How to Control Your Emotions

How the Brain Creates Emotion

Your neurology simply codes thoughts in distinctive ways. As an example, notice one of the ways that the emotion of depression is caused ...

It's Not Just WHAT You Think, But HOW You Are Thinking 

How you hold a thought in your mind, how it is represented; your actual thought process determines what chemistry your body produces and how you feel.

Which Way Do You Think?

Happy people think unconsciously of positive events and memories as big and colorful while thinking of negative memories as small and insignificant.  Thinking this way makes you feel better.

Depressed people do the opposite.  When you are depressed you probably think unconsciously about things that are positive as small and insignificant.  That causes you to get very little joy out of the thought or memory.  And chances are that you are thinking about negative things, future and present, as big, heavy and in your face, which only makes you feel worse.

Notice how thinking patterns are illustrated below.   

Keep in mind that you aren't aware of HOW you are representing these thoughts in your mind.  It is all happening unconsciously, but it is happening.  And this is what changes chemistry and emotions.

This is how HAPPY PEOPLE tend to think:

Obviously, the way happy people think creates good emotions.  The thought is being pictured in the mind in ways that make you feel good.

Observe and study here that chronically sad people think exactly opposite of how content people think.

This is how DEPRESSED PEOPLE tend to think:

Get the picture?

When we are suffering from depression we are thinking about things exactly opposite of how positive, upbeat people do. 

The answer is obvious.  Change the thought pattern to how happy people think. 

How?

One way is with the help of Word Medicine Reports. Learn more about them here.