Ever faced a situation in which you are talking negatively about yourself in your mind. With every situation that passes the

negative state of mind gets worse and worse. You know that affirmation could help. You try to spew out some empowering words but negative words have more potency and they are now as big as sharks to clownfish positive words..

Here’s what you can do.

Store your best memories, Things you are grateful for, Things you are proud of doing and were the best time of your life into a smell of your choice. It could be anything. Your favorite flower, fruit or a jam. Try to choose something with a strong aroma. Fruit Jam works great for me as it is always available in my house.

How to store them??

Basically, you have to link smell to feel. Remember how a particular smell sometimes brings a particular feeling like smelling new books or sometimes smelling a dish reminds us of our mother or grandma. It’s similar and is called anchoring in NLP.

So every time you smell the item you have chosen. You have to think of all the good memories you have as described before. Do it for a couple of days. Never store different emotions in one smell, it might reduce the effectiveness. I use different smells for motivation, gratefulness, disgust, surprise. Disgust works to break patterns of habits you want to break but having difficulty breaking.

Once you are done with this all you have to do is every time a particular kind of emotion arises, store it in that category.

Whenever you are feeling down and words don’t help, rush to the smell of object in my case jam and smell it completely with stomach and think of all emotions and memories you have associated with the smell. After a while you don’t even have to try recalling memory, it will come automatically.

The onset of really good emotion would break your thought pattern and change it from worry mode to solution mode. That’s all you need. You now have changed your frame of mind and escaped from the depressing black hole.

I used to waste an almost whole day before implementing this. Today I snapped out of depression within an hour without it getting out of my hands.

Hope this makes sense and it helps you in some way.

Peace