Thursday, March 02, 2006

How are you Communicating

I would like to share a very inspiring, motivating and life changing idea that had/has an immense influence on my life and the people around me.

The way you communicate to yourself is probably the most important thing you do all day long. See, whenever something happens you have to communicate it to yourself and it is in this communication that you create the meaning of your experience. If you communicate your experience as being a problem the corresponding feeling would be that of worry and stress.

You are the shaper and maker of meaning and feeling. Nothing your life has any meaning except the meaning you give it and the way you give it meaning relies on your communication within yourself. If you communicate something poorly then the understanding of what you are communicating is usually very vague. The reason why people feel crap on a daily basis is their lack of communication.

The real difference in how people feel comes down to their communication. If you want to change how you feel you can change it instantaneously by just changing the words you choose to describe the situation, For example if you say "I am ok" it creates the corresponding feeling of being "ok" - not a very useful feeling indeed. If you say I feel like sh** it would be even worse, but what if you said I am fantastic you will actually feel fantastic.

If this sounds like mumbo jumbo, it isn't! Just try it and notice for yourself how your communication creates your emotions. Every feeling you have is created by you and is the result of how you communicate the circumstances of your life.

Tony Robbins teaches some phenomenal communication techniques in his live event Unleash The Power Within and he explores the concept of personal communication as an indespensible tool for controling how you feel. For more self improvement advise and insights feel free to visit The Self Improvement Gym