Tony Robbins -Re-Awaken_the_Giant_Within

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 part. 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 plugged in, you’ve got to be tuned to the right channel to get what you really want.
Mentally, you’ve got to focus on what empowers you. Whatever you focus on—whatever you tune in to—you
will feel more intensely. So if you don’t like what you’re doing, maybe it’s time to change the channel.
There are unlimited sensations, unlimited ways of looking at virtually anything in life. All of the
sensations that you want are available all of the time, and all you’ve got to do is to tune in to the right
channel. There are two primary ways, then, to change your emotional state: by changing the way you
use your physical body, or by changing your focus.
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