I've learned to just keep saying to myself "find the better feeling thought--find the better feeling thought--"
It works but it's not what you're used to if you're feeling down. The Hicks books say that if you're at depression, you don't have access to ultimate happiness in that MOMENT. But you can move up the scale, by feeling a LITTLE better, and so forth. I think eventually, your "set point" increases. For myself my bad feelings go through cycles but I'm learning to refuse to go all the way down to the bottom again. It's a habit you cultivate by practice.
What I have noticed is real resitance to searching for those better feeling thoughts. We are addicted to our pain and it's challenging to let go of that addiction.
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