YOU'RE NOT UPSET FOR THE REASONS YOU THINK!
Negative thoughts and emotions have their roots in the past. Fear of criticism, rejection, abandonment... Anger and resentment over past betrayals... Guilt over things said and done... all have one thing in common. Something happened to make you feel that way.
Feelings trapped inside have the power to override the best of intention . It's why willpower alone so often fails. It's why habits are so difficult to change. It's why diets don't work. The problem for many of us is that we learned to avoid our feelings early in life.
As children we experienced things we didn't know how to deal with. Confusing, difficult, even traumatic experiences taught us to resist our feelings. We learned to protect ourselves by shutting off, tightening up, clamping down, or swallowing our feelings, rather than let ourselves experience them.
Whenever we refuse to feel our feelings, we bottle them up inside. Every time we encounter an uncomfortable situation that resonates with something left unresolved from childhood, it triggers those bottled-up feelings. With nowhere to go, the emotion stays trapped in the body to form blocks, draining our energy and generating discomfort.
We all carry unresolved feelings and distorted perceptions. The problem is that, over time, they may have become so familiar that we don't even realize they're the problem.
The things that happened to you growing up and how you perceived them, determine how you view your life today. So even if you don't realize it, your childhood experiences continue to influence you as an adult.
Your mind is creating your reality. That's what it was designed to do - to run 'programs' which automatically create your personal reality - based on what you learned from life experience. Most of those programs were designed by others - long before you were old enough to realize it! What you think, how you behave and how you feel NOW have their roots in the past. Those childhood influences continue to affect your self-image, behavior, health and all your relationships.
You're not a child anymore! You can create lasting change by redesigning your mind. To do that, you must change how you feel!