You might expect that an outside influence can make you feel better, and this is the basis of much of what we do discretionarily. Outside stimulants can make you feel better, but the more logical and obvious solution might be to closely examine how you feel. Once you have taken stock of and recognize exactly how you feel, then take a step to elevate that feeling. Since every feeling is somewhere on a continuum, work to move it up a notch. Take your feeling up a level, leading to progressively better thoughts, or higher thinking. You have an opportunity to optimize your feelings about past, present and future events. When you create feelings that are higher along a range of options, you build better memories, moments and expectations. You can elevate your feelings to achieve better thought, and thereby not be harnessed by negative experiences in your past, or by fears associated with the future.

When a feeling is attached to a thought or event, it has an entirely new reference point for retrieval, and you apply a label, by tagging it as important. This means you have the ability to not only change your thinking, but you can also change your feelings. If you are wondering whether you can elevate feelings as a choice, the answer is yes. On the continuum of feelings, to elevate from fear to joy might be a stretch, but if you are feeling doubt, you might take it up somewhat, to mere disappointment. If you feel anger, intentionally change it to a feeling of concern and empathy. If you feel hopeful, which is a positive emotion, this feeling can be upgraded to optimism. By continually striving to reach higher feelings you can attach stronger and more positive tags to your experiences.

How does this relate to outcomes? If you attach an emotional feel good tag to an objective, then it is more likely to occur, because as humans we usually seek pleasure and avoid pain, in a basic innate life over death choice of existence. Attach a positive feeling to your objective, and it is more likely to occur because you have emotionally tagged the outcome. You will go after it, unconsciously and consciously, towards realization.