Feeling Happy and Strong
How you feel on the inside is unique to you. If there are twenty people in a room watching a film, each person when questioned will be unique in their response to the film even though there will be areas of agreement. What determines how you feel in any situation is determined by the previous experiences you have had in like situations and your unique genetic inheritance. When you habitually feel ‘bad’ ‘down’ or frightened in particular situations it will usually be because some aspect of your unique history has caused you to associate negative feeling with those situations. You may be aware of negative reactions of this sort and give yourself a stern lecture on the need to respond more positively. However if the original experience happened when you were young and it was a really difficult one for you, you probably find no matter how much you want to respond differently, you still continue to feel ‘bad’ or ‘down’ regardless of what seems logical. Fortunately how you react to situations can be changed, at the level of the original experience so you can start having positive feelings about situations that were previously negative for you.