In my last post, Anyone Want To Smoke A Joint With Me? I talked about drugs being used to change ones state. I offered a few natural state changers and here, I will offer more.

Please refer back to the previous post to get started.

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No matter what is going on for you, there have been great things happen in your life. You must be willing to change your perception of things and see things as they really are.

If the bank is after you because you defaulted on a loan, it is not the banks fault. You defaulted. They trusted you enough to lend you money and now they want it back. That was the deal.

The minute you own it, take responsibility and become accountable, the elephant on your shoulders jumps off. Being responsible simply means the ability to respond. Blaming others keeps you in victim mentality and well, that is just pitiful.

Remember a time when you were a child, and you did something that went against your parents wishes to the point you knew inside it would really hurt them?

Go back to that feeling of heaviness in your chest, on your shoulders and remember how you as a person changed with this baggage. I would bet money, how you reacted to things also changed.

Perhaps you became evasive, defensive, or conversely, overly joyous, pleasant, to try to hide, escape what you did.

Either way, you were not yourself.

Now, remember when you got busted. As much as the punishment may have been painful, it paled in comparison to the relief you felt getting that weight off your shoulders. I would also safely bet, the weight was instantly lifted the exact moment you got found out.

This example should leave you to conclude that facing reality is so much easier in the end, than running from it, hiding from it and covering it up.

I would like you to go to that feeling you had of relief. Notice your body relaxed, your breathing is no longer restricted and whatever other changes occur, including your thoughts.

Focus in on all the changes your body has made from the initial feeling of hiding something to this calm relaxed feeling.

This is one other way to change your state. Noticing in yourself what you do, how you hold your body, what you say to yourself when things aren’t good.

Doing the same now with things that are exactly as you want them. Feel the changes in your body, thoughts and posture.

The next time you begin feeling down and out, reflect back on the positive changes your body made/makes and mimmic them. It works every time!

So, if your breathing was full deep breaths, than breath the same way. If you stood straight, shoulders back, stand that way, while breathing full deep breaths. If you had a smile, do all three things at once, and so on.

This works and it works every time. Although there are many techniques, these are a really good start.

Now you see, you don’t need that bag of weed anymore to change how you feel. You can feel any way you want by going back to a time when you experienced it, and do what you did then.

As I mentioned in the last post, these techniques are used widely in Hypnosis. The only difference in doing it yourself is the willingness to take the time to focus and do the work yourself.

Hypnosis allows you to be guided, follow along and doing so while completely relaxed with little or no interference from your conscious mind, which makes the process much simpler and quicker.

Please leave me a comment on how this worked for you, I would love to hear!