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Are you constantly frustrated? Disappointed? Overwhelmed? Stressed? Are you ready to change these “negative emotions” into useful tools to create a more rewarding life? It’s all in your mind. You must consider your emotions ACTION SIGNALS, and use the action signals to…take action!! Tony Robbins’ Get The Edge, Day 5: The Power of Emotions is a phenomenal audio CD I have listened to obsessively and finally I have stopped listening to it! 😉 But I wanted to share with you the amazing messages he relayed. Maybe they will not resonate with you as much as they did with me, because you are not listening to his voice, or you are at a different stage in your life than I was and therefore the messages are not as relevant to you…but as someone who cares about her readers, I am delighted to pass along to you something I found extremely powerful and useful.

Wow. Okay. I have been wanting to share this with you for a long time, and finally got around to it. This audio CD is INCREDIBLE. My bf has a million audio CD’s and I thought they were totally wacky. Err for dummies. How about you pick up a BOOK?!!? But then…I turned to the other side. One day, I decided to thrown some in the CD player in the car because I was sick of my music and sick of the radio. It was so productive! And luckily some of his CD’s were very powerful!!! When I listened to Tony Robbins’ Power of Emotions CD, it literally was played over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And over. For what was it?….Two months? Yeah, it’s kind of ridiculous. But I was going through a rough time and really needed the message. As someone who sometimes lets emotions get the best of me, I really found this CD relevant and empowering. Tony Robbins is a best-selling author and a hugely popular motivational speaker for a reason! Really, one of the only motivational speakers of our modern times! He talks about a lot of stuff in the CD, but here are the main points.

We determine our reality. We create our reality. By the meanings that we attach to experiences in life. How we feel at any moment in time is really the result of the meaning we ascribe to an experience, not any inherent scientific quality of an event.

Every emotion serves us, as long as it moves us forward, not backwards.  An emotion is not “wrong.” We shouldn’t avoid emotions. When we feel an emotion, we must use this emotion to help us, by following these 6 steps.

1. Identify the emotion/signal– what does this emotion really mean? E.g. are you truly destroyed, or are you just uncomfortable?

2. Appreciate the message the emotion is offering us. E.g I need to change my state of fear. This is a valuable emotion. This means I may need to prepare! That’s a useful message!

3. Get incredibly curious. E.g. What can I learn from this? How can I use this to make my life better? Do I need to change my perception? Or procedure? How do I want to feel? What do I need to do to achieve that?

4. Get confident by remembering that I’ve worked this out in the past.

5. Get certain I can handle this in the future by rehearsing how to use this emotion as a tool of empowerment. E.g. playing out different scenarios so that you know you have multiple ways to deal with this emotion in a positive way.

6. Take action. Do something right away to make the changes that you need to! E.g. don’t let the emotions repeat and stack on top of one another. Use the emotions and make a change! 🙂

All emotions, even negative emotions, are ACTION SIGNALS. If you experience something negative, they are like weeds in a garden- pick them out! Don’t be all proud of being so good at picking out weeds, though! Instead, grow huge and deep roots of positive emotions!!!

Practice these 10 emotions everyday and notice you don’t need to use the negative emotions as “action signals” as much!

1. Love and Warmth
2. Appreciation and gratitude
3. Curiosity
4. Excitement and passion
5. Determination
6. Flexibility
7. Confidence
8. Cheerfulness
9. Health
10. Contribution

What do you think of his take?

Has there been any book or audio CD or speaker or anything that has really resonated with you? Anything that really inspires you? I love inspiration 😉 so please share!