Our Emotional and Physical States

Today I caught a whiff of perfume while at work and it reminded me of a time and place from about eight years ago.  This flash caught me way off guard and made me think of how different my life is from eight years ago.  It totally changed my state of mind and reminded me how something so small as a scent can totally interupt my emotional and physical state at any time of the day, under just about any circumstance.

I’ve read a few of Tony Robbins books and listened to his Personal Power cd’s (I still listen to those cd’s every once in a while.)  I would recommend Tony Robbins to anybody, he really helps you realize just how much control we have over our lives and our physical and mental states.  It’s one of the best lessons I’ve learned in my life about myself.  I try to use it every day at work and at home.

I can give a few quick examples of how we have control over our lives.  My sister was visiting last year and she was complaining that she had a headache.  We were at a cousins house visiting and she was displaying all the classic signs of a young girl being bored and wanting to be somewhere else.  Sitting low with her shoulders hunched, a frown on her face, just overall not enjoying herself.  I told her I could get rid of her headache.  She didn’t believe me but she did agree to do anything I asked her to do to get rid of her headache.  So I took her to an open area in the house and I told her to do ten jumping jacks.  You remember jumping jacks right?  You stand straight with your arms at your sides and jump straight up landing with your legs spread apart and your hands above your head.  Then you jump straight up again and land in your original position.  Repeat ten times.

Now, if you tell any adult to do ten jumping jacks out of the blue they are going to think you’re insane.  And it will immediately effect whatever emotional state they are in.  Telling someone to do anything silly will have that effect.  It works on just about anything.  What if you stood up wherever you are at right now and did ten jumping jacks?  The idea alone probably makes you feel silly.  There could be several factors in play for you.  Who would see you?  Do you even have room to do them?  I bet if you are in an emotional state of being depressed or stressed out, doing ten jumping jacks would totally change your mood.  So why don’t you just do them?  I bet if you were in a physical state of being tired, or just not having any energy, ten jumping jacks would change that to.  The rush of blood and adreniline from doing that physical activity would make it impossible to keep feeling that way.  You might be a bit winded from it if you’re out of shape but you would feel different.

I’m not saying the ten jumping jacks are important.  The important part of changing your physical or emotional state is deciding that you want to change it right now.  If you are feeling down about something, or depressed, or stressed, it’s because you want to feel those things!  Tony Robbins told me so.  And he was right.  He spends a lot of time in his books and cd’s basically trying to convince his readers of the same thing.  We have control of our states for the most part.  And we can change our physical and emotional states at whatever time we choose to.

So, back to my sisters headache.  I made her do the ten jumping jacks and her headache dissapeared.  Basically it went away because she didn’t have time for that stupid headache anymore, she was to busy feeling silly about doing ten jumping jacks, then she had a rush from the actual physical activity of doing them.  Of course, as soon as she sat down and went back to being bored, her headache came back.

Living in the United States of America, we have endless opportunities and anyone can become anything they want to.  Want to be jobless and live on welfare?  No problem, we have that.  Want to be a multi-millionare with 4 houses and big stinkin’ boat?  No problem, it’s there for the taking.  All you have to do is want it and take action.