Emotional Switching

Incredible feelings of energy since turning attention to this area. I'm two days into it and only doing one exercise within this realm.

Emotional switching.

The imperitive is to control emotional state. This doesn't mean to diminish emotions, it means to switch them at will. This ability is at the heart of NLP and hypnosis. To break state, jump to another emotional state. I was having enormous difficulty doing this. Hell, I was having great difficulty expressing emotional states!

Last year, I took acting classes (more on this later) and one of the most theraputic activites was doing some emotional switching. The instructor placed 4 pieces of paper in a square on the floor. Each square had an emotion. We said our monolog while the instructor directed us to jump to different squares and say the lines with that particular emotion. Only 7% of communication is in the actual words, the other 93% is body language and tonality.

What words are used to perform the emotional switching? It doesn't matter. Print out a list of emotions and say the mantra using everything you have to express the emotion. The exercise should give goose bumps or other physiological effects...that's how I know I'm doing it right.