A Method to Soothe Oneself Into a Better Feeling Place

A Method to Soothe Myself Into a Better Feeling Place

And Move Up the Emotional Scale

When we understand that our purpose in life is to experience joy and love and to have a magnificent life, then we will want to know different ways to keep ourselves happy most of the time. Here is an exercise that has been most helpful to me over the years.

Step One: Write down the incident that is troubling you. For example: when you broke my favorite dish……….

 Step Two: State how you FELT. For example: I felt angry.

 Step Three: You then begin to write down, without editing yourself, answering this question…………..WHAT THIS HAS CAUSED ME TO REALIZE IS

 For example:

I am more attached to my dishes than I realized

I get upset quickly when people do not take good care of my things

I hate it when things I love get broken

I have some very nice things

I enjoy being around beautiful things

I love knowing that there are so many beautiful things in the world

I am committed to surrounding myself with beauty.

Even though my favorite dish broke, I know I can replace it.

I will get over this loss soon.

I understand these things happen

I am feeling better about this already

I actually am excited about buying a new dish now

I can hardly wait to start looking.

 So you can see here, that in a very short span of time I have moved from anger into a feeling of excitement and anticipation of my next shopping trip where I can begin to look for my new dish.

If you do this exercise anytime you are feeling low about something, you can move into a good feeling quickly and easily.

 Remember that the most important thing that we need to do each day is to get ourselves into a good feeling place. Enjoy this process. And if you would like to learn more go to the book “Ask and It is Given” by Jerry and Esther Hicks. Or if you find you are continually in a low feeling place, call me and I can help you release what is holding you back and help you move into feeling better.

 You can reach me Joanie McMahon at 403-675-9300. Joanie is a trained counselor and an accredited Journey work therapist.

 

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