Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Six Steps To Emotional Mastery








Introduction:

Adapted form the book called Awaken the Giant within by Anthony Robbins


Why These Six Steps?

a. Able to take very quick control of your emotions.
b. Find the benefit of that emotion.
c. Set somebody up so that in the future he/she can get the lesson from the emotion.
d. Eliminate the effect or pain of emotions more quickly

Step 1: Identify what you're really feeling


~Take a moment to identify what you're really feeling
~Begin to question your emotions
~Use transformational vocabulary
~Able to lower the emotional intensity

Step 2: Acknowledge and appreciate your emotions, knowing they support you

- Trust your emotions; even you do not understand them at the moment.
- Because each emotions you are experiencing is there to support you in making a positive change
  • You will immediately stop the war with yourself

  • You will have toward simple solutions

  • Your emotions will calm down immediately

Step 3: get curious about the message this emotion

* Getting curious helps you : -

  • Master your emotion
  • Solve the challenge
  • Prevent the same problem occuring in future

*Four questions to feel the emotion, get curious about what it really has to offer you

i. What do I really want to feel

ii. What would I have to do to believe in order to feel the way I've been feeling?

iii. What am I willing to do to create a solution and handle this right now?

iv. What can I learn from this?

Step 4 : Get confident

= Get confident that you can handle this emotion immediately

= Remember a time when you felt a similar emotion

= Realize that you've successful handled this emotion before

= Thus, you already have a strategy of how to change your emotional states

= Then, do the same again with confidence that it will work just as it did before


Step 5: Get certain you can handle this not only today but in the future as well

~~How do you apply Step 5?

Firstly, remember tha ways you have handled in the past

Secondly, rehearse handling siutaions where this emotion would come up in the future

Thridly, see, hear and feel yourself handling the situations easily

Lastly, a neutral pathway of certainly that you can easily deal with such challenges.


Step 6 : Get excited and take action

- Get excited that you able to handle this emotion easily

- Take some action right away to prove that you've slove it

- Express yourseld by using what you rehearsed internally

- This will change the way you feel today and the way how you deal with this emotion in future