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Energize Your Life – Use Your Brain For A Change (Part 5)

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(…continued from last week)

Signals for Change

In order to better manage your brain and energize your life, I’m going to give you some action signals that tell you when it’s time to do something.

How do you know when it’s time? If you go to a doctor because you’re not feeling well what do they do? They look at the symptoms. Are you flushed? Do you have a fever? Is there pain somewhere in your body? Are there any abscesses or openings or cuts or wounds? What’s going on within you? Do you feel lethargic? Do you have energy? Do you not have energy? And so on. They look over you and they take all those symptoms that they can elicit and they diagnose.

Or if you take your car to a mechanic because you have a flat tire, they don’t first check your radiator to make sure it has water, see if the battery has water in it, go and make sure that the belts are tight on the alternator and so on. You’ve got a flat tire, they look, they diagnose the symptom of why it can’t go down the road because it has a flat tire and they fix it.

So I am going to give you some action signals that will tell you it’s time to do something; things to be aware of. In my mind one of the first, and a major symptom, or a major signal, is fear.

Fear can go from being slightly concerned about something to absolutely terrified. Fear is really just a signal to pay attention. Some fears are red stop lights, most of the time it’s not. Most of the time fear is a yellow caution light. It means pay attention, something’s going on that’s knocked you out of your comfort zone.

What is it? Evaluate it, notice what’s going on, be prepared for what you see coming down the road at you. It’s a yellow light, not a red or green light. What fear says is, “I need to take action or I at least need to prepare.”

I need to make a decision or make a plan about what I’m going to do about this next step, or the next stage in my life. I need to make these decisions that are going to help me move forward because fear can absolutely knock you to your knees. It can incapacitate you almost faster than anything.

Fear is a normal reaction; feeling anxiety, feeling a bit of worry, feeling some of those things. Those are absolutely normal emotions. All it means is pay attention; be prepared, make some decisions.

Another one, another signal we need to pay attention to, is frustration and anger. Frustration is wanting something and not getting it. That’s why you get frustrated. Anger is because you wanted something and now you are demanding that you get it.

Paramahansa Yogananda years ago stated, “Anger comes from thwarted desires.” That was probably the very first quote I ever memorized. Anger comes from thwarted desires. Think about it. If you’re angry, why are you angry? You wanted something. Something stopped you. You’re demanding you get it. You’re mad.

There are six steps to getting angry. The first step is ‘I want my way’. When you don’t get what you want it’s just frustrating.

The second step is ‘something is stopping or blocking me’. You, it, something else is stopping or blocking me. Step two. That also is only frustrating.

Anger begins when you move into step three, and step three rapidly escalates onto step six. Step three is a demand. It’s like pounding on the table, it’s demanding, “I must have my way!” I must have it. I must have the lollipop. I must have my boss agree with me. I must be able to do this, whatever it is. It’s a demand.

Step four is finger pointing or blaming. You are bad or wrong for not giving me what I want. It’s a bad thing and you’re the reason why, or it’s the reason why. It’s a finger pointing blaming piece.

The fifth one is you, they or it deserves to be punished because you’re not giving me what I want.

And the sixth one is ‘I’m going to punish you’. Frustration and anger go hand in hand. You can get frustrated and not move into anger. But once you move into anger you’ve taken the whole game up an entirely other level.

Some standard, or something you wanted to have happen has blocked you and you are demanding that it change. Get over yourself. Go ahead and be ticked off for awhile because you didn’t get what you wanted but let it go. Move beyond it, it isn’t worth it. It can ruin your health if you let it go too far for too long.

(to be continued…)


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