When Life Throws You Lemons

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When Life Throws You Lemons

What will you do if you’re trapped in an environment you do not want to be in? What if you’re sick and tired of your job? What can you do? Is it possible to take inspired and motivated action to survive your present situation and live the life you always dreamed off? It will not be easy. You will have to come out of your comfort zone, discover potentials and opportunities waiting for you. You have to conquer your fear and take calculated risks. You have to stay focused and persevere despite the difficulties you will encounter. Success does not come easy. It takes heart, passion and time. Experience is also a factor. The learning you get in your journey becomes your rock-solid foundation.

You have to work harder, dig deeper and sacrifice more to attain your ambitions, but you do not have to hit the world and feel bad when you encounter difficult situations. Remember the Law of Attraction, whatever you focus on, you attract. Create your mental and emotional strengths. Not everyone believes this, but you only discover your true emotional and mental strength when the chips are down. Emotions dominate our actions and reactions even though we do not want it to happen sometimes. Society often sees emotion as a sign of weakness, so people are used to putting them aside and focusing on rational aspects instead.

No matter how strict and logical you may be, you will always feel. One way or another, someone or something will get through to you. Positive emotions are a lifelong goal for many of us concerned about emotional health and self-improvement. What is more important, the amount of money you made during your life or the times you laughed out of sheer joy? One negative feeling needs between three to five positive feelings to neutralize it. People tend to put their positive emotions behind their negative feelings. This is rather the biggest problems that people come across during their lives. There is no clear way to ignore a negative experience and try to replace it with a positive one. Life does not work that way. For example, when you’re a child and your pet dog dies, you would be heartbroken. Your father will probably buy you another dog but the sorrow is still there.

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Things get even more complex when you become an adult. A fight with your spouse the night before will affect your entire day. You will go to work angry and tired and your mind will wander. On the way home from work, you will not notice the sun shining. You will not be tempted to stop at a roadside stand to pick up some fresh fruits and vegetables. All of this is because one negative thought has contaminated the way you perceive the reality around you. You will realize finding a safe place to relax, your mind will do wonders for your emotional and mental state. That place is relatively easy to find. It can be an actual place or an imaginary location. The best idea is to immerse yourself in it totally. Let us say you have a problem on your mind that would not go away. You can do whatever it is that helps you get through that safe place.

Get caught up in the game. Your mind will drift away from the negative thoughts that dominated your last hours or days. It’s not processing a whole new kind of information. A safe haven can take many forms. It can be a song, movie, or even a person or animal. The main thing is to allow yourself to get completely immersed in this new activity. You might still get flashes of the problem every now and then. Ignore it and get even more absorbed in what you’re doing. When the bowling game or the song or the movie ends, you will abruptly return to reality. You probably want to retreat back to the safe place. Do not do it. The safe place is there only as a helping hand, not as a long-term solution to your life problems. It serves only as a form of therapy. You will return from your safe zone with an increased energy level.

You will feel better about yourself and gain more confidence. You will see that any issue can begin to be resolved. This is how a small escape from a harsh reality can improve your emotional and mental health. Take the time to replenish yourself daily. You can use self-hypnosis to enter a safe place. Self-hypnosis is a great tool for goal setting and self-modulation. Most people are surprised at how easy it is to learn self-hypnosis. Self-hypnosis, in turn, makes a lot of things much easier. Self-hypnosis is usually taught off as a person listens to an audio tape, MP3 or other mass-produced media. It’s intended to induce a willingness to absorb suggestions centered around a specific topic such as weight loss, stop smoking, so on and so forth. Unfortunately, this kind of hypnosis is generally prepared by someone you’ve never met.

 

The person being hypnotized is offered and presented unwanted and even unpleasant imagery and suggestions. For example, if you sunburn easily, the last thing you want to hear about is a slow walk on a sunny beach. In this case, the self in self-hypnosis means that you listen to it by yourself. How do you design a great hypnotic script? A great hypnotic script won’t necessarily be designed and created by the very person who ultimately uses it and benefits from it. Unlike the mass-produced hypnotic tape, this hypnotic script is made from the exact purpose you wish, including the precise words and phrases that mean the most to you. True self-hypnosis is thus crafted by the person who shoots his or her own needs. The benefits derived would only be accomplished with such a personal one of a kind hypnosis. In this case, the self in self-hypnosis means that you hypnotize yourself.

This is a short view of this self-hypnotic process. There are lots of variations of this method that have been used and these are the basic steps you have to go through in order to hypnotize yourself to accomplish great self-improvement. Position your goals from the most important to the less important. If possible, your goal should be measurable. For each goal, you should formulate fitting suggestions, which means you have to convert your goals into specific instructions to the subconscious mind on how to achieve or even feel each goal. Use the first minutes of your self-hypnotic session to get as relaxed as possible. Start your hypnotic initiation phrase by saying and repeating loud the hypnotic words you have chosen, thinking of these words or listening to a hypnotic tape or CD customized for your hypnotic and goal fulfillment needs. Apply the hypnotic suggestions you have made for reaching the specific goal you work with.

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Say them out loud or think of them or use the hypnotic tape or CD. Before you start up your hypnotic exercises, you should make a time schedule for it. Do your hypnotic sessions every day. Five minutes a day is often enough. Repeat your suggestions as often as possible during the day. Keep a diary so you can keep track of your progress and your emotional journey. Some steps to think about on your journey towards your designed life. Learn to be thankful for your current situation. See all the positive aspects and sides of it. Be enthusiastic. Be thankful for your boss, co-workers, your family, your friends and even strangers you meet on the streets. Think of what they’re teaching you. It may not be easy but nothing is possible with strong willpower. Maintain perspective so you can keep moving on to your dreams. Balance is the key. Dream and take some positive action to move you towards your goals. Take it one step at a time.

While you’re slowly starting on the long journey to success, be patient and be as enthusiastic as possible. Do not hurry up too much that you totally forget how to enjoy life. Appreciate the beautiful things that you will encounter on the journey. One day you will finally attain what you’ve always longed for. When the day comes, do not look down on those who belittled you. Forgive and forget. Stay humble. Do not criticize others when you see that you’re becoming more successful than they are. Try to help them. Inject a positive aura into their personalities. With your gift, you’ll yield those great or equal rewards. Are you ready to begin the journey? Start it with the courage and desire to improve your life. Survive and go through it with persistence, enthusiasm and positive thinking. Finish it with a resulting bang of accomplishment and with a desire to help others succeed as well. You’re not alone.

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