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Tom was running very fast but unfortunately not fast enough to escape the man who was behind him, tom reached a dead end and he was shot down, few moments later the police arrived and the criminal was arrested, the criminal was shouting, he was repeating the same phrase over and over, this phrase was:

“I can’t believe I did that, I wasn’t thinking about anything else rather than taking revenge, how come did I do this!!!”

But just a second, didn’t that criminal have any other options rather than killing tom?
Why then did he that he wasn’t thinking about anything but revenge?

accessing your mind's resources

The answer is very simple, because when you are experiencing any emotional state you have access only to certain parts of your mind resources and knowledge, and so you have fewer options.

anger and mind resources

Sounds weird? Just watch yourself when you become angry, watch the kind of suggestions that your mind sends to you, those suggestions are usually destructive, harmful and aggressive. Like for example:

• “damn that guy, I should have broken his neck”
• “ if that stupid device didn’t respond I will give it a kick
• “ill smash his car’s door if he didn’t remove it from here within 5 minutes”
• “if those fools didn’t respond to me now I will deface their web site”
• and finally “I guess I have no other choice, I will kill tom”

Just think of all the information, the knowledge that you have collected throughout your life and your mind recourses as a pie chart, when you are angry you accesses only a part of this pie chart, when you are afraid you will access a different part and so on.

Since the decisions you take are just the result of arranging the information that you have, your options will be limited when experiencing any kind of emotion because you will have limited information.

ok so how can I access all my mind resources all the time

So you may be wondering how can you access almost 100% of your knowledge data base?

Simply by being relaxed, relaxed people give much more balanced opinions and take much more correct decisions. That’s why self confident people seem to be acting very naturally, because they are relaxed. When you are relaxed you are actually accessing one hundred percent of your mind resources.

Did that help?

No, not until you tell me how to force relaxation

No, still I may not be able to control my emotions

Well yes but how can I manage my anger?