6 Tips to Conquer Discouraging Thoughts
and Feelings
No matter how positive we try to keep our thoughts, at times, we become discouraged.
The very word discouraged gives us a clue, both in where the problem exists and in what we need to do to resolve it.
To become discouraged is to face a situation without the courage and fortitude that you usually maintain.
Here are some simple tips to conquer your discouraging thoughts and feelings during these times of concern:
Tip 1:
To transcend this feeling, it is first important that we recognize that it is a feeling. Whereas thoughts have the power to create and transform our world, feelings are only fleeting expressions.
Tip 2:
It is important to let your feelings wash over you and then be released, without confusing them with thoughts or empowering them by believing they are a reality.
A feeling has validity only in the brief moment of time in which it is experienced and is not truth. It is only a feeling. To become discouraged implies that you have allowed your feelings to rob you of the courage and the enthusiasm that fuels your life adventure.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The simple understanding of the nature of our feelings and the ability to differentiate them from our more powerful force, thought, is an important step in helping us use the creative power of our thoughts positively.
Our human nature is to jumble our thoughts and feelings together, mixing them up and then all too often, granting a feeling more gravitas than it deserves.
Tip 3:
To define the difference between feeling and thought is an important step in limiting the influence and scope of a negative experience, without denying or ignoring it.
By accepting and acknowledging a feeling, even and especially a negative feeling, and then limiting it to its true scope, we are empowering our life. This allows the positive aspects of the principle of “energy follows thought” to be harnessed for the power and control of our intention.
If we experience the emotion (in this example dis-couraged) and then acknowledge that it is a feeling, we can let it flow over us without harm. Experiencing the feeling and then releasing the feeling, prevents you from being trapped in your feelings.
Tip 4:
Emotion, by its very nature, comes and dissipates very quickly, much like diving into a deep pool of water. Like a dive, you enter deeply into the emotional waters for a brief minute and like a dive, it is important to rise out of the waters so you can take a new breath and bathe in the sunlight.
It is when you take this fleeting experience of emotion and empower it with your thoughts, and all too often your fears, that you feed your fears. Living in fear of the future or past brings you out of the present moment and creates the problems of negativity in your life.
When a feeling is kept within the confines of the present, you can experience it without it causing harm.
– Genevieve Gerard
If immediately upon recognizing a negative feeling you identify it as a feeling, not repressing it, but releasing it immediately as feelings are by their nature designed to do, you begin your mastery of life. If you then put the feeling into a reality or truth test, you are well on your way to conquering your fears.
Tip 5:
If you ask yourself the questions, “Is this the truth?”, “Is this real?”, “Is this what I think or only what I feel?”, you are well on your way to releasing any negativity or damage that having the emotion can do.
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This little exercise to determine the difference between what is real and what is unreal can be done in just a few seconds. This reality check then frees you from the tyranny of believing that what you are feeling is reality, while still honoring and respecting the validity of a feeling, as only a feeling.
To distinguish between thoughts and feelings and to then master the thought so the negativity is not empowered to sabotage your life is a powerful tool. Learning to harness your command of your feelings puts you in the co-creator role in the universe, under the principle that “energy follows thought.”
Practicing these tips and techniques and understanding these principles, are an important step in life mastery. Use them well. Practice them often.
Tip 6:
You can transform, transmute and transcend any and all negative emotions. To do this, it is important that you acknowledge the feeling while you also acknowledge your mastery over it by letting it have its moment, but not giving it the additional power of thought and especially fear.
In my “Feeling Free” guided meditation, I give an in-depth explanation of a very powerful technique to move your energy from feeling to resolution.
It is a technique that once learned can be practiced anytime and anywhere to gain mastery over your most troublesome and limiting emotions.
It is a technique that earlier in my journey I used many times in a day. It is a technique that I use frequently in my life now. To use awareness to move, transcend, transmute and transform the strong emotions of fear and anger, gives you freedom in your life.
This technique is one I have found to be so important in empowering people that I created a simpler and shorter version “I Am Feeing Free.”
To be able to experience your emotions without letting them take over your life is a key to mastering whatever challenges come your way. It is a strength that frees you to become all that you are meant to be.
These tips and techniques help you be in the NOW and embrace the new possibilities and opportunities that life brings before you without the burden of your fears, or limiting beliefs that have entrenched themselves from old feelings that can be released and resolved
You can have your emotions, freely without them creating problems and limitations that linger beyond their moment of time.
I encourage and invite you to conquer any discouraging thoughts while you experience and express your emotions, but remain the director and designer in charge of your life.
Namaste,
Genevieve Gerard
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About the author:
Genevieve Gerard teaches Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened Soul awareness. She helps you experience the joy that results from the spontaneous “touch of your soul.”
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Genevieve has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Theology and a Master of Arts Degree in Counseling and for over thirty years has worked one-on-one with people who were recovering from devastating disabilities and chronic pain. Teaching the mastery of the mind-body relationship she was one of the early professionals trained in biofeedback, visualization, imagery, and meditation as essential techniques to help people heal their bodies, heal their emotions, heal their minds, and heal their lives.
Genevieve’s work demonstrates what she knows so well, “It is spiritual connectedness that triggers physical healing and emotional and mental well-being.” Helping people, like you, tap into your higher-self is the power she wields to guide you to heal and transform your life.
Now, with this understanding, she combines the effective techniques she developed over decades teaching mind-body mastery along with her extensive experience in meditation and spiritual development to create a synthesis of mind-body-spirit that delivers complete healing and opens the door to unlimited personal growth and an encounter with your Soul.
In addition to her current life guidance coaching sessions, and workshops performed around the world, Genevieve has produced more than 20+ guided meditations in the last eight years that are available on Apple Music (iTunes), Amazon, CDBaby, and her website.
It is her vision that through your experience with the techniques of awareness, visualization, and meditation, the love of your Soul will touch and transform your life through her writings and products. It is her sincere desire that the potential of a life of joy and celebration that seems to elude so many people can become a reality for you, now and forever.
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Last updated 3-11-2020
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