Anthony Robbins AWAKEN THE GIANT... - Lemma Coaching

fact that you want these things or results because you see them as a means to achieving certain
feelings, emotions, or states that you desire.
When somebody kisses you, what makes you feel good in that moment? Is it wet tissue touching wet
tissue that really triggers the feeling? Of course not! If that's true, kissing your dog would turn you on!
All of our emotions are nothing but a flurry of biochemical storms in our brains—and we can spark
them at any moment. But first we must learn how to take control of them consciously instead of living
in reaction. Most of our emotional responses are learned responses to the environment. We've
deliberately modeled some of them, and stumbled across others.
Simply being aware of these factors is the foundation for understanding the power of state. Without a
doubt, everything you and I do, we do to avoid pain or gain pleasure, but we can instantly change
what we believe will lead to pain or pleasure by redirecting our focus and changing our mentalemotional-physiological
states. As I said in Chapter 3 of Unlimited Power:
A state can be defined as the sum of millions of neurological processes happening within us—the sum
total of our experience at any moment in time. Most of our states happen without any conscious
direction on our pan. We see something, and we respond to it by going into a state. It may be a
resourceful and useful state, or an unresourceful and limiting state, but there's not much that most of
us do to control it.
Have you ever found yourself unable to remember a friend's name? Or how to spell a "difficult" word
like .. . "house"? How come you weren't able to do this? You certainly knew the answer. Is it because
you're stupid? No, it's because you were in a stupid state! The difference between acting badly or
brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.
You can be gifted with the courage and determination of Marva Collins, the grace and flair of Fred
Astaire, the strength and endurance of Nolan Ryan, the compassion and intellect of Albert Einstein—
but if you continually submerge yourself in negative states, you'll never fulfill that promise of
excellence.
However, if you know the secret of accessing your most resourceful states, you can literally work
wonders. The state that you're in at any given moment determines your perceptions of reality and thus
your decisions and behavior. In other words, your behavior is not the result of your ability, but of the
state that you're in at this moment. To change your ability, change your state. To open up the
multitude of resources that lie within you, put yourself in a state of resourcefulness and active
expectancy—and watch miracles happen!
So how can we change our own emotional states? Think of your states as operating a lot like a TV set.
In order to have "bright, vivid color with incredible sound," you need to plug in and turn on. Turning on
your physiology is like giving the set the electricity it needs to operate. If you don't have the juice,
you'll have no picture, no sound, just a blank screen. Similarly, if you don't turn on by using your
entire body, in other words, your physiology, you may indeed find yourself unable to spell "house."
Have you ever woken up and stumbled around, not able to think clearly or function until you moved
around enough to get your blood flowing?
Once the "static" has cleared, you're turned on, and the ideas begin to flow. If you're in the wrong
state, you're not going to get any reception, even if you've got the right ideas. Of course, once you're