EMOTION MANAGEMENT BY EASY TO DO PHYSIOLOGICAL TRIGGERS
USING THE POWERFUL PHYSIOLOGY-PSYCHOLOGY LOOP!
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This is powerful! Do not underestimate it! Try it, to see the results! And then use it as a primary tool (not a secondary back up).
Have the key ones memorized and completely ready for when you need them, and your life control and self control will increase substantially.
If you try to think your way out of a bad mood, your chances of success are not great. But if you use a physiological tool, your chances of success increase dramatically. In some cases, there is a 100% success factor.
We can use simple, very doable physical movements to actually help manage our psychology and our emotions.
I am not saying to do this without using psychological management and triggers, but at times where it is difficult for us to "think" to overcome emotions, resorting to physiology could be the answer!
Psychological triggers - Technically, a psychological trigger is not thought of as being "physiological", but all emotions and psychology and connects through the body. If you ask "what would my role model do in this case", your physiology will change to better match that of the role model (or whomever you've chose to think like). If you think of being a Navy Seal, your physiology could shift such that you are more likely to have "invulnerability thinking".
Of course, it is essential that you remove the naysayers from being around you, as they actually reduce your physical power (as in kinesiology where one's arm strength declines substantially just from a negative statement, which might have been thought of as "harmless" or trivial).
For every thing you want greater power in (such as challenges, craving sweets, being lazy, etc.), you can have ready a model of a person for you to morph into (or at least seek his/her level).
Posture: Standing tall with good posture and a power pose (hands on hips, etc.) will alter one's mood and even one's testosterone level (proven).
Exercise: Exercise is a super winner! It grows new brain cells, provides good feeling endorphins, raises one's metabolism for quite a while afterwards (the size of the effect depends on time and intensity of the exercise), raises one's mood, plus a number of other short term stabilizers and strengtheners, not to mention the long term effects! You can't lose by using exercise. If feeling groggy or slow in morning, say, just move and breathe deeply (or take a cold shower)
Instead of doing willpower from a low power position or trying to overcome your low willpower state of your brain by using your brain when it is pretty much shut down, do an easy physiological move. (My most reliable one is to hop on my home treadmill, even at a starting, unenergetic slow speed, for 5 to 10 minutes ....
The idea is to do the physiological to get you into a good enough power state to do the willpower.
See the Physiology Of Power - and also use Tony Robbins Yes! or other power moves (such as Tiger Woods "power fist").
Breathing is not only a result of what is going on in our bodies and/or minds, but it is a means of communicating back on the loop. The simple mind associates slow, deep breathing with "safety", so choosing to breathe deep slow relaxing breaths will calm the mind (and reduce "agitation").
Relaxation: This will start the process of letting go of the energy sapping tension that one often unknowingly holds in life, especially when a person is always "bracing" for action when in a constant state of anxiety.
Through physiological moves, including napping or meditating for a moment, I can control myself so that I virtually never am or remain tired or in low willpower or low energy. I know it is vital that I maintain (and/or return very fast) in a well-functioing state (of homeostatis) that I call the Power Zone. (That reminds me, I think I'll take a power nap now, as I notice some "offness" and a feeling of tiredness around my temples...)
