Wrong side of bed in the morning!!! One of those days!!! I just woke up pissed off!!! How many times do you feel this way or hear someone describing things like this? My guess is too many. Sometimes, for no apparent reason, we just feel bad… we can’t explain it, it just happens. There is no rationale or reason… but that still doesn’t mean we can’t do anything about it.

Our physiology has a large part to play in the way we feel. It’s not simply our thoughts that control what we feel from day to day. It’s also the condition of our bodies. Whether we exercise, are getting good sleep and are eating healthily will all have a large impact upon how we feel at any given moment in time.

What problem this poses is that it affects our bodies and neurochemistry at the same time. It’s not just how we stand or sit or whether we smile or frown that affects our feelings, it’s also how we are treating our body in general. Now before you get worried, I am not about to prostatise to you that you must only eat vegetables and sleep 8 hours a day and exercise regularly.

What I will say on that matter is that it is important you a) get a good amount of sleep as regularly as possible and get into a routine b) exercise regularly and get into a routine and c) eat healthy foods more of the time.. and we all know what are healthy and what aren’t!!

Now, the main thing I want to point out here is that if you’ve found yourself not in the best states these days and yet believe that you are using NLP successfully in changing the way you think more positively and usefully, here’s the secret that you have been missing. The art is to BECOME MORE AWARE OF THE STATE YOU ARE IN and STEP OUT OF IT. Now, I know it sounds easy than it’s supposedly done, but you’ll be surprised.

What I’m saying is to pay attention to how you feel and instead of giving yourself a real hard time about it and feeling worse for feeling bad or trying desperately to change it, simply acknowledge it and be aware of any behaviours and decisions that you might have to make and resolve NOT to make them while you are in that state.

If you know it’s a state that you are going through temporarily then you can avoid snapping at people or making stupid decisions because even when you are in that state and your thinking is distorted, when you make yourself conscious that it is a state… you can make much more rational decisions!!!

Normally we act on impulse and although that’s great when we are on a roll, it ain’t so great when we are feeling exhausted or irritable. So when you’re body isn’t in the best state, while you know your thinking is affected, you get to step outside of the state you are in to make the decisions that are rationally speaking the cleverest for you… that way your outcomes in life don’t suffer from your state and you avoid the biggest trap of NLPers… feeling bad because with NLP they shouldn’t be… when you simply don’t give a shit because you know THIS TOO WILL PASS…. Then you get to make good decisions and do great things no matter how you feel and give yourself lots more reasons to feel wonderful!!