CHANGE IS GOOD......FEEL IT !!!

The Art of Processing Emotions

By Bart Sharp

Many of us spend hours regularly processing emotions that we experience in our lives. It is in the belief that if we come to a place of resolve with them that we would be happier and/or be more present in our lives. Processing emotions is a skill that many have difficulty doing especially if they were not taught as children to identify what they were feeling. Millions have difficulty processing their emotions so if you perceive that you fit in this category do not feel alone.

Processing emotions is both an intellectual skill as well as a body experience. We may be able to express the emotion, recall the memory related to the feeling but have no real connection to it in our body. Which may make us feel disconnected to the experience itself as well as our own body.

Being able to perceive emotions includes feeling the whole experience in our physical body. It is feeling where our body feels uncomfortable when we are upset and all of our bodily reactions included. When we do this we teach ourselves to be more present in our body. The more we live with this kind of awareness anger does feel more intense but so does joy and happiness. We begin the process of leaving the life of muddled emotions where we feel little and remain in a mundane expression of our feelings to a fuller range of ourselves.

One of the keys to breaking out of the mundane life is learning to feel the emotions of our past. What we have suppressed emotionally is often one of the blocks that are holding us back from feeling ourselves. If we can tap into those energetic memories on a body level we can begin the process of releasing them for good. Our cognitive recall of these experiences only gives us the information from our mind we have to address what our body has stored away for them to really go.

What I have discovered is that so much of our daily anxieties, worries, angers, etc always have a source from our past. So when I experience the emotion I stop, sit down and feel it. The first step is to locate where you feel the distress in your body. If you cannot identify it in your body ask the consciousness of your body to turn up so that you can feel it. Or just ask your body, "Where is the sensation of this emotion located?"

Our bodies can do this. They are complex sensory organs that can give us massive amounts of information if we ask. It is important to know that the body wants us to uncover this stuff because it will be so much easier on it not carrying these stuffed emotions.

When we are able to identify the location of the sensation of the emotion sit and be present with it. Place your awareness to perceive the full intensity of the experience of it. Observe only, if we judge it we re-traumatize us to the experience, for example do not go into how bad it was. Even if a memory comes up just be present with it.
Once you perceive that you are in touch with the full energetic memory of the experience ask your body, "Is there a deeper source to where this emotion originated from?" Observe if another sensation shows up in your body, it may be in another location or even underneath where you have been working. Begin the process again of perceiving the full intensity of the energetic memory. Your presence with it will be the catalyst for its release.

When we release these experiences we will begin to feel a lightness in our body. It feels like energetic rocks are removed out of us giving way for a greater body awareness to begin that generally is perceived as feeling lighter. It is a part of the process of knowing yourself wholly.

As I go deeper in this process I find that sometimes I do need to cry to assist in grieving or hit or scream into pillows to release my rage more completely. When I do this I remain focused on the intensity of the energy in my body, I do not put my attention on the person that I am mad at such as imagining their face on the pillow. This is about identifying and releasing your own rage not projecting it out to someone. An important distinction.

What I have found is by using the tools of Access Energy Transformation I am able to release these repressed emotions more effectively. Access releases thoughts, beliefs and emotions on a cellular level. When it is used directly with the identification of the energetic emotional experience the release is very dynamic and permanent. I have seen my life change and witness huge transformational shifts in others by using these awesome tools.

When we begin to live in a place was we are not influenced by our repressed emotions we begin to live with a fuller presence in ourselves. We are no longer triggered by our past in our daily interactions. It is a wonderful freedom. We experience anger, sadness and happiness fuller from a more realistic perception.

Bart Sharp is an Access Learning Facilitator from Austin Texas. Through the years Bart has worked on variety of issues with individuals and groups. Bart likes the Access tools as they release people's limitations quickly and permanently. Explore our free audio and video library at http://www.bartsharp.com To learn more about access go to http://www.accessaustinenergy.com
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CHANGE IS GOOD.......YOU HAVE TO LET GO !!!

When It's Time to Let Go

By Yeo Teck Wei


"Man is free the moment he chooses to be" - Anonymous
Alfred was walking along the side of a cliff, when he suddenly slipped and fell. Desperately hanging on to the cliff with only one hand, he waited for help until a stranger came.
The man agreed to pull him up, but Alfred had to agree to one simple task. After Alfred promised him, the man put out his hand and said, "For me to pull you up, you have to let go of your hand first."
If it was you, will you trust him and let go ?
Letting go is tough. When you are weathering a rough patch, self-doubt and mistrust can cloud your heart and judgement. You don't know who to believe, and what to do next. You don't even know who you can count on during difficult times. In short, you feel helpless and insecure.
For people who have little self-confidence, it's time to let go of your inner fears. It's not easy, but necessary. Even if the entire world does not look down on you, so long as you don't believe in yourself, you will never have self-confidence. This is because people's perception of you can't change the way you think; only you have the power to change the way you think. To truly live life, first you have to have faith in yourself. This is a simple truth that few people know.
In our hearts there exists a prison, and it feeds on self-guilt, shame, and over-expectations. Some people choose to escape reality by imprisoning themselves there to numb their pain. They don't know it just makes their experience so much more painful... and they find themselves unable to escape from this prison. Eventually, they get trapped by their own past.
As a result, some people suffer for life because they can't forgive themselves for their past mistakes. Don't be like them! We can't change the past, and continual self reproach is not going to make a difference. If you really want to make amends, let go of your past. Stop thinking and start doing what really matters.
Redemption starts when you finally let go, and get on with life. Release the heavy burden chained to your soul, and let your spirit fly! When it's time to let go, it's time to let go.
Next time when you have doubts about yourself, just think: If you were Alfred, will you let go of your only hand on the cliff?


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CHANGE IS GOOD......DON'T EVER QUIT !!!

When adversity comes, and it will; Be encouraged. Without challenging trials, we will not develop the "thick-skin" and skills necessary to persevere.

Consider the following poem by C.W. Longenecker:

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low, and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don't you ever quit.

Life is strange with its twists and turns, As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about, when you might have won had you stuck it out;
Don't give up though the pace seems slow,
You may succeed with another blow.

Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
You never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit,
It's when things seem worse, that...
You Must NEVER Quit.

CHANGE IS GOOD......GET IN SYNC

Explosive Results Using This Key to Success!

By T Ryan

One of the keys to success which is very simple yet devastatingly effective when applied, is to simply make the same decisions everyday. If you take a look at any successful person they nearly always take this approach. If you make a decision to do something and state that thing as your goal you cannot expect for it to come to fruition overnight, it usually takes a period of time. During this time in order to reach that goal you will need to take action to achieve it. This is where your daily actions need to correspond with the decision you made in your mind.

As we are all three part beings operating in thought, word and deed, we need to have all of these consistently aligned in order to achieve results. If you think you have made a decision it still has no real power until it is acted upon, similarly it is no good simply talking a good game and not following through with action or with it not actually reflecting what your mind is thinking. When your thoughts, words and deeds are not aligned you will lack progress, motivation and may feel at conflict with yourself.

A very simple illustration of this would be someone who decides they want to become more healthy in their mind and even speaks about this to their friends but their actions do not reflect this. One day they will choose the banana and not the Mars bar, the next day they will chose the Mars bar, their actions are not aligned with their thoughts and words. To become healthy they need to everyday make the same decision on all three levels, thought, word and deed.

Because there are three levels to our beings which can be unaligned it is important to select a goal that is meaningful and that you really want to achieve on all levels. For some people a goal of being rich would fit nicely as a spoken decision but deep down they are not really motivated greatly by money but more so by helping people. Therefore inside of them they will suffer conflict, they can still be successful but they aren't as likely to be as motivated or persistent in pursuing it, there day to day actions may therefore suffer as a result.

The decisions you make today are creating your tomorrow, keep making the decisions on all three levels that correspond to your highest ideal until they come to pass.

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out..." -Robert, Collier

If this is starting to sound like to much effort, stop and have a think for a while. If you don't make an effort to set a goal and pursue it, well that's fine, time will pass anyway and your future will be created by your lack of decisions. Indeed lack of action is also a form of action so you are still creating your tomorrow. The question is do you want to be a conscious or unconscious creator of your world. Do you want a say in what happens in your future or not?

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt

Successful people make decisions and stick to them. It is said that the famous inventor Thomas Edison said it would take two weeks to invent the light bulb, however it actually took him around two years. Even through all the failed attempts he still stuck to his decision that he would invent a light bulb he continued rigorously and habitually each and everyday to achieve this goal. Lets look at how he did it on all levels:

1) Thought he decided mentally that it was a worthy goal that he wanted to achieve.

2) He expressed this desire by stating what he would create a light-bulb openly.

3) He took action daily towards his goal and didn't stop until he had achieved his aim.

Indeed this very process is what saw him create over one thousand American patents. Not a bad example of someone operating well aligned on all three levels. He is also quoted as saying:

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." -Thomas Edison

So, now you know the one of the simplest most easily applicable positive thinking and personal development tools around. Take a few moments to reflect upon if you are making the most of yourself. Do you have a goal? Are you pursuing it on all three levels? Are you making the same decisions on a daily basis to achieve it? Are you prepared to stick to it and persevere no matter what? If you can honestly answer yes to these questions then keep going! If not maybe it is time to make use of this very easy yet devastatingly effective technique. Noone can do it for you!


Author Tim Ryan provides FREE guidance and training on the power of positive thinking and personal development. View positive thinking articles, profiles tips and more by simply clicking: Personal Development or Positive Thinking now.
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