{"id":6723,"date":"2011-12-15T10:59:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T17:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertfagan.com\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2025-03-19T10:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:22:06","slug":"overcoming-negative-emotions-amp-problems-by-waking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/coaching\/6723\/overcoming-negative-emotions-amp-problems-by-waking-up","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming Negative Emotions &amp; Problems By Waking Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2011\/12\/negative2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6724\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2011\/12\/negative2-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>All of our energy whether it be our thoughts, feelings, or resulting emotions occurs either by choice or default.\u00a0 When we are truly awake, our responses to any situation are the result of conscious choices, and conversely when we are asleep in a figurative sense, they are more like reflex actions or habits.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When we wake up and become conscious of our feelings and array of choices, we can then realize that we have an infinite variety of responses to any situation.\u00a0 Being awake is another way to describe being aware.\u00a0 By becoming increasingly aware of our energy, both good and bad, we can consciously make awake conscious decisions that work better for us.\u00a0 Being asleep, our old programs, stories, and reflex actions take place and we perpetuate the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We know that everything is energy.\u00a0 Our emotions are energy too, and a blessed bio-feedback mechanism.\u00a0 Our emotions are a guide, a reference point telling us how we our are focusing your attention.\u00a0 Blindly forcing a positive mental attitude on top of negative emotion is a disregard for the information our emotional guidance system is trying to show us.\u00a0 We are out of alignment and that doesn&#8217;t feel good.\u00a0 There\u2019s an all-important element missing in the equation.\u00a0 What\u2019s the missing element? It\u2019s your emotions.\u00a0 More specifically, it\u2019s the disregard of your emotions as information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Feeling fear, anxiety, anger (or any negative emotion) and then going into action anyway is a poor use of our energy. The results we get won\u2019t be as satisfying if we get results at all.\u00a0 Faking it until you make it might fool some people and last in the short term, but you can\u2019t fool Mother Nature.\u00a0 We can\u2019t fool the Universe with inauthentic (misaligned) action or energy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aligned energy and actions are things that feel good when we do them.\u00a0 It feels like you\u2019re going with the flow, rather than bucking the current.\u00a0 It\u2019s like driving and getting green lights all day long.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anytime you uncover a bad feeling, it is a prompt for you to go back and review the underlying belief.\u00a0 You can always change, modify, or alter that belief.\u00a0 Is that belief even truly yours or did you inherit or glean it by mistake? \u00a0 When the pain becomes great enough you more likely will change your belief or continue your suffering.\u00a0 You can also seek someone to help you do this if the task seems to daunting, but the point is that you always have options regarding how you will approach and respond to everything that life presents you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As you plan all your goings and doings for the day, keep in mind how you want to feel through it all.\u00a0 What do you intend to accomplish and how do you want to feel?\u00a0 By simply calling to mind your intentions before you take action, you send a powerful energy current in advance of your actions.\u00a0 Consciously doing this you demonstrate that you are truly awake.\u00a0\u00a0 Try it.\u00a0 You\u2019re going to like it because it really works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; All of our energy whether it be our thoughts, feelings, or resulting emotions occurs either by choice or default.\u00a0&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/coaching\/6723\/overcoming-negative-emotions-amp-problems-by-waking-up\" title=\"ReadOvercoming Negative Emotions &amp; Problems By Waking Up\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":6724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2107,2109],"tags":[4392,153128,153130,3577,3587,4308],"class_list":["post-6723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching","category-life-coaching","tag-awareness","tag-awake","tag-asleep","tag-beliefs","tag-choice","tag-negativity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2011\/12\/negative2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18861,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions\/18861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}