[INTERACTIVE INSPIRATION EXPERIMENT] Could You Feel Better In Two Minutes? Find Out Now!
What you are about to read is an interactive Steemit post, designed to rapidly shift your emotional state within 2 minutes of reading.
Can I borrow your focus for just two minutes?
Whether you're feeling great, neutral, or straight up lousy - this quick inspiration experiment is designed to connect you to a better feeling state of being.
We always have a choice to feel how we want to feel, but we don't always know HOW to do that in the moment.
This short sequence of questions will guide you through that process in a quick and easy way.
For those who follow the five steps and share their experiences below, I will immediately upvote as a token of appreciation for taking the time to improve yourself!
Will you give it a shot?
Great! Read the quick guidelines below then follow the video or text sequence!
Let's do it!
Guidelines:
- There are five steps to complete this interactive sequence. Follow each step in the order it was presented.
- You will be asked questions: pay attention to the first and immediate thoughts and/or mental movies/images that come up for you.
- Immerse yourself within your inner experiences. Allow yourself to go there fully and completely.
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Step 1: How Do You Want To Feel Right Now?
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Step 1: How Do You Want To Feel Right Now?
The easiest way to determine how you want to feel is by observing how you are feeling right now.
If what you are feeling is NOT what you want to feel, choose a feeling that would counter that!
For instance, I'm feeling a sense of unworthiness, so in my video example I chose to experience worthiness.
You may know what you don't want to feel - but what emotion would you prefer to feel right now?
Do you have an emotion? Great, continue to step 2!
Step 2: Access A Memory That Embodies This Emotion
Now, with that emotion you want to feel in mind, think about a time when you experienced this emotion?
What was a time that you thought, felt, talked, or behaved in a way that really embodied this emotion?
As you access this memory, what did you see? What did you feel? What did you hear?
Did you taste anything at the time? Or smell anything in particular?
Tune into these aspects as much as possible.
As you do, move to step 3.
Step 3: Access Your Imagination
What would it be like if you could experience this emotion as an everyday resource?
What would things look like, sound like, and feel like if you fully and completely stepped into this emotional state?
Allow yourself to go there fully and completely.
What is that like?
When you feel like you've really imagined what that would feel like, head to step 4.
Step 4: Express The Emotion Through Your Body
Now stand up right now.
Real quickly, just stand on your two feet, it's really important!
In order to integrate this emotion in your body, we're going to let our body move with it.
When you think of this emotion, let your body move as though you really feel it.
In example...
...if I'm truly feeling worthy I might clasp my hands over my chest.
...if I'm feeling excited I might jump in the air and yell "yes!"
...if I'm happy I might raise my hands in the air and make a big smile.
Do some physical movement that really emobidies the emotion you want to feel.
Once you do, you have finished!
Step 5: How Do You Feel?
Congrats! You have completed this interactive inspiration experiment.
Do you feel any differently right now?
Notice that change.
Do you feel better? Do you feel worse? Do you feel the same?
Share in the comments below what your experience was!
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Excellent post my friend. Mindfulness, connecting negative thoughts with positive memories. Re-mapping the mind. This could be a good exercise, or do this when those negative thought-loops come to town. Mental health is no different than physical health. You have to work at it everyday like you would with weights or cardio. I'm researching this topic, with psilocybin and how it can re-map/re-wire the brain, flip-flopping these types of negative thought-biases and connecting them with positive stimulus.
Very cool @therightsideofup! I haven't done any personal psilocybin adventures but I have explored ayahuasca and I can personally say it's been incredibly beneficial for my mental and spiritual health. Definitely something the world will adopt in the future. For now, us trailblazers will just have to suffice ;-)
This is a fantastic experiment. What do you think about the love emotion in general? I have been having some great experiences with it and the knowledge I've been learning about how powerful it is.
I had a similar post today in regards to simplicity. One easy trick/hack to increase brain capacity. Would love to hear your thoughts on that also.
@bitdollar the love emotion is so interesting to me as it comes in so many forms. I think it's easily mistaken for attachment...which isn't actually love imo. True love, to me, is the ability to enjoy something without holding onto it. Life can be an eternal state of love when we are willing to let go of everything.
I will check out your simplicity post right now!
I read in a book recently that love is a background emotion and not how we typically think of it. Which I think has some truth. I agree with you that it has many forms. It is not something we hold on to but something that is there. Love that! Thanks @axios!
Wow! This is amazing. Tried it two minutes ago, looking for some peace. Loved it! I will save it for the future. Thank you so much for posting! :)
Awesome! So glad you enjoyed it @dreamdiary :)
This is a great process and a reminder that you can change everything in just a few moments. Everything we do in life is ultimately about how it makes us feel.
Exactly. We place emotional value on everything. Crypto is a great example of that!
@axios WOW this is truly amazing! I am glad you stopped by and left a comment on my post if not I wouldn't have seen this one.
The idea of knowing how to change a state of a person have been tossed around for years but to break down that abstract thoughts into something so layman isn't easy. Good work! (: Followed
@cryptoneil I really appreciate that. It's definitely my focus to do so as I've read a ton of literature and have practiced it myself for years, but I would get caught up in complexities that weren't necessary! Simplicity is the key ;-)
Really glad we have connected here. Wishing you the best, friend!
Excellent. Many congratulations
Thank you @josemedina!
This is a great post @axios! I actually use a very similar series of steps to feel amazing. This is something that I've picked up from Tony Robbins and through daily meditation. Meditation really helped me hone these feelings and I can start a session with 1 emotion and end the session with an amazing feeling that I can essentially hand-pick out of my own brain and experiences. Thanks for sharing this and keep up the good work building your community, I can hear the passion and enthusiasm in your voice!
@khaleelkazi, totally hear you there on meditation. It really does help to understand the root of an emotion. I was discussing this with another steemian the other day that sometimes shifting your emotional state takes time, and in my opinion, that's because we first need to understand how we feel and the underlining meaning of that feeling. Once we truly feel it and accept it, then we are free to move and change as we wish.
Thanks for sharing that! Really appreciate your kind words as well. Cheers friend!
Thank you for this post! Unworthiness comes up for me a lot, its a story that I've written into my life but I can't pinpoint where it came from. I have done A LOT of work this year through yoga and the Embody Love Movement to move through some of that rubbish.
Becoming aware of the times I drift into that space has really helped me. I know notice when I do it and have set conditions to pull me out of it or re-direct my path. I am worthy of everything that I have worked so hard for and I need to stand in my own light, not be afraid to be seen and while I'm learning to embrace the feeling of that light, it still makes this introvert a little anxious to step in.
It's ALL yoga and thats what keeps me going back on my mat. It always feels better to have the sun on your face than the shadow, but without the shadow, we would never appreciate the sun!
Ah I love this @k10yoga! I think that understanding our true worth is a life long process. It's quite an epic journey for sure! And like you said, the shadow of unworthiness is what allows us to appreciate the light of our worth! My name "axios" actually means "worthy". I seek to discover the worth that exists in myself as it does in you!
Really glad to have connected. I have followed you @k10yoga! Gonna celebrate with a cat-cow right now lol
I love you! I did this and I chose Joyful and I'm so giddy right now! It's similar to somatic experiencing. I share this kind of thing with people too! This is one of the best posts I've seen. I love the PARTICIPATION. You're rocking this! REsteemed
Wow @lilastar! Thank you so much for the profoundly positive response here. I really appreciate the feedback. Makes me feel so great :) And so awesome to hear you are sharing this with people too! Followed :)