Today I was led to take this book Good Vibes Good Life out by Vex King and led to page 57.

Initially when I read this page, immediately my thought was I need to study this to help my friend. As I continued reading, I realized I myself and everyone needs this too thus sharing it here.

Page 56 : Study Your Emotions

Ignoring negative emotions is like keeping poison in your system. Learn to understand everything that you feel. The aim isn’t to force positive thoughts, but to transform the negative ones into something healthier, so you can feel better.

I’m someone who always pushes away my negative thoughts and emotions. I’m just like that. So woah reading and learning this I realized to study my emotions really helps. Let’s go.

Our dominant thoughts significantly influence our emotions; they’re crucial to how we feel. The issue many of us have when we try to become positive thinkers is that we ignore the transformation process. We assume that it’s better to wipe out negative thoughts, numb our feelings and move on to more positive ideas. This is often ineffective because you’re just trying to trick yourself into thinking things are okay, when your true feelings suggest otherwise.

If a venomous thought sits deep within your mind, it will reappear when you experience a similar situation in the future.

So don’t suppress your negative emotions. Instead, transform them so you can raise your vibration not just now but for all similar events in the future. Understanding your emotions will allow you to transform them from a low vibration to a high vibration over and over again. This is why introspection (observation of one’s own mental and emotional processes) is so important to personal development.

How to Transform negative emotions :

1. Identify: to change your emotional state, you must identify what emotion you’re feeling.

2. Challenge: the next step would be to question yourself: why do you feel the way you do? What thoughts are responsible for this? At this stage, you have consciously begun to observe your thoughts. A lot of the beliefs we have are based on exaggeration, misconception and opinions imposed on us by other people. Therefore, we can challenge these erroneous ideas and judgements in our mind. We can analyse our thought processes and change our negative thought patterns to more positive ones, in a logical way.

Begin to challenge the beliefs behind your thoughts by questioning their validity. Ask questions that force you to dig deeper. You can also ask yourself extreme questions, because they’ll inspire extreme answers.

Posing questions to yourself can reveal limitations in your thinking. You’ll begin to realize that you have made false assumptions and focused on the negative aspects of situations in your life.

Try it. Perhaps bring up a past experience that made you unhappy, and ask yourself direct questions that help you get to the heart of the matter. We must challenge these conclusions. Failing to correct the negative lessons means they’re replayed in your subconscious mind. Over time, these lessons on repeat can weigh you down.

3. Understand: This step is about appreciating the deeper meaning behind the emotion. You must recognize the deeper meanings behind your feelings and make use of them as opportunities to grow.

4. Replace: These disempowering thoughts must then be replaced with empowering ones. You must ask yourself: How can I view or do things differently, to help myself feel better and live a greater life?

It’s essential to transform destructive thoughts into ones that make you feel better in the moment. Remind yourself that you are worthy, whole and loved.

5. Visualize: Visualize yourself handling the emotion you’re currently feeling – in the future. As you do this, not ony will your vibration increase, but you’ll also begin to create an autonomous association with that emotion that’ll enable your brain to handle it for you effortlessly down the line.

Repetition is the key to mastery. If you rehearse over and over again a situation in which you deal with the emotion, you’ll know exactly how to manage it next time it comes up in your life.

Hope this helps. God Bless!

Love,

Tracy Immanuel