Releasing Tension and
Negativity
Different faces,
different places but the exact same experience. Ever felt that way? Of course
you have. We all did at one point one way or another when we had no prior
knowledge how to think with deliberate intent. We often react by what we
observe. We not only react, we trigger off negative emotions almost instantly
whenever something unpleasant is thrown our way. That's because your train of
thoughts creates your current conditions. Because you are what you think about.
The only way to change that experience is to decide you want to change your
pattern of thoughts.
This is the perfect
time to learn how to release the stress, built-up tensions and of course, the
destructive negativity that more often than not revolves around "big"
and heavy subjects like family, friends, work and even romance. Working our
mental state of being (emotions and feelings) alongside meditation will allow
you to recognize negative thoughts that crosses your way and sharpen your
ability to snap back in control to stop reacting.
But rather, learn
to stop for a minute, pause and observe with a solution-oriented mindset
intending not to ignore, but to meet ourselves halfway to find a way
"out" of the situation and work it to our best advantage. Instead of
having it work against us, regardless of the current conditions that are most
probably less than ideal in that moment. It paves a way and frees us from
producing a negative emotion instantaneously but leaves a larger "leeway"
for a good buffer of time to contemplate and solve. Eventually, it will just
feel like a bump in the road every time you hit a curb.
At the early stages
when the anger comes fast and hard, it is also the best time to practice
recognizing your emotions and be extra aware of how it physically caused you
"pain" in that very moment just feeling all that anger rushing
through. Does it hit you hard face down in the chest with a hard thump, or you
find yourself clenching your fist so tight you almost broke your knuckle bones?
You can then start
to put what you have learned to test and take really deep exaggerated breaths
and see how fast and quickly you are able to release that large amounts of
tension just deliberate thinking (switching to the best possible thought you
can pull out of your thinking box) and also match that breathing with the
release of your "pain" you have felt initially. You may feel your
chest slowly releasing its tight grip on your heart and you must remember how
it felt initially in order for you to know how quickly you are able to release
it the next time round.
Self-awareness is
practiced too and we always sweep it under the rug and treat it as a
"fleeting moment" but negative feelings lingers around for a long
time if you don't "deal with it" there and then. Over time, if you
stack these "overdue negative emotions" long enough it causes
permanent damage not only to your mind but it also becomes detrimental to your
physical body with all these "pent-up" issues unresolved.
Don't be afraid to
face it in that moment when it comes, because the quicker you recognize it, the
faster you will learn how to snap out of it when it happens again. You also
leave more room for positive light to flow into your experience. You don't
"clog up your pipes" with negativity. Awareness of happy emotions
comes so easy because it feels good to experience it but awareness of
negativity is essential and serves as stepping stones to sift and sort out the
clutter during you meditative processes. If you "tolerate" pain and
unpleasant emotions for too long, you become numbed to it and that is
definitely not a good thing.
You will block
yourself from experiencing positive emotions to its fullest heightened
potential. You need to be able to recognize negative emotions so that it
becomes crystal clear-cut which belongs to their rightful category and it comes
as second nature to you, when you are choosing your thoughts while meditating.
You will be "addicted" to feeling good basking with the best feeling
thoughts and experiences and you will never ever look back or settle for less
to leave room for extra negativity in life from this moment forward when you
have attained a practiced mind that knows better.
This is a book
specially written with my deep love nurtured for diversity, growth and
development to uplift, inspire and lead you one step closer to living the life
that is free of emotional struggles towards your health, relationships, food
and everything that matters most to you learning how to make the shift in your perspective
towards negative circumstances and living your life out to its fullest
potential.
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