"Oook aaaa laacckkka miccccckkkaa!!!!!"

When you are in a bad mood, have you ever wondered why you can become more and more negative?

You feel more and more awful then you continue adding a continuous stream of thoughts that will make cause yourself to feel deeply upset?

The mind is an amazing thing. It will start down a path and continue on that same path until it is interrupted.

Awareness is amazing. You could mess up your day without it, or you can interrupt and set your mind on a different path as soon as you realize you are heading for what I like to refer to the "Funk".

Have you ever been in a fight with your friend or spouse. It seems things are escalating they are getting more and more intense. The forced words are now yells.

This is where the ultimate proof of the amazing power of awareness and distraction can come in. This weekend my mentor Mr. Mark Michaud was teaching us what to do in the event you feel more and more upset and the communication has become more about who is right and who is wrong.

He says give it a big "Oook aaaa laacckkka miccccckkkaa!!!!!". What in the world am I talking about here? Has this writer gone completely nuts!.

Here is the deal. Come up with a funny phrase that you can say. This should distract you from your position of opposition, but more importantly it will get your mind off of the same destructive path that it has carved into you brain over time through spaced repetition. It puts a temporary road block, then it will cause your mind to jump into a different place.

The best part about this technique. . . You are making a conscious decision to not take yourself so serious, in fact you might even laugh, and when your spouse knows they won the argument because their partner has taken the "crazy" card then they may even calm down and laugh too.

This is my silly word, get your own. Use it with when you talk to yourself too------- You may not realize this but you talk to your self over 50,000 times in the course of a day!!! More then with any other person------- This same technique can prevent your inner conversations from going down hill in a hurry as well.

Self Talk is a great subject for another day though. . .

Joshua Andrus
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