Just Finished DAY FIVE of Tony Robbins Personal Power Program: what people really want in life is to change one of two things: either the way they feel about something (e.g., to move from being frustrated to confident, from sad to happy, from depressed to emotionally strong) or they want to change a behaviour (e.g., to stop smoking or drinking, to start taking massive action, to exercise and enjoy it, to follow through on their commitments). But the only reason we want to change our behaviours is we’re hoping that if we lose that weight, stop procrastinating, take that action, we’ll feel good. Everything human beings do is merely an attempt to change the way they feel, to “change state.” Moment to moment, what we do is powerfully shaped by the state we’re in. When we’re in a frustrated state, we tend to behave very differently than when we’re feeling confident or excited or determined. One of the most important things we can do to create the power, joy, and passion we really want in our lives is to learn to manage our states of mind. You can do this immediately through two primary vehicles, the first of which is physiology.* 1. You can change how you feel instantly by changing the way you move, breathe, use your facial expressions, or make any new demand on your body. 2. The state you’re in determines your behaviour and also your performance. If you want to change your performance in anything, business, sports, relationships, etc.—the first thing to do is to change your state. In any situation, if you put yourself in a peak state you will be able to utilize more of your true capabilities in life. 3. Remember, you’re always responsible for your own states. After the next few days of learning, you won’t just be responsible; you’ll know how to quickly and easily change how you feel about virtually anything and move yourself into peak performance at will. Here’s how to use your physiology to manage your state. 1. Move your body differently, and develop some “power moves” deliberate, strong, unhesitating movements that give you an immediate sense of certainty. You can also use your voice to put yourself in a peak state. Speak stronger, more rapidly, with a bit more volume from deeper in your chest than you usually do. 2. Changing your breathing can immediately change your state. Deep, diaphragmatic breaths create radically different emotional states than shallow breathing that begins in the upper chest. 3. Radical changes in facial expressions will immediately change the way you feel. 4. Changing elements of your diet can maximize your health and energy. 5. All of these put together can make significant changes in the patterns of the emotional states you experience day to day. Here’s how to develop the ability to put yourself in a passionate state instantly. 1. Invite a friend or business associate to participate in an “experiment.” Sit down together, and ask your partner to notice what you do with your physiology-face, voice, body, gestures, posture, etc. throughout the experiment. 2. Begin to talk about a subject you’re normally passionate about in an exaggeratedly dispassionate way, as if you don’t really believe in it, you don’t feel strongly about it. Pick something that normally does inspire you, but talk about it in an uninspiring way, and have your partner notice what you do with your face, your voice, your body, and your gestures. 3. Change your state radically. Get up, if necessary, and move around for a moment. 4. Now talk to your partner about the same subject with all the passion, joy, energy, and conviction you can muster. 5. Ask your partner to share with you some of the specific differences in how you moved, breathed, used your face, and used your voice, and record this in your journal. These are your biomarkers, the “triggers” that can cause you to feel passionate in the future. 6. Experiment today: At some moment when you’re calm or feeling negative, snap yourself immediately into a passionate state using what you learned from Step 5 above.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 05:29:40 +0000
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