Day 9: How to Feel Good -- "What if you...?"

The Day 9 offering of our How to Feel Good series says make feeling good a goal, a priority. 

My first principle at the Play Big Academy is "Feel Good First."

It means just what it says.  

Before you do X, take deliberate actions that help you feel as good as you can (where X is whatever you're about to do.)  

When we feel good we usually perform better, and besides, feeling good feels good.

Ask: "What if feeling good was my top priority?"

What would you do in the next 10 minutes if your top goal was to feel good?

For me right now it's Pink Floyd.  I sat down to write during "Shine on You Crazy Diamond," and now an extended version of "Comfortably Numb."

What music would you put on?

How would you move your body?

What would you do for someone else?

What would you eat?

What would you focus on and connect with to feel grateful?  Grateful feels good.

I'll stop there so you can get to it.

Except to note that if feeling good is our top priority, we monitor it through the day.  When we notice we aren't feeling good, we do what we can to change it.

Making feeling good a priority is Playing Big,

Dr. Tom

p.s.  "Feeling good" will often mean moving in that direction, up the emotional scale as much as you can.  I don't think we can feel good all the time, and I'm not sure we'd want to. 

Outs give hits their meaning.

And sometimes it serves us well to be present with our negative emotions, be with them and explore them.  Emotions are messengers.  They have something to say and want to be heard.

So there's that.

But unless you're processing an emotion like that -- do something now that makes you feel good.

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