Change Your Mood with NLP Techniques

Change Your Mood with NLP Techniques

          Being in different emotional states or moods is very common among all human beings. Even animals have different moods. Every person gets into different states (moods) as part of their life experiences. But the states may not last for long. Moody or mood off state is a problem state for a person. Mood off states makes a person unable to access his inner resources and utilize his talents. Some persons get self motivated and come out of the moody state in a matter of time. Others will take more time to change mood. However there are a few who remains mood off most of the time. They become lazy and show no interest in anything. They work like machines and prefer to do routine works only. Habitual mood of states create relationship problems and financial setbacks in life. We have to consider it as a mental disorder and require external intervention.

          What is the role of NLP in reinstating mood? As we have discussed earlier that you cannot not think while you are awake and we think based on experiences that comprise mental images, sounds and feelings. What will be your mood if you are thinking of an event in which a person insults you in front of others? What will be the mood of a child if he unexpectedly fails in an exam? You look for a promotion and you offer a treat to your family and what will happen if you lose it? Definitely your mood gets off.

          In all the above cases what is happening? An image flashes into your mind and you start think of it automatically. You create images of subsequent events, other’s attitude, behaviour and approach towards you. You talk yourself in a pessimistic way. You will be anxious about what next? If you have financial setback you definitely will be worried about your projected plans.  So you have created a picture that makes you feel bad. What else do you require for an off mood! All human beings experience mood off states throughout their life regardless of their age.

         

          So it is very clear that your experience does not create ‘off moods’ but how you perceive and process the experience in your internal world creates the moody condition. So what are the solutions? Either change your process of thinking which means view the experience on a different perspective or stop thinking which is not possible hence change the subject of thinking. What moms do when baby cries? Baby cries either of off moods or of some physical problems. Mom shows the moon at the sky and tells ‘baby, my pearl, how beautiful is the moon, it calls you’. She is trying to replace the negative image with a positive one! It is not easy to change the process of thinking or replace the negative images because it is the human nature to hold on the negative images and to be worried and distressed about it. However it is possible to change the moods with simple NLP techniques.

NLP Technique to Change Moods:

1. Notice the images, sounds and feelings in your inner world.

2. Find the location of feelings on the body (say for example on chest, throat, stomach      etc) and know its direction of spin (just concentrate on the location and just watch        it,  you will get).

3.  Notice your physiology and breathing at your unwanted moody state.

4. Think of what is the most useful and encouraging state for you.

5. Move the negative images away and replace them with positive images (images of      your God, best friend, best place, wonderful experiences etc) that encourage you and    make you feel the way you want to feel.
6. Tell yourself your favourite quotes of positive thinking to empower you and to           erase  the negative feeling.

7. Replace your negative internal talks (what a shame, I’m a failure, I’m unlucky etc)     with positive encouraging statements (I Can, Nothing is Impossible, God is with         me etc).

8. Appreciate yourself of your best qualities and achievements.

9. Find the location of the new positive feelings and make it spin in the opposite              direction of the unwanted feeling.     

10.  Change the physiology and breathe differently.

11. Recall a memory of which you feel wonderful and see what you saw, hear what          you heard and elicit the wonderful feeling throughout the body.

12. Spin the new wonderful feeling in the direction of the positive feelings.

Read the above texts twice or thrice and understand the NLP concept of it and try to change your mood. Also you can help others to change moods.