Reprogramming Ourselves for Success

Are your feelings overwhelming at times?
Does your mind chatter and obsess?
Well, you are in good company.
Most of us unwittingly get caught up in runaway emotions or thoughts without even realizing it. Stop the train I want to get off!

We need to learn to manage our emotions. It's the meanings we assign to beliefs that fuel our emotions. So, to harness our strongest motivator, our emotions, requires us to assign NEW MEANINGS to our currently held BELIEFS. For instance, such and such didn't call so you know they hate you. This in turn makes you feel bad. The reality is that perhaps the person didn't call because of something totally unrelated to you and you in turn created the negative feeling.

Beware of internalizing projections whether self-generated or hurled at you by someone else. If your mind or someone else says "You didn't do it right! You are a failure." Chances are it's NOT true. However, we assume the voice is correct, assign a meaning, create a belief and now this creates a strong emotion within us.

What if we could use this same process to create positive uplifting emotions? After all, we have been known to rationalize and justify our own actions. Well, then this demonstrates that we can "manipulate" or control our emotional states. It's our choice.

Simply re-assign a meaning and create a new belief by saying internally "I did it right! I am a success." Validate yourself when others don't. Have compassion for yourself when others don't.
Know that you don't have to believe other peoples' projections. Know that their reality has been filtered through their mis-perceptions and judgmental egos. They could possibly be 2% correct with the rest being hogwash. Be careful when you are judging others knowing that they are mostly your own issues being projected outward.

We also need to realize that our inner being of spirit is truly separate from our chattering thoughts. Our brains are amazing. What we focus on will determine our experience of life.
Know that our thoughts need to be in check as they create our reality. Learn to quiet the mind and fall into the gap between words and thoughts. Meditation exercises like breath walking, sitting, yoga, tai chi, provide an opportunity for us to breath into the stillness of being and help in us learning to quiet the chattering mind.

When we are obsessing and our eyes glaze over we may need a break from ourselves. Haven't you ever walked away from a problem in frustration only to return to a solution that had eluded you earlier? The same goes for your internal chatter. We need to get up and walk away through breathing, meditating, and/or exercising. I can't deny that some find benefit through the use of pills, alcohol, marijuana, or other distraction to moderate their overwhelming emotions that are beyond their threshold of pain tolerance. Those times and types of detrimental escapisms should be few and far between as to not establish a self-defeating pattern, habit, or addiction. We can choose positive addictions that strengthen us.

So, happiness and inner peace is attainable through managing our emotions. Simply by monitoring our thoughts and focus, knowing that the meanings we assign to events create our beliefs, we can ultimately reprogram ourselves. Make a conscious choice to observe your thoughts and emotions and know we can reprogram ourselves for success in the "Azure Edge".