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Connect With How You Feel Right NowSo how do you feel right now? How far is that from the best feeling you have experienced recently? Have you stopped to analyse when your emotions are at their most positive? 
In the simplest terms you are at your best when you align with or remember that:• You are free • You are powerful • You are loved and loving • You are good • You are worthy • You have value • You have purpose • All is well If you believe in less than the above for yourself your emotions will rarely be at their most positive. Modern society has not encouraged you to closely monitor your emotional state, yet those emotions and feelings provide your primary source of accurate information in each moment as to whether you are moving in the direction of your choosing or against it. If you ignore your emotions you are abdicating your true power, and your self confidence will always be dependent upon what is happening outside of you. You may be confident when circumstances and events are exactly as you wish them to be, but when they are not you will stand powerless and unhappy. This is a trap! Yet one you can escape from, if you choose to. To plan any journey successfully you need to answer two questions: • Where are you now? • Where is your destination? The journey to self confidence is no different. Properly understood your emotions will perform as your personal guidance system that will in each moment offer you feedback as to whether you remain on your chosen path or whether you have made a brief detour away from what you do want. The stronger the negative emotion the more significant the detour. 
Attention to your in the moment emotions is necessary in order to understand everything that is happening to you. How best can you utilise your emotional feedback?If you experience positive emotions you are in alignment with what you do want. This means that: 1. You have been specific about what you do want 2. You are focused upon the presence or emergence of what you do want 3. You believe that you are worthy of and are not being resistant to what you do want 4. You savour and expand the positive feelings If you can maintain this alignment you will continue to experience the positive emotions, so simply put, keep doing what you’re doing. If you experience negative emotions you are out of alignment with what you do want. This means that: 1. You are clear on what you don’t want and unclear on what you do want 2. You are focused upon the presence of what you don’t want or the absence of what you do want 3. You do not believe that you are worthy of what you do want or you are in alignment with what you don’t want either consciously or unconsciously 4. You tolerate or suppress the negative feelings No matter where you feel you are on the Emotional Scale the thing that matters most is that you consciously reach for an improvement. It might prove tempting once you are aware of a negative emotion to attempt to transform it into a very positive one immediately, but such quantum leaps up the emotional scale are not encouraged or necessary. You just need to reach for relief, which is symptomatic of a reduction in your stress and resistance levels. Your emotional state will improve as soon as you can change your focus to what you do want: • If you can immerse yourself in an alternative activity • If you can refocus on a desirable subject • If you can remember something pleasing…. There is no one single solution to each emotional challenge, but if you can make it your intention to find a new thought, any thought, that produces a sense of relief, you can begin to move up the Emotional Guidance Scale immediately. Once you make a determined decision to continually reach for the relief that an improved emotion brings, you will find yourself feeling confident most of the time, and in that state of no stress and resistance you will reunite with your true power.
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