Harry Potter:
I am a bit curious to know your level of success in switching your mood. Would you mind giving specific examples of your past mood that get switched to felicitous moods? If yes, what kind of felicitous moods do they get switched to? For instance, were you feeling insecure before your focusing on this point enabled you to feel happy? If yes, what are you now feeling happy about? What aspect of this newfound felicity prevents the previous insecurity to wreak havoc again in this moment?
Hello
I have not been into a situation of insecurity or something that will trigger strong feelings/emotions, so don’t know how that will turn out to be, will be interesting to find that out.
What i had previously accepted as a normal or neutral mood has an underlining irritation, a feeling of something missing but cant help or an it’s ok feel to it. Focusing the attention at this spot is helping to ease out this disquiet and get into a good mood.
This has also worked for me when being caught up in loop of thinking / emoting about what i would call as life issues, but this takes first noticing or being aware that i am into this cycle. I don't know how and why this works, but many times while trying to reason out the why for feeling bad, i really did not find any valid reasons for that either.
The HAIETMOBA, question helps me catch the brooding or this insane cycle of thinking / feeling / emoting. Trying to find the issues or reason for feeling bad always shows up one thing, no matter what the problem is, this behavior is not helpful with the problems at hand in fact it just comes in the way or adds to the problem. Indulging in this behaviors of thinking / emoting or futurizing / justifying in an imaginary dialogue is silly. Calling it silly works for me, classifying it as good / bad or right / wrong just adds to the complexity.
Thanks for your questions; they help me investigate it further.
Sanjay