Welcome to this segment today where I'm going to share a story of imagery.
I'm Gene Hutchins,
And the subject matter of this story of imagery is emotions.
Let's take a quick look at the emotional scale chart so that we understand where emotions lie from top to bottom.
Beginning at the top with the bright colors and working our way down through the top third of the chart are the emotions of joy,
Appreciation,
Empowerment,
Freedom,
Love,
Passion,
Enthusiasm,
Eagerness,
Happiness,
Positive expectations,
Belief,
Optimism,
Hopefulness,
And contentment.
Now,
This is where we want to spend the vast majority of our time if we want to feel good about ourselves.
Going down to the bottom of the emotional scale in descending order are emotions such as boredom,
Pessimism,
Frustration,
Irritation,
Impatience,
Overwhelm,
Disappointment,
Doubt,
Worry,
Blame,
Discouragement,
Anger,
Revenge,
Hatred,
Rage,
Jealousy,
Insecurity,
Guilt,
Unworthiness,
Fear,
Grief,
Despair,
And powerlessness.
Now,
This is where we spend our time making ourselves feel bad about ourselves.
Now visualize,
If you will,
Just imagine emotions as adding little trampolines to your feet or as adding little weights to your feet depending on where you hang out on that emotional scale.
You can add multiple little trampolines of emotions to your life,
Or you can add multiple little weights of emotions to your life.
It's your choice.
But the fact is that it's very difficult to understand some causes of our emotions and more difficult to learn how to control these emotions.
That's why we're here right now and talking about it.
We're talking about facing the fact and coming to terms with the concepts that determine our emotional output.
Now,
Sure,
Outside influences and incoming perceptions are a factor.
They're a big factor.
But we have the ability to process this incoming data and create our own output.
So much of the incoming crap needs to go immediately into the trash.
Exit out,
Throw it away,
Ignore it.
Sometimes you just have to build a wall.
Who we are,
That person that we've become because of our choices from the past,
Can change immediately depending on where we focus our energy and where we spend our time.
Now recall that emotional scale.
The emotions towards the top are the little trampoline emotions,
The ones that make people bubbly and bouncy,
The ones that make people go for it,
To go for life.
As you get down the list,
The trampolines get smaller and turn into little weights.
Further down the list,
The weights get heavier.
These are little additions to our feet that,
Once they're added in any configuration,
They define our liveliness about life.
You're either bouncy or you're not,
Or somewhere in between.
And it may be varying up and down a lot on the scale.
These things can create a lot of stress.
Take a look around.
Look at yourself.
Look at others.
Who's walking on the moon?
And who's trudging through the swamp?
What's the bouncibility factor that everyone's sharing?
Now think about this.
And these are some questions for today.
How does the bouncibility factor that you get from others make you feel?
Uplifting or down-dragging?
Does it make you want to draw closer to them or draw further away?
Now think about the bouncibility factor that you see when you look in the mirror.
How does that make you feel?
I'm talking about that bouncibility factor that you're projecting.
Does the image,
The demeanor,
The dialogue coming from the mirror make you want to draw closer?
Or does it make you want to draw further away?
The point that I'm trying to make with the story is this.
We must focus our energy on the bright colors,
The desirable emotions.
We must use these emotions and make them grow to the point that there's much less time to focus on those dark-colored emotions.
It's just like being in a dark basement with a ladder to climb out to the light.
But we must use the ladder.
This little imaginary story,
This visualization,
It's just an analogy of real life and how we position ourselves in our world.
It's really a big deal,
And it's very important to understand and to own our own emotional impact.
