Anthony Robbins AWAKEN THE GIANT... - Lemma Coaching

The only way to effectively use your emotions is to understand that they all serve you. You must learn
from your emotions and use them to create the results you want for a greater quality of life. The
emotions you once thought of as negative are merely a call to action. In fact, instead of calling them
negative emotions, from now on in this chapter, let's call them Action Signals. Once you're familiar
with each signal and its message, your emotions become not your enemy but your ally. They become
your friend, your mentor, your coach; they guide you through life's most soaring highs and its most
demoralizing lows. Learning to use these signals frees you from your fears and allows you to
experience all the richness of which we humans are capable. To get to this point, then, you must
change your global beliefs about what emotions are. They are not predators, substitutes for logic, or
products of other people's whims. They are Action Signals trying to guide you to the promise of a
greater quality of life.
If you merely react to your emotions through an avoidance pattern, then you'll miss out on the
invaluable message they have to offer you. If you continue to miss the message and fail to handle the
emotions when they first turn up, they'll grow into full-blown crises. All our emotions are important
and valuable in the proper amounts, timing, and context.
Realize that the emotions you are feeling at this very moment are a gift, a guideline, a
support system, a call to action. If you suppress your emotions and try to drive them out of
your life, or if you magnify them and allow them to take over everything, then you're
squandering one of life's most precious resources.
So what is the source of emotions? You are the source of all your emotions; you are the one
who creates them. So many people feel that they have to wait for certain experiences in order to
feel the emotions they desire. For instance, they don't give themselves permission to feel loved or
happy or confident unless a particular set of expectations is met. I'm here to tell you that you can
feel any way you choose at any moment in time.
At the seminars I conduct near my home in Del Mar, California, we've created a fun anchor to remind
us who is really responsible for our emotions. These seminars are held in an exquisite, four-star resort,
the Inn L'Auberge, which sits right on the ocean, and is also near the train station. About four times a
day, you can hear the train whistle loudly as it passes through. Some seminar participants would
become irritated at the interruption (remember, they didn't know about Transformational Vocabulary
yet!), so I decided that this was the perfect opportunity to turn frustration into fun. "From now on," I
said, "whenever we hear that train howl, we'll celebrate. I want to see how good you can make
yourselves feel whenever you hear that train. We're always waiting for the right person or right
situation to come along before we feel good. But who determines whether this is the right person or
situation? When you do feel good, who's making you feel good? You are! But you simply have a rule
that says you have to wait until A, B, and C occur before you allow yourself to feel good. Why wait?
Why not set up a rule that says that whenever you hear a train whistle, you'll automatically feel great?
The good news is that the train whistle is probably more consistent and predictable than the people
you're hoping will show up to make you feel good!"
Now, whenever we hear the train pass, jubilation ensues. People immediately jump out of their chairs,
cheer and holler, and act like silly maniacs—including doctors, lawyers, CEOs—people who were