In the frame of mind I allowed myself to be in yesterday it made a real impact on my day. I felt like I was cutting myself short and not living up to the true potential I have. If I am going to make this work and learn from it to improve, it means I have to have the right mindset. Remember that any criticsm that comes my way is for my benefit and not to be hurtful. I often have a hard time with that due to my upbringing. Some of you may relate.
With my mind on the right track, and my motivation in full swing, I set out to do my very best at work today. I ended the day with $65 in commission(goal was $30 for the day) and I took 15 calls an hour which was the quota. I enjoyed every call and focused on the customer, building a solid foundation of customer support and satisfaction. Due to my attitude, mindset and a smile in my voice, I had a successful day. This truly is the key to maintaining a good, happy life. It is our choice.
I came across this article and although it is a little scientifically spoken, I think it explains what I am feeling.
You are What you Feel
Copyright 2005 Mary Desaulniers
When Wordsworth described the Romantic mind as an ”Orphean
lyre” played upon by the wind, he used an image that
struck a chord in the Romantic Imagination, an image that
unleashed a century of political, literary and social
rebellion.
Why did the image of the lyre speak so dramatically to the
people 300 years ago? Can we see in our current research on
emotions and the body concrete evidence that what was once
a poetic metaphor is an actual physiological truth?
By calling the mind a lyre played upon by the wind,
Wordsworth made a bold departure from Descartes whose
assertion,”I think, therefore I am” completely dismissed
the importance of the body in the psychological and
intellectual scheme of things. This Mind versus Body
dualism haunted Western Imagination until the Romantics
made an impassioned claim for the importance of breath,
inspiration and feelings in language and poetry. “Poetry is
the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,” wrote
Wordsworth. And in claiming a place for feelings,
Wordsworth made an equally bold claim for the disconnected,
the disenchanted and the disgruntled of his social
universe; those exiles who inhabit his poetic landscape are
reminders of what we have lost: connection with kin, the
land and God. And by reclaiming them, he not only restored
the importance of feelings, sound and movement to the
“body” of poetry, he also called for a more egalitarian and
compassionate “body politic” where everyone had a place in
the social network of connections.
Thanks to the work of Dr. Candace Pert (Molecules of
Emotion: The Science behind BodyMind 1997), we can see now
how Wordsworth’s metaphor is played out in our real and
actual bodies. Emotions and thoughts do not reside solely
in the head; as a matter of fact, the body functions like a
vast neural network of reactions to thoughts and feelings.
Think of the body as a huge limbic Web where messages are
transmitted and received back and forth in an unending
chain of interactions.
And the central sources of this transmission are
emotions—emotions that release specific neuropeptides that
are attached to specific receptive cells (receptors) all
over the body. The emotional circuitry of the brain is
connected to every organ of the body, says Mona Lisa Schulz
M.D. Ph.D in The New Feminine Brain 2005. This means that
our emotions create definite and specific changes to the
cells of the body. The circuitry works in an interactive
manner: chronic moodiness can trigger chemical imbalances
that cause depression which in turn increases the body’s
chances of developing illness and pain. And illness or pain
can also influence the dynamics of the cells to produce
deeper and more intense depression. Physical symptoms can
have their first cause in the emotional dynamics of the
body.
Current research in cell biology suggests that each cell
has the ability to change its constitution and program
according to its response to the external environment. Like
a lyre that is played upon by the wind, our cells are
altered by the waves of feelings and emotions that move
through our bodies, influencing our perceptions and
experiences of the world.
Such a fluid and porous connection between mind and body
suggests that the material nature of our body ( and indeed
of the world) can be seriously questioned. To what extent
are our bodies solid? To what extent can our own
receptivity alter our experiences of the world? To what
extent can we, by switching our perception and feelings,
change the course of events in our lives? To what extent
would this Brave New World of ours be a matter of
survival—survival of the most malleable and most porous?
Perhaps a look at some of the documented physiological
reactions to negative emotions can persuade us of the
direction we need to take with our thoughts and feelings.
Negative emotions like fear, anger, sadness can bring about
Fatigue, Apathy, Shortness of breath, Insomnia,
Depression,Dysfunction of the immune system, Increased
susceptibility to infections, Autoimmune disorders, Cancer.
Positive emotions like love and joy can bring about
Increased body temperature, Feeling of strength in the body
or Empowerment, Enhanced immune system, Change in appetite,
Improved attention, learning and memory, Increased sense of
well-being.
Anger, sadness, fear, hatred all release neuropeptides that
disrupt the release of natural opiates like endorphins and
serotonin in the body. These natural opiates increase our
feelings of well-being. It is clear that the choice is
ours: the choice not only to think positively but to choose
actions that elicit positive responses in our cells. Our
bodies are as fluid as Wordsworth’s lyre and it is
incumbent upon us to move in the most effective direction
the biochemical make-up of our cells by consciously
selecting our emotional reactions to events.
If we are what we eat and what we do, we are even more
intensely what we think and what we feel.
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A runner for 27 years, retired schoolteacher and writer,
Mary is now doing what she has always done--being engaged
in what she loves--running, weight training,writing,helping
people reclaim their bodies by seeing that weight is just
matter that needs to be processed. Nutrition, exercise,
positive vision and purposeful engagement are the tools
used to turn this matter into creative selves.
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