Today's blog will attempt to detail how to help yourself get positive when you are feeling down. All of us have "down" days but some folks have lots of down days and their down days are crash and burn days. The most important thing we can do for ourselves is to learn how to shift from negative to positive, what is important is that you feel "better". When you feel "better", you are in a more positive state, you are more effective in your life and you are an asset to your loved ones. When you are down and in a negative state, you are not as effective in your life and you are finding stress and problems all about. The big question is, "how do I shift out of the funk and pivot into a better place using my own efforts so that I feel better?" I am going to show you how, BUT, you have to want to change, as I say, you have to want to "change your mind". When you are negative you are in a state of mind that is polar opposite from that state of mind when you are positive and therefore you will find yourself sarcastic, critical, irritated, frustrated, angry and overwhelmed and confused by any process offered that can help you change. That is the nature of being negative, so understand that you are going to be naturally resistant. So here is how the game is played, I am going to teach/allow you to "baby-step" your way to feeling better.
Lets start with you noticing your breathing, take a deep yet relaxed full breath in, for 3 or 4 seconds and a slow and controlled breath out, for 3 or 4 seconds. When we are stressed we take short choppy breaths and we have periods of actually holding our breath and not even knowing it. We need nice deep relaxed full breaths to oxygenate ourselves and to improve our heart rhythms, it is actually difficult to be stressed when we are breathing nice deep relaxed breaths. Try to continue this type of full breathing and ideally make it a habit, try to imagine your breath in and out, instead of breathing up and down. Imagine that your
inhale goes in back towards your spine and when you exhale and breathe out, the direction is out through your chest. (also experiment with breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth.)
Now, find something having to do with your body that you can actually generate some degree of appreciation for, maybe the fact that you are able to breathe, try to feel some degree of thankfulness for your lungs and the vital work they do for you. If there is a body part that does not hurt, go there and show some appreciation for not having any pain in that joint or muscle and just say a sincere thank you to that body part and feel grateful for no pain. Look around and locate a vibrant color that you like and give appreciation for the beauty of colors and for the amazing gift of sight and say to yourself, thank you, thank you , thank you. Now, go back to your lungs and be thankful and appreciative again for your ability to breathe and say thank you for healthy lungs and for the ever abundant oxygen nature provides. And as you do so, generate a feeling of sincere gratitude and then try to give your lungs and the gift of breathe even more appreciation, just a little bit more and say thank you again. Next, go to that same area of your body that has no pain and feel again the thankfulness you have for having no pain and for the function that body part provides for you and feel some gratitude and then try to feel just a bit more gratitude and say thank you... "Baby step" your way to feeling better as you establish more and more sincere appreciation, gratitude and thankfulness at this very moment.
So what you want to do is to become aware of what ever you can pertaining to your body or your immediate environment for which you can find yourself appreciative of and thankful for. Then go back and try to feel that appreciation again and make it just a bit stronger. Notice how your clothes feel against your body and if it feels good, say thank you and if you can hear a sound, say thank you for your ability to hear and if you can see something interesting or pleasant, maybe something in nature, see if you can find some appreciation for what you see and then feel the gratitude you are generating and say thank you , thank you, thank you and feel how good that feels. Then go back and give ever more feelings of appreciation and gratitude to what you just found and make it stronger.
Spend your time focusing on and giving your attention to anything and everything that you can bestow your feeling of appreciation and gratitude and thankfulness for. It could be the sunshine, the rain, the clouds, the breeze, the trees, the birds, the road, the internet, electricity, your family, your dog, your car, your shoes, music, tv, a shower, coffee and folks who grow it for you, fruit and fruit trees and all the people involved in growing and delivering that piece of fruit especially for you, soap, the towel, toothbrush, fresh water, your neighbors, neighborhood, your city... Become creative, there is no limit to the object/subjects of your gratitude and thankfulness.
Understand that the effectiveness of this process is not so much just the "thought" of Appreciation, Gratitude and Thankfulness (A.G.T). The real magic is in the sincere intensity of the "feeling" that is created/generated by your focus and attention to the object/subject of your intentional thought. Soon you will begin to feel as if you are pulsing and radiating this good feeling of (A.G.T), realize this feeling is an energy and it has a distinct vibration and frequency. You will know the distinct nature of this energy by how it makes you feel. Its character can be well differentiated from the feeling/energy of sadness, anger, frustration, anxiety and hopelessness. Bathe yourself in this good positive healing energy and send it to your loved ones and to any area of your life that needs healing or improvement.
What we are doing with this process is we are "baby-stepping" our way OUT of our preoccupation with the past or future-that has gotten us into our current state of funk and we are now actively immersing ourselves INTO the present moment, where we search for anything we can find to appreciate and to be thankful for. If you can continue along this line of thinking and feeling, you will slowly begin to feel better and better and you will find that you will be able to shift yourself out of negativity and into the direction of feeling positively better. You will shift or pivot yourself little by little as if climbing out of a dark dank hole one ladder step at a time.
What we want to do is eventually re-pattern our thinking and feeling nature by intentionally giving our focus and attention to what we want in life and not on the "don't wants" that make us feel bad. What makes us miserable is when we focus and give our attention to what we don't want or to the absence or lack of what we do want. Keep yourself pointed in thought-in the direction of what you want, your desired state, and on the solutions to getting there vs the negative focus on the don't wants in your life and all the problems. It is all a matter of choice and we can make a positive choice of thought that makes us feel good with more peace and calm and joy and happiness or we can choose the misery of a negative focus. I believe it was Abraham Lincoln who once said, "most people are just about as happy in their lives as they make up their mind to be."
The magic of intentional thought is for everyone and anyone who wants to be THE creative force for what they experience in their life. You now have the process of how to make your life better in all ways, as the tone of your inner core resonates with the frequency of positive pure energy. If it all sounds a little "flakey" and "new age-y," give it a try for 24 hours and let me know how you feel. As your "tone" changes and you begin to feel better, you will experience the manifesting gifts of synchronicity, where people, circumstances, situations and events seemingly line up naturally for you in beneficial, meaningful and coincidental ways because you are now attracting them into your experience. Albert Einstein once said, "There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
The DEEP Release Clear Mind Process is instrumental in allowing trapped emotions from negative past events to release-freeing us from the bondage of these entrenched neuro-chemical pathways and reactions within the brain and body. Once the highly charged negative emotions are erased, peace and calm reign and the transition into 4th dimensional thought and feeling is more easily achieved.
May you have greater peace and calm in your life always, until next time,
Dr. Mark Doyle. Dr. Doyle is a chiropractic physician with 37 years of clinical experience and great skills. He is a certified hypnotherapist registered with the State of Washington. He created and find tuned the DEEP Release Clear Mind Process over the past decade .
(Understand that this will be an effective procedure for lots of people but some folks will need professional care with their doctor. If you are depressed or have thoughts of suicide you want to report to the emergency room where you can be helped immediately. Depression should be handled with your doctor and not be dismissed or allowed to persist.)
