Anthony Robbins AWAKEN THE GIANT... - Lemma Coaching

kinds of friends? If I just let them know I want to visit with them, wouldn't they love to visit with me
as well? Is my loneliness giving me a message that I need to take action, reach out more and
connect with people?" Here are four questions to ask yourself to become curious about your emotions:
What do I really want to feel?
What would I have to believe in order to feel the way I've been feeling?
What am I willing to do to create a solution and handle this right now?
What can I learn from this?
As you get curious about your emotions, you'll learn important distinctions about them, not only today,
but in the future as well.
STEP FOUR
Get Confident
Get confident that you can handle this emotion immediately. The quickest, simplest, and most
powerful way I know to handle any emotion is to remember a time when you felt a similar
emotion and realize that you've successfully handled this emotion before. Since you handled
it in the past, surely you can handle it again today. The truth is, if you've ever had this Action
Signal before and gotten through it, you already have a strategy of how to change your emotional
states.
So stop right now and think about that time when you felt the same emotions and how you dealt with
them in a positive way. Use this as the role model or checklist for what you can do right now to change
how you feel. What did you do back then? Did you change what you were focusing on, the questions
you asked yourself, your perceptions? Or did you take some kind of new action? Decide to do the same
right now, with the confidence that it will work just as it did before. If you're feeling depressed, for
example, and you've been able to turn it around before, ask yourself, "What did I do then?" Did you
take some new action like going for a run or making some phone calls? Once you've made some
distinctions about what you've done in the past, do the same things now, and you'll find that you’ll get
similar results.
STEP FIVE
Get Certain You Can Handle This Not Only Today,
But in the Future as Well
You want to feel certain that you can handle this emotion easily in the future by having a great plan to
do so. One way to do this is to simply remember the ways you've handled it in the past, and rehearse
handling situations where this Action Signal would come up in the future. See, hear, and feel yourself
handling the situation easily. Repetitions of this with emotional intensity will create within you a neural
pathway of certainty that you can easily deal with such challenges. In addition, jot down on a piece of
paper three or four other ways that you could change your perception when an Action Signal comes up,
or ways that you could change how you were communicating your feelings or needs, or ways that you
could change the actions you were taking in this particular situation.