Transform Your Experiences Into Sources For Positive Emotions

The way you think about all your experiences in life influences your emotions, which in turn influences your behavior. Transforming your experiences you have accumulated over the years is responsible for where you are today. It can be harmful to cling to emotions that are the result of a negative evaluation of an experience, so let’s learn to look at life through a different lens and develop our magical power to transform things.

Remember that you have the power to transform your experiences. Developing this power and transforming the influence of these experiences seems like a form of magic. Meditation, positive affirmation, visualization, conscious presence and shifting of attention are just a few ways to produce this magic.

Meditation involves letting thoughts flow without being caught up in them, in a relaxed position and in a peaceful environment. Through breathing techniques, you can achieve a state of relaxation that provides you with a variety of psychoemotional benefits.

From a psychological and physiological point of view, meditation can induce a changed state of consciousness. Conscious breathing and progressive muscle relaxation are also beneficial, cognitively. With training in meditation, you can reduce your depressive thoughts and achieve higher peace of mind.

Physiologically, it takes a few seconds for the body to process the information and then return to a normal state when a negative emotion invades the body. But if after that we continue to think about what made us sad or angry, this physiological process will be repeated and trap us in this feeling, leading to a vicious circle.

You can change the feeling by changing the focus of your attention. When you feel a negative emotion, spare a moment to breathe, and when you feel it disappear , focus on something else. Think or do something different, think of a happy memory, listen to music or watch an entertaining movie that you can focus on instead.

Visualization is a technique that fosters positivity, produces positive chemical reactions in the brain and makes the body relaxed. It also lets you escape from your daily routine and stress for a while. This is another piece of magic that can transform your experiences.

Elsa Punset offers 250 quick routines to improve your daily life in The Book of Little Revelations. In “The Garden of Transformation”, she invites the reader to visit a comfortable place where you will not be disturbed.

From there, she offers the following visualization: “Imagine that you are entering a garden, you can imagine it exactly as you want. In this natural place you give yourself permission to transform yourself in any way you want: to a blade of grass swaying in the breeze, a piece of motionless granite, a giant running towards the garden, a colorful bird flying over the trees… ”

Observing your thoughts is the first step towards understanding what your mind is made of. Most of what you feel is already determined by what you think. By changing the way you think, you can thus change the way you act and feel.

You can teach your mind to stop focusing on negative things that only attract negative emotions. Instead, you can direct your thoughts toward positive affirmations and learn to put a stop to the negative interpretations you usually make.

Positive affirmations have to do with a change of negative thoughts and ideas you have about yourself, and give them a positive turn (eg I am…, I can…, I am capable…).

Being here and now can be difficult, especially if we are not used to it. It takes attention, learning and effort to push aside even negative thoughts and clouds of anxiety. But if you can accomplish this step, you will have a tool that is very useful when it comes to focusing on a specific situation and ignoring distractions and contaminating thoughts.

Being obsessed with past problems or feelings of guilt for past behaviors can be close to resentment and even lead to depression. To transform your past or future clouds of anxiety, you must live in the here and now. The present is a gift, which is why it is called a gift in English, and its transforming power is enormous.