Most of our emotional responses are learned responses to the environment. We've deliberately modeled some of them, and stumbled across others.
Simply being aware of these factors is the foundation for understanding the power of state. Without a doubt, everything you and I do, we do to avoid pain or gain pleasure, but we can instantly change what we believe will lead to pain or pleasure by redirecting our focus and changing our mental-emotional -physiological states.
A state can be defined as the sum of millions of neurological processes happening within us- the sum total of our experience at any moment in time.
Most of our states happen without any conscious direction on our part. We see something, and we respond to it by going into a state. It may be a resourceful and useful state, or an unresourceful and limiting state, but there's not much that most of us do to control it.
Have you ever found yourself unable to remember a friend's name? Or how to spell a "difficult" word like ...."house"? How come you weren't able to do this? You certainly knew the answer. Is it because you're stupid? No, it's because you were in a stupid state!
The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.
If you know the secret of accessing your most resourceful states, you can literally work wonders. The state that you're in at any given moment determines your perceptions of reality and thus your decisions and behaviour.
In other words, your behaviour is not the result of your ability, but of the state that you're in at this moment.
To change your ability, change your state. To open up the multitude of resources that lie within you, put yourself in a state of resourcefulness and active expectancy - and watch miracles happen!
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