Have you ever been associated with people who always bring you down? Their thoughts, emotional expression, energy level, negativity and cynical attitude impacts you and you feel down, depressed and less energetic.
    Likewise, have you ever been around people who seem to elevate your mood and inspire you? The way they talk, the ideas they share, how they express their feelings, their enthusiastic energy level and positive attitude, lifts your spirits and you feel better. You feel uplifted and more energized.
    When you wrap your moods and feelings around others, you have empowered them to influence, even control your own emotional life. Therefore, you may wish to pick and choose those people with whom you associate.
    Even better, take responsibility for your own emotions and feelings. Become the gatekeeper of your own heart. Let negative people in only when you feel emotionally strong enough to personally balance their negative impact. Let positive people in all the time.
    Better still, fill your thinking time with affirmations, conceptualizations, ideas, visualizations and memories that are personally enjoyable, positive, goal-directed, beneficial to those around you. Then you can emotionally afford to let everyone into your heart. You might even uplift them.
    When two or more people share their joy and delight, the interaction can become sensational. Just like when two master tennis players play their best games with one another, the overall match is enjoyed by everyone. The quality of the match is more than the combination of individual play. The pleasure experienced by everyone is greater than the sum of the delight experienced by the two individual players. Such a phenomenon is called synergy.
    The nature, quality and value of your life is created and determined by the nature, quality and value of your habitual thinking patterns. If you are unhappy with your situation or circumstance, begin changing it by first changing your thinking habits.
    Practice filling your mind with affirmations and images of you functioning within your desired lifestyle. Write down your affirmations and imaginings, your hopes and dreams. Record them and listen to them regularly. Collect pictures of your desired outcomes. Put self-esteem affirmations on your mirror. Regularly, paint, draw or sculpt your visualizations.
    The content of your daily thought determines your attitude, your emotional responses, your creativity and your view of yourself and your world. Is your thinking depressing or uplifting?