will improve or at least be alright.

Disappointed-To get disappointed my ritual goes like this:

• Feel like something hasn’t turned out how it should, instead of trying to focus on the process and thinking about how I could improve or what I could learn
• Get upset about an expectation or a standard of mine has been broken
• Feel like things will always continue like this and not change
• Think about all the times I have been disappointed in the past by the same person or event
• Get disappointed by thinking how I would never do that to someone or thinking about how I planned and expected things to be

Ashamed-to feel ashamed my ritual is:

• Must be focused on how i broke one of my own standards or guidelines. Living in a way I’m not proud of
• Break one of my own rules or act in a way that is not in alignment with my values
• Think about how I have done the same thing in the past
• Focus on how bad it makes me feel to not be doing what I believe is the right thing

5 Empowering Emotions

• Grateful
• Happy
• Motivated
• Excited
• Proud

Grateful- My Ritual-To feel grateful i have to:

• Remember how lucky I am to be alive and think about all the great things and people I have in my life
• I focus on how my life used to be and how far I have come
• I focus on my loved ones and my blessings

Happy-My ritual for happiness goes like this:

• I usually start by laughing and smiling as I think about all the great things in my life
• I breathe more fully and remember that happiness is a choice not something that happens to me

Motivated

My ritual for feeling motivated involves:

• Focusing on my progress or my commitment to improve my life. I focus on things that I have accomplished in the past and how good I felt after them.
• I am focusing on the future and how it will be even better than my present

Excited

My ritual for excitement requires me to:

• Mentally rehearse positive outcomes and thinking how good it will feel once those outcomes happen.
• Looking forward and focusing on how great things will be. Thinking about improvements in my life and future

Proud

My ritual for being proud involves

• Focusing on how good of a job I did or how fast something has happened.
• Thinking about my daughter brings me so much pride to see her learn and grow. I am smiling or grinning with joy

Interrupts to negative rituals

• Move my body
• Jump up and down
• Look up
• Change my focus
• Review this post
• Laugh
• Smile

Procrastination my ritual-

• Say that I can do it later or tomorrow and think about how what Im doing is better even though its not what I need to be doing

Interrupt procrastination

Procrastinate tomorrow