Mastering Your Inner State By Retraining Your Brain

Mastering your internal state doesn’t have to be hard when you know what to look out for. In this article you will learn how to transform a bad situation that full of regret into a wonderful opportunity for success, gratitude and happiness.

Are you living in regret or maybe resentment? Maybe, you are dwelling on a past event, where something happened to you? This past event gets replay in your mind over and over again, which building up more resentment or regret.

I know the feeling of rehashing an event. When I was in a custody suite with breast cancer. At night I would replay in my mind everything that happened that day in court and I would get angry all over again. Have you ever done anything like that? Replayed the event over and over again in your mind?

This is the window of the past that gets pulled into the future. Here’s the secret. The event doesn’t have to be negative. When you have the philosophy that everything happens for my best and highest good. It’s about shifting the emotional state of the event. Let me give you an example.

I was working six to seven part time jobs while trying to build my business in the evening and on week-ends. It was a struggle and most of the time I found myself too tired to be really productive. One day I said to myself, “I wish I had some extra time to work on my business.” Then, I went on with my life and within two weeks three of my part time jobs disappeared. One job didn’t have any work. One job the owner was on his normal pattern of letting the person go after one year. The other job shifted their business format. What I found interesting is that it all happened around the same time I wanted more time to work in my own business. 

When I first realized three of my income streams dried up. I panicked, because I needed the income. Then, I remembered I have to have trust, because something good is coming out of this. I don’t know what it is right now. I just know my good is there.

On the other hand if I stayed in worry, fear and anxiety thinking. I would have started to build up resentment or regret. If I let that resentment or regret run wild thinking and dwelling on it about the past. The resentment and regret would build bigger and bigger, creating more negative energy. This isn’t really good for your mind or your body, because stress in the body can cause dis-ease. I’ve already gone down that road with cancer twice.

If I hung onto all this resentment or regret would show up as fear in the future. Fear keeps you stuck and you don’t grow. You shut down your learning and life experiences. When you’re in fear your running from life. I don’t want to live in fear. Do you? Bottom line, resentment and regret in the past equals fear in the future.

The key here is to get ahold of you thinking and focus on the positive. When you focus on positive thoughts it shortens the window of past regret.

The sooner you can retrain your brain to focus on the blessing of the situation the quicker you’ll be happy. By retraining your brain to think a positive thought, such as gratitude. You are now shifting your emotional state and your mental state. Coming from gratitude will show up as faith and trust in the future. This is why it is so important to get control of your thoughts and clean up your past so that you can have happiness and faith in the future.

Right now you have a choice.  You can live your future in fear or you can live your future in faith. The choice is yours according to your style of thinking.

There are three styles of thinking that a person does. There is the past, the present and the future. Most people are taught to think negative and dwell on their past mistakes. We are not taught to think in the present moment or pay attention to our thoughts. Some people never think of the future and what they want out of life. They just go with the flow.

The past is just an experience that you had. You are the one choosing to label it good or bad. The present is just a moment in time and the future is only a thought away. My question to you is how do you want to live?

Action step

Take a few moments and really decide on how you want to live your life. Do you want to live in fear or faith?

Do you want to keep dwelling on past mistakes which builds up regret which leads to fear in the future?  

Or do you want to become aware of the present moment and focus on feeling gratitude? By shifting your emotional and mental state that of gratitude. It will show up as faith in the future.

How do you want to live?