When You Wake Up Feeling Blue
We have all had them, the occasional morning when instead of awaking with the joy and promise of a day opening to new opportunities, you just feel blue.
Feeling blue might be the residual of some now-forgotten dream, fear, discomfort, or anxiety. It could be the result of some pollen in the air that leaves you a little clogged up. It might even be something someone said to you yesterday that troubled you, subtle enough to pass without conscious notice.
Logic and analysis can tell you that today is no different from any other day in your life except for this amorphous feeling of sadness.
Because you are feeling this way, for no specific reason it is easy to let this feeling grow and escalate. It is all too tempting to be caught up in your gloominess.
You could let yourself sink into and ruminate upon you sorrows until you can release it all with a little cry. The little cry can be healing, but most of us feel silly to sit and cry over nothing.
What You Can Do When You Wake Up Feeling Blue
What I find most helpful is to begin by acknowledging that what you are experiencing is just a feeling. If you observe that fact with dispassion, just that observation is often enough to make the feeling fade away. The mere act of entering into the consciousness of yourself as the dispassionate observer shifts your awareness. It gives you freedom from the emotion, as you are able to identify your emotions as just a part of your experience, not your whole self.
The realization that you are more than what you are feeling at any given moment in time can serve as a portal to other parts of yourself.
– Genevieve Gerard
It can be a way to explore your inner self and your higher self by observing a place of deep peace that co-exists next to those feelings of being blue. In addition, if you quietly explore that deep peace and let it arise within, you may find a glimmer of joy that begins to grow.
Nothing has really changed in your life but the focus of your attention onto your higher self, away from your emotional self. But that change can be significant, and most importantly, that change is available to you through your attention, by your intention and your will.
This is a more powerful step than you can imagine. By shifting your consciousness from your emotions, and to your mind, and then ultimately to the wisdom of your Higher Self (your Soul), you can transform and empower your life.
Steps To Gain Mastery Over Your Emotions
There are several simple and profound steps you can use to help you gain mastery over your emotions.
The very first, as mentioned above is to acknowledge that an emotion (feeling blue) is just an emotion. An emotion does not define what is real. A feeling is just a feeling. It is not the truth. It is just an associated feeling that you have given a meaning to. It does not have any power over you unless you choose to give it power.
I have found that differentiating between what I feel, and what is real is an important step to gaining mastery in your life. Sometimes the simple act of identifying something as a feeling is sufficient to shift your consciousness to a higher and more positive perspective.
At other times your emotions may be so strong or entrenched or depressing that to dispel especially troubling or sad emotions you need to take a more proactive step.
Fortunately, right along next to your emotions you have a mind. And you can use your mind to help you gain both perspective and mastery over your emotions.
The Technique of Reframing
There is a simple technique called “reframing” or “rethinking” that is empowering and I believe can help you at this time.
Reframing is a way of viewing and experiencing events, ideas, concepts and emotions to find more positive alternatives.
The technique of reframing requires using your mind and your emotions in cooperation in a way that transforms your perspective and your consciousness. Reframing uses the power of the Universal Law that “energy follows thought.”
If you change your words it will transform your life.
– Adam Houge
As an example, my husband was in a very bad car accident when he was at college and he had a hard time remembering facts at first. When someone would ask him a question he would say, “I don’t remember, I was in a car accident.” Months later he realized that he was creating a story, a reality, that he repeated over and over again (because energy follows thought) wherein his mind he didn’t remember, even after his brain had recovered from the accident. This made him very frustrated.
Ultimately, my husband came to the realization that by simply reframing his negative “I don’t remember” answer to a more positive “I don’t recall at this time, but I will later” that he was able to access his memory more and more and his associated feelings about temporally losing his memory then became more positive.
Another example of how energy follows thought can be a self-fulfilling prophecy are individuals who keep repeating to themselves, “if I could just make it through the month,” and then wonder why they only have enough to barely make it through the month.
The concept that “energy follows thought” maybe a new one to you. However, if you have in your life followed any of the teachings of “thought leaders” in business or motivation, from Napoleon Hills now famous work, “Think and Grow Rich” to the abundance masters of “The Secret” and new thought “Law of Attraction” [LINK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_(New_Thought) ] or Jerry and Esther Hicks with the “Law of Abundance,” and their “Emotional Guidance Scale” the concept may be familiar.
The value of using the power of your mind to manage and focus your life rather than be a victim of what you may be feeling is well known. You, as a human being are multifaceted and to live your life fully you must learn to balance and utilize all aspects of yourself. Part of that is understanding and using the full scope of yourself in overcoming and managing life issues.
Using the Reframing Technique To Empower Your Life
As I mentioned above, the power of reframing your deceptive brain thoughts relies on the universal principle that energy follows thought. Therefore, what you think and how you frame the powerful thoughts you have about any circumstance and feeling, matters.
By engaging in reframing your thoughts about something that is troubling you, you are activating and empowering your partnership and co-creative power in a way that ignites your will and empowers you to be the director of your life.
The technique of reframing your thoughts takes you out of the passive role in your life and sends out instructions to the universe working with the dynamic energies of how Spirit and matter interact and inter-relate. The principle that energy follows thought impacts ripples of subtle energy that affect the mind in your response and reaction to what is emerging to manifest in your life.
All too often the tendency of human nature is to allow life to happen to them, rather than use the power of the mind and the power of thought to invoke your will and apply your wisdom. Reframing your thoughts requires that you consider what you want, replace your limiting or self-destructive (“negative”) thoughts with more empowered, adaptive (“positive”) thoughts and then apply your will power to create that.
The process of reframing something also involves evaluation and consideration of what meaning and feelings you associate with something in your life, and therefore in shifting your thoughts, your wisdom is also invoked.
Reframing does not mean one has to find a positive re-interpretation at any costs. It simply means to be able and willing to scrutinizing interpretations and re-interpretations, thoughts and behavior.
– Rauh
It is both essential and necessary to expand your consciousness and stop the damaging impact of worry and fear, both of which are limiting and self-sabotaging thoughts.
Reframing can use affirmations in a positive way or can simply design a positive outcome to a situation. Reframing is a technique that requires both observing and then changing the instructions you are sending out to yourself and to the universe on the waves of your thoughts.
Simple Reframes You Can Think About To Make You Feel Better
Reframe your thoughts by changing your words.
| Original Thought |
Reframed Thought |
| I can’t do this |
I can do this because it’s important to me |
| It’s going to be hard |
It’s going to be worth it |
| Why is this happening to me? |
What is this trying to teach me? |
| I keep making mistakes |
Learning from my mistakes is what is important |
| This is too difficult |
I can always improve if I keep trying |
| Everything happens to me |
Everything happens for me |
Three Minutes to Empowerment Exercise
A brief technique you can use to empower and transform your life is to take 3 minutes each day to observe the content of your thoughts as the detached observer.
Sitting quietly and breathing naturally, review the content of your thoughts, looking at them through the creative principle “energy follows thought.” Your thoughts are instructions you are sending out to yourself and the Universe.
I suggest spending 3 minutes daily actively reframing your thoughts to be more aligned with what you want as an active empowerment exercise.
During this 3 minutes of empowerment exercise, observe your thoughts, without self-criticism. When you observe a thought that contains fear, any negative emotion, or limiting beliefs take that opportunity of observation to revise, re-frame, and correct that thought to bring your thought into alignment with what you desire.
For those 3 moments of the day consciously request that your Soul is in control so that your creative efforts are aligned and empowered by your life purpose.
Let this brief exercise of observation quiet your mind chatter, calm your emotions, and open your awareness to new possibilities and new opportunities.
In this 3 minutes let your awareness come into the present, releasing your creativity from any contamination of the past.
Know that doing any meditative discipline 21 days in a row helps it become a habit. This is a habit that can empower your life, for the rest of your life. It works with the creative force of your creative energies to empower you.
So, when you wake up feeling blue, I encourage you to take control of the power of your mind and invoke and invite your creative nature to let yourself be and become all that you are meant to be.
Namaste,
Genevieve
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P.S. We all have blue days, but some people experience more than that. Learn the signs of clinical depression, a serious illness that may need the help of a trained therapist or the support of a life coach or at times medication to adjust your bodies chemistry.
P.P.S. Have a journal available to record what you choose to reframe.
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 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.
Browse her life story and read the Touch of the Soul that changed her world. To contact Genevieve, visit her keep in touch page.
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2.) I have also found that having a special pen is helpful. Personally, I prefer a fountain pen for journaling. I also like the look and feel that using a consistent ink color brings. These little rituals are not important but have a subtle impact on the experience of writing.
