Anger is a Toxic Brain Chemical

Anger is a toxic brain chemical. Like toxic chemicals out in the world, it can have short-term explosive power that seems to propel you forward. It gives you an endorphin rush and makes you “feel good.” This is short-lived.

Eventually, it corrodes the mind, corrodes the heart, corrodes the very essence of your being. Whatever anger rules, it eventually destroys – a person, a nation, a world. We must decide, as conscious creators, if it’s an energy we wanted creating our world.

The scientific evidence for this beyond question. Anger literally destroys our health, if we allow it to persist and become our way of being. Like other addictive substances, it lies to us. It makes us think we’re doing something constructive and anger always craves more anger.

The Japanese research Masuru Emoto wrote a series of best-selling books back in the 1990s called Messages from Water. He demonstrated, despite some scientists claiming it was pseudo-science, that water has memory. When it forms into ice crystals after being exposed to emotion, it tends to become beautiful and symmetric from positive emotion and damaged and sick looking after exposure to negative energy.

Think about that! You are about 75 percent water. The planet’s surface is about 75 percent water. How damaging could all the negativity on the planet right now be?

You don’t need his experiment to prove this to yourself. How do you feel when you’ve let anger get the best of you? Often you feel like you “need a shower.”

We’ve seen a lot of anger in the world in the stressful moment of the past year. Some of the issues driving the anger a legitimate. However, we must ask ourselves. Can this toxic brain chemical produce the positive change we seek or will it just drag us, our nations, and civilization down into its black hole of destruction?

Anger is an alert system like fear. They are meant to let us know there is something in our environment we should be reacting to. However, neither is a solution or strategy. They always fail and destroy when used in that way.

Once our anger has alerted us to the need for change, it must be transformed into a productive energy, brain chemical that can actually bring positive and productive change. Anger alone will consume all in its path, beginning with the angry person.

Let love, let peace, let a positive vision for change rule you. They are the clean energy of emotions. They are the constructive means of achieving that which you hope to achieve.

Affirmations:

  • Anger destroys me until I let it go. Today I let it go.
  • I release my anger and transform it into a more productive energy.
  • I refuse to let anger destroy me or destroy my world.
  • I choose love over anger.
  • I choose peace over anger.
  • I choose positive change over angry reaction.

Just in case no one else has reminded you today, you are awesome!

Ray

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Time-Crunched Self-Talk – Day 238 of 365 Days to a Better You

“I’m going to be late. Damn it! I’m always late. There’s just not enough time. I wish I had more time! I just have so much to do.”

This may be an extreme example (minus the explicative), but do you find yourself engaged in time-crunched self-talk? I know I do. I know I get hurried, rushed, and convinced I don’t have enough time to “get it all done.”

Consider slowing down to speed up.

We can all agree that time is valuable and that our human existence is finite. However, our relationship to time, in the modern world, is one of slave and master. It’s destructive and it’s unhealthy. And you thought it was just your charming Type-A personality.

We use words like deadline, due date, drop dead date. We attach adjectives like looming. Our subservience to our time commitments, even at the expense of our well-being, is astonishing.

I have questions for you. Is anyone actually going to die, if your report is a day late? Will your company go out of business? Will it’s stock crash? Ok, yes, there is that .01 percent of the time where that is true. The other 99.99 percent of the time it’s not even close to true. Yet, we break ourselves as if it were.

One of the first questions I always ask when I take on a project, “Is your date a real date…a real business or moral imperative or is it a date someone made up out of thin air?”

Guess what? Most deadlines and due dates really aren’t.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t be a person of your word. I am saying take a breath. I am saying most of the time emergencies in our lives…the ones we self-talk to ourselves at the stoplight you just missed…are total fiction.

Why stress so much? The only person that’s dying when you do, is you.

Power hack: Here are some simple tips you can apply when you feel the time crunch stress and the self-talk starts flowing.

  1. Thought stopping is a fantastic technique to use with any kind of negative self-talk.
  2. Tick-marking is a technique I created many years ago. You literally have have a sheet of paper and a pen. Every time you think a time crunching thought, make a tick mark on the sheet. It’s a great way to notice how often it’s happening and bring more awareness.
  3. Ask for more time. As I mentioned above, few deadlines really are. You’ll be surprised how often the answer will be yes, if you ask.
  4. There’s actually plenty of time. If you stop rushing through life worried there’s not enough time, you’ll find there’s plenty of time. Fill your day up with life not worrying about time.
  5. Make time serve you. Don’t be a slave to time. Make it your tool.
  6. There’s no moral imperative for you to risk your health for imaginary dates.
  7. Lose the time aphorisms. We have a million time aphorisms in our culture telling us why hurry, hurry, hurry is the only way to be. It’s not. That’s just a paradigm.
  8. Regroup. Take a breath. Take a break. Take a walk.

Our time is finite, but we expand it by not stressing over it so much. slow down.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great Saturday!

Ray

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Weight Management Affirmations

Today I am posting some affirmations for weight management and weight loss. Always remember that who you are is FAR more than a number on a scale. Reach for your health, not a number. Love yourself no matter what, but if you are working on losing some pounds, these affirmations will help.

Be well. Be peaceful. Be prosperous.

Ray

  1. I live healthy! I weigh healthy! I am healthy!
  2. Today and everyday, I choose my long-term well being over satisfying a momentary craving.
  3. Who I am transcends a number on a scale! Today I focus on my health not my weight!
  4. Today the scale is my friend. Day after day, it faithfully records success after success!
  5. Pound by pound, I am winning a great victory!
  6. My weight loss lives within me! My diet is just a tool to help me achieve my goals.
  7. My commitment to my goal weight is TOTAL! Today I AM achieving it.
  8.  I love and accept myself at my current weight, even as I march pound by pound to my goal weight.
  9. Food is simply nourishment. Today I receive all the comfort I need to from the beautiful people in my life.
  10. A fit, healthy person lives within me. Today that person emerges!
  11. Today I am one pound closer to my weight loss goal.
  12. Today nothing, and I mean NOTHING, stands between me and my goal weight!
  13. Rep by rep and step by step, the inches melt away!
  14. Today I see myself at my goal weight. I see the clothes I wear and the experiences I have. I hear the compliments I receive!
  15. As my self-confidence rises, the number on the scale drops!
  16. Today I make peace with food in my life and my healthy weight follows!
  17. When I look in the mirror, I see the healthy person I am becoming.
  18. Today I am shedding pounds as I shred my self-doubt!
  19. Today I am absolutely aligned with my goal weight. I’ll be there before I know it!
  20.  The only plus size in my life today is my determination to live at a healthy weight!
  21.  My contributions to life measure my self-worth, not the scale!
  22. My commitment is NOT to a number on a scale! My commitment is to ME!
  23. Day by day, I am losing this weight and the people around me are taking notice.
  24. Choice by choice and step by step, I am attaining my goal weight!
  25. Today my life is about purpose NOT pounds! As my purpose grows, the pounds melt!

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Affirmations from The Affirmation Spot for Thursday May 3, 2012

Thursday greetings, my friends. Here are today’s affirmations. Have a fantastic day!

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  1. Success Affirmation: I mobilize success! I multiply success! I magnify success!
  2. Wealth Affirmation: I am the heir to an abundant Universe and today I claim my inheritance!
  3. Health Affirmation: Breathing in, I feel healthy. Breathing out, I am healthy!
  4. Love Affirmation: I expect love! I experience love! I embrace love!
  5. Peace Affirmation: Today I am the epicenter for a pandemic of peace in my world.

Stay inspired! You are the engine of your dreams!

Ray

Ray Davis is the Founder of The Affirmation Spot and focuses on empowering minds to think positively, achieve goals, and live dreams. He is author of the ebook The Power to Be You and the forthcoming The Power to Be You 2: 1001 Power Thoughts for Daily Life.

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July 16 Affirmations

I am going to begin semi-regular topical affirmations of the day posts. These will be affirmations in several popular categories all in one post. If there is a category you’d like to see added for future posts, please leave a comment.

May at least one of these hit the spot for you today!

Stay inspired!

Ray

  • Wealth Affirmation: As my mind expands and expects wealth in my life, my wallet opens to receive it.
  • Career Affirmation: Today is day! The job of my dreams is coming my way!
  • Business Affirmation: Today and every day, I build my business on the foundations of integrity, determination, and vision.
  • Sales Affirmation: I am the very embodiment of a sales professional. Customers are attracted to that and buy what I’m selling.
  • Health Affirmation: My immune system is healthy, strong, and protecting me.
  • Gym Affirmation: Step by step and rep by rep, I am building my ideal body.
  • Recovery Affirmation: Moment by moment and brick by brick, I am building a life of things more important than my addiction.
  • Spiritual Affirmation: My connection to spirit (God, the Universe) is stronger than ever before!
  • Relationship Affirmation: When I am ready my ideal relationship appears. I am ready today!
  • Writer Affirmation: Whenever I meet a blank page amazing things happen!
  • Education Affirmation: Today I release my mental blocks to taking tests and ace them instead!
  • Nature Affirmation: The Earth is an amazing blessing and every day I find ways to appreciate it.