QuoteUP!!! 4....Tony Robbins on Movement

"Motion creates emotion"

-Anthony Robbins

What do you feel like? - your feeling is the manifestation of your emotions. Your emotions can be manipulated (that is not a bad word). You can override the natural state you are in by MOVING. It doesn't require running a marathon either.

Try something stupid - well, you will think it is stupid. Right now, start to chuckle, then giggle, then laugh, then laugh hard, then side-splittingly move into a bust of the gut. Continue in "bust-a-gut" for as long as you can.

Then - stop.

How do you feel compared to how you felt before? - depending on how much you went for it in the exercise, be cognizant of how long you stay in a changed state from when you began. Motion can be as simple as laughter. It can be a jump up and down and a fist pump. It can be 10 pushups. It can be a brisk walk around the block. It can be a stroll. It can be a quick run up the stairs.

Oh...one note on the laughter exercise - you are probably saying, "that's stupid, forced and contrived because nobody said or did anything funny. It's fake." No, what is fake is your belief. Laughter is laughter. I looked it up in the rulebook. There is no rule that says that you have to have an outside stimulus to laugh. If you did the exercise, you just proved it.

It's funny - if you did the exercise, you are feeling better right now. Admit it. You feel better. Yet, you will probably never do this again. We are a strange breed of cats. Most, if not all of us, would like to feel better. Even if we feel good, we want to feel better. Laughter is something that was given to us just by being born. It's free. It can be done on a seconds notice. It can be done anywhere. It has nothing but positive after-effects. It makes us feel better so it provides the answer to the issue of wanting to feel better....

...yet, left to your own devices - you won't do the laughter exercise again.

Instead - you will turn to alcohol, gambling, sex, watching TV or any of other 'socially acceptable" addictions to self-medicate from whatever pain is in your life.

Laughter - the best addiction that there is.