Someone just sent
me a promo on a digital drug to boost mood: All Natural High, and I'm
responding to it with this post.
I thought I had seen enough natural ways to reverse diabetes, but this, I tell
you, is out of this world.
I got interested in human potential while I was still in secondary school. At
that time, I believe I had minimal resources and access to them from the
school's library. On top of that, I had not met like-minded folks who I could
share my passion with.
Maybe I was working under the radar these days.
Maybe...
I got my hands on a few psychology books and communication books.
They were textbooks!
What can you really expect from textbooks other than arguments, data, and pure
info? As I look back, I think what I did back then was really dull.
As time passes, and as I enter a higher education institution, I have more
access to what I was looking for. Not only that, I had my own money to play
with. I had enough money to purchase and keep the resources I managed to
acquire. Bookstores all around town became my favorite hangout.
I finally came across Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins...
That book, and thank Allah it is not a textbook, introduced me to what controls
peak performance.
"There are only two," said Robbins, "the state you are in and
your physiology."
He then describes instances of how these two work.
I gather, now, that mood is actually the mental state you are in.
Your mental state is your mood.
From there, he introduced a few exercises that you can try to change your
mental state or your mood.
You want to give it
a go?
If you do, let's try this simple exercise...
Be aware of the mental state you are in right now.
Suppose you want to make yourself happy or joyful.
So, here's what you're going to do:
1) Think back to a time when you were truly happy. It can be a
recent one or some times ago. Pick one.
2) Relive the experience. Notice everything about it: is it a movie in your
head? Is it words that you hear? Music? Any action going on? Etc. Notice
EVERYTHING.
3) Take another experience which you feel the lower intensity of happiness or
joy, and you want to make it more intense.
4) Match the quality of this "less intense" experience and compare it
to the "intense" experience. How did they fare?
5) Change the quality of the less intense experience to match the emotional
experience. If the fierce has more actions, add actions into the less severe
experience. Do so with other qualities that you've noticed earlier. Notice how
you feel now? Are you happier? Keep changing and tweaking until you get the
feeling you want.
6) Test your experience. If you think about the less intense experience now,
after you have changed its qualities, does your feeling change?
That's how Unlimited Power taught people to change their mood (mental state).
Another strategy is to use your physique, or it's called physiology. This
strategy is fast and precise.
For example, can you feel down when you keep your chin up and smile from ear to
ear?
Try it now.
Can you feel down?
Of course, it's hard to feel down.
Your body will respond accordingly to how your position your body.
That's basically how to control mental state using your body.
That's how I understand the mood and how I gain its knowledge. But today, the
digital drug got me intrigued. I had to record my thought and see if I can
speculate what it's all about. The best way is to get my hands on the drug and
evaluate it.
But perhaps, I've known it all. It could be the same with what I've known from
Unlimited Power and Tony Robbins.
I think I'll pass...
The digital drug to boost mood could have been IN me all the while.
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