Today we’ll talk about your own internal GPS. Once you discover the power of listening to your emotions, you’ll never be lost in the unknown anymore.
You have to trust your feelings.
The rule is very simple, if it feels good; you’re going in the right direction. If it doesn’t feel right, something has to change.
You have to be careful about what you change though.
I was once very unhappy at work and the most important thing to change was my attitude and thoughts towards my work – the solution was NOT to change job.
Of course, changing job can help too, as you can find more satisfying tasks or coworkers.
But if the dissatisfaction lives INSIDE you, in your own thoughts and programming, it will follow you everywhere you go!
So this means that feeling bad indicates you must change something WITHIN yourself.
I know, it can be very difficult.
You shouldn’t even necessarily aim at feeling good at first, simply trying to feel better might be a better goal.
Esther and Jerry Hicks, in their book Ask And It Is Given, list 22 emotional states which make a continuum you can progress on, from the worst to the best.
They say that the goal should be to simply entertain thoughts from the level above your current situation, not aim for the top of the scale right away
This is because results can take time to show up.
It personally took me roughly 6 months to start seeing noticeable results when I started working on improving my attitude.
Of course, I saw improvements even in the first week. But it went up, and down, and up, and down again.
So there are many encouraging periods where you see improvements, but there are also many periods when you wander if all your efforts are worth it.
Honestly, both periods can be a challenge. Because even when you are feeling better, it can be easy to slow down on your personal development exercises and slowly move back into your old paradigm.
So neither your progress nor your setbacks should deter you from persisting in your daily exercises.
The only single way to change your subconscious programming for better, more fulfilling thoughts is with TIME.
Some days you’ll feel you’ve made a tremendous jump forward, some days you’ll feel you’ve taken a step back.
That’s all surface work.
THE REAL STUFF IS HAPPENING DEEP DOWN YOURSELF, SLOWLY AND INCREMENTALLY.
You’re either slowly moving forward, or slowly moving backwards.
This is why I believe so much in the power of rituals: they are the main catalysts of change.
This is very deceiving because we don’t see how these small exercises change us from day to day.
It’s like writing a page a day for an entire year and realizing that we have an entire book written by the end of the year. It never felt like writing a book, and it surely is an easier process than giving ourselves the task of writing a book. Simply focus on the page you have to write today.
The book will write itself, as long as you are PERSISTENT.
This is also why listening to your emotions is very important because they are the indicator of whether you are moving forward or not.
Just like with the book, it’s hard to see if, overall, our year is moving forward or not.
As I said, some days will be good, some will be tough.
But you simply need to have faith that the good days will add up and will change your paradigm for one that is more open, joyous and peaceful.
Also consider reading my other articles on persistence.
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