examine your emotional habits (Secular)

Excerpted from a Tony Robbins blog:
Identify your emotional habits. How do you live your life? What beliefs limit you? Where do you live emotionally? When you grow accustomed to certain emotions you don’t notice how they impact you on a daily basis. You may not realize if you’re stuck in a negative emotional loop – you just believe you’re reacting as would anyone. But our unique emotional habits can have profound influence on the way we look at life, the way we act and how good we are at letting go of the past.

By identifying your emotional habits, you can shift toward actively conditioning yourself toward a more positive experience. You can train yourself to feel frustrated, sad, stressed or even depressed after a challenging situation arises. Or you can train yourself to feel passionate, joyful and strong, even when something bad happens in your life. You can learn how to let go of the past in a way that makes you feel lighter and freer instead of fearful.

When you catch yourself falling into a negative emotional habit, try to cut off the thought and switch gears immediately. The more you condition yourself, the more wired those emotions become and the more easily you can adapt to any situation thrown your way... To condition your mind, feed yourself empowering stories. Surround yourself with people who make you better and put yourself in a peak state. Work on cultivating a thriving garden instead of a dry patch of weeds. It’s the small things you do every day that build momentum and create change.