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Emotional Mastery Main Text
Okay, welcome to the main audio for “Emotional Mastery.” So let’s talk about emotional
mastery in more detail now. How can you manage your emotions, how can you control,
I don’t like the word control, but let’s just say manage your emotions so that you feel
better and stronger while you’re learning English. So it’s easy to say that “Oh, feel good
when you’re learning English,” but unfortunately a lot of people feel bad when they’re
learning English. A lot of people feel bored. Or maybe just in your life in general, you’re
tired, you’re working hard, and it’s difficult to learn English also and still feel energetic
and happy.
So we have to learn some techniques, some methods to manage our emotions, to make
sure our emotions are feeling strong while we’re learning. And remember, again, that
emotion and psychology are 80% of success. And a lot of people talk about this in the
academic world. Dr. Stephen Krashen, again he’s the top expert on language
acquisition, language learning and language education, and he talks about this idea of
non‑linguistic factors. Which basically means psychological and emotional factors, that
they’re more important than the method you’re using. Tony Robbins, the famous peak
performance coach, talks about this as well. He says directly success comes from
emotion, 80% of success is emotion. The other 20% is the method, it’s how you do it.
So we’ve got to master our emotions to master English. How are you going to do to
that? Let’s talk about that now. There are two keys to emotional mastery. One is your
physiology, again it’s your body, how you use and manage your body. And second is
your focus, your mental focus. Now a lot of this comes from again Tony Robbins and
Joe Vitale and some other peak performance coaches so I’m using their information and
I’m applying it, I’m focusing it on this process of learning English and how can you take
those ideas and use them to increase your English learning power, so you learn faster,
so that you speak better. So again we have two ways to manage our emotions. One is
physiology, through the body. And the other is through focus, mental focus. What you
think about again and again and again.
In this lesson we’re going to talk about physiology, managing physiology. So this is an
easy way to change your emotional state. So let’s imagine that you are tired. You’ve
gone to work, you’ve worked a very long day. You’re tired. And you’re thinking “I don’t
want to study English.” How can you change that feeling? Well you can try to talk to
yourself “Oh, I should study, I should study, I should feel better,” but usually that doesn’t
work, right? Usually you still feel tired. What you have to do is start with your body.
Change your body. What does your body look like when you’re tired?
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Usually your shoulders are going to be forward. Is your head going to be up or is your
head going to be down? Well, usually when you’re tired you’re head is going to be a
little bit down, your chin will be kind of down. What about your face? Will you have a
big smile on your face or will your face be kind of loose? Well, it’s usually going to be
more use, right? You’re not usually smiling big when you feel tired. And your eyes,
where are your eyes looking usually when you’re tired? Again, down. So the whole
body tends to be forward and down when you feel tired. So an easy, very simple way to
change how you feel, how you physically feel, your emotion and in your body is to just
make small changes in the way you’re using your body.
Try it now. Lean forward. Put your shoulders forward. Put your chin down. Look down.
Put your body into a tired position, notice how you feel. Now let’s change it. Pull your
shoulders back and your chest up. Bring your chin up. Bring your eyes up. Look up.
And now, even if you don’t feel happy, I want you to smile really big. Put a big smile on
your face, fake it. Look stupid. Okay, so a big smile, shoulders back, chest up, eyes up
and a big stupid smile, a big grin, on your face. Do you feel differently now? You
probably do.
Just by changing the position of your body, I’m doing it right now myself, I can feel that I
feel more energetic. I feel happier just by shifting my body. When I go back and I put
my shoulders forward and my chin down and my eyes down, I can feel some energy
going down, right? The energy in my body gets less. When I pull my shoulders back,
my chest up, my chin up, my eyes up, I’m smiling big, just faking it, acting like a crazy
person, I feel much better. And you do, too. So that is such an easy way to change
how you feel, to change your emotional state just by shifting your body. It’s a simple
way to get control of your emotions and to master your emotions.
So here’s what I want you to do. Every time you listen to these lessons or any English
lessons or any kind of English studying, I want you to first change your body. Before
you listen to those lessons and while you’re listening, I want you to think about,
consciously think about pulling your shoulders back, pushing your chest up, chin up,
eyes up, and make yourself smile. You probably didn’t smile much in your English
classes when you were younger but this time I want you to smile even if you feel like
you are being stupid. It doesn’t matter, do it.
You’re going to change your body and by changing your body you’re going to feel better,
you’re going to have more energy. And when you have more energy, when you feel
better, you learn faster. There’s a lot of research about this. And it shows that people
who have more energy, who are feeling good emotionally, learn faster. People who are
tired and bored learn much more slowly.
What’s another way that you can change your emotion by changing your body? Well
another very easy way is through breathing. How you breathe determines the energy in
your body and how you feel. So for example if you have a very shallow breath, you’re
breathing very shallowly…small little breaths…tight chest. You’re going to feel different
than if you’re taking big breaths that are deep…that was just two breaths, already I can
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feel in my body a lot more energy. So taking deep breaths, it’s such a simple way and
yet it’s very powerful. That’s why in a lot of spiritual traditions, in Buddhism for example,
and also in martial arts, in sports, you find that they will focus on breathing. They will
tell their students to breathe more deeply. They have a very kind of controlled way of
breathing because they know by breathing very deeply they can change their emotional
state and their physical state. Increase their energy. Increase the aliveness in their
brain, the alertness in their brain.
So this is another thing I want you to do before you learn English. Any kind of studying,
these lessons or a book, anything, I want you to focus on breathing deeply. Maybe just
two minutes, for two minutes I want you to take deep breaths. Hold it for maybe 2, 3, 4
seconds and then let it out. Then do it again. Hold it…and breathe out…and again and
again, 1 or 2 minutes deep breathing. Of course at the same time remember you’re
changing how your body is moving and how you’re sitting.
You’re changing your posture. Of course posture means body position so you’re going
to have a strong posture. It means you’re going to have the shoulders back, your chin
up, your eyes up, chest out. That’s number one. And then number two you’re going to
breathe deeply. Hold…and out…and again. So again, strong posture, shoulders back,
chin up, eyes up and then deep breathing. Do this for 1 or 2 minutes every time before
you study English. I know it seems crazy, it seems so simple and yet it will totally
change the way you feel while you’re learning. Because you will feel differently you will
learn differently.
Just this simple, simple technique can increase your learning by two or three times, two
or three times faster because your brain will be awake when you’re listening to English.
When you’re bored, when you’re tired, your brain is half asleep. You’re just not learning
efficiently. When you’re breathing deeply and your body is in a strong posture you feel
better and you learn faster.
Of course the next factor we already talked about a little bit is your face. You gotta
control your face. Why? Because your face shows emotion. But your face also can
create emotion. Just by smiling big, pretending, looking like a stupid person, it doesn’t
matter. Just by faking it, just by making yourself smile bit you’ll actually change your
emotion. You’ll change your feeling. It’s very hard to feel depressed and tired when you
have a big smile, even if you’re forcing the smile.
So that’s another thing I want you to do. Everyone on the train will think you’re crazy
while you’re listening to Effortless English but I want you to have a big smile every time
while you’re listening to the lessons. Right now, do it. So you’re going to have a strong
posture. You’re going to breathe deeply. And you’re going to smile big, every time,
before, during and after your English lessons.
What’s another way we can control our physiology and therefore influence our
emotional state? Well another thing about the body is the body likes to move so we’re
going to talk about movement. You’re going to have a strong posture. You’re going to
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breathe deeply. You’re going to have a big grin on your face, smiling. And then you’re
going to move. Because movement creates energy and energy wakes up your body so
that you learn faster. I mentioned this in the introduction a little bit. We’re going to talk
about it more now in detail.
You should always be moving your body while you’re learning English. This is the
opposite of everything you learned in school. In school they told you “Don’t move. Sit
in your chair.” Right, so you’re sitting in your chair and what happened? Your body
became stiff, you became tired. You were bored. Well this is the opposite. You’re not
in school anymore. You’re learning independently and it means you’re in control now.
And so I want you to do the opposite of what happened in school.
I want you to move your body every time you’re learning English. This can be very
simple. If you’re sitting in a train, okay, it’s hard to walk around. So you could just
stretch your body. Consciously stretch, stretch your leg a little bit. Stretch your arm.
Move your head around in a circle. Small little stretches, just make sure your body is
moving even a little bit. Even better is to go for a walk. You have an iPod. You’re
listening to the lessons. Get outside. Walk on the street. Walk in the country. Walk in
the woods. It doesn’t matter. Get out and walk. Move your body. Keep your posture
strong while you’re walking. Shoulders back, chin up, eyes up, chest up…breathe
deeply while you walk. And of course, smile big while you’re walking.
Everyone will think you’re crazy. It doesn’t matter. Use this system. I promise you
you’re going to have a totally different experience while you’re learning English.
Nothing like the schools you went to before. So it’s very important. If you want to, if you
love to exercise, you can run while you’re learning English. Put on your running shoes.
Get some exercise in your body at the same time that you’re learning. You can do two
things at the same time. So walk or run. Keep that body moving at the same time
always. It’s going to keep energy coming into your body, flowing into your body. That
wakes up your brain and that makes you learn so much faster. Another idea is go to the
gym. Bring your iPod again and work out, lift weights or do whatever you do at the gym.
Again you’re using your body, engaging your body at the same time.
Okay so let me just review very quickly how you’re going to use physiology to master
your emotions. Number one, posture. Shoulders back, chin up, eyes up, chest up.
Number two, breathing…deep, deep breathing. Number three, your face. A big smile
every time you’re learning English. Even if you feel terrible, I don’t care. Smile big
while you’re listening to these lessons. And then finally, number four, movement.
You’re always going to be moving your body somehow. If you’re in your car, if you’re in
the train or the bus, you’re going to maybe make small movements. But ideally the best
thing to do is to be outside walking, moving that body, or in the gym, or even running.
So you’re going to change your physiology. Now what happens if after maybe 20
minutes, 30 minutes, you start to feel tired again. You’re listening to the lesson and
you’re starting to get a little bored “Oh, AJ keeps talking…oh god…oh I’m getting bored
with this.” Well, you can just quit…that’s what most people do. But don’t do that. What
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you need to do is just wake your body up again so pause. Pause that lesson. Stop.
Give yourself a little break. Change. Listen to some exciting fun music again. Get up,
dance around, move, smile big, get your posture strong again, breathe more deeply.
Wake up your body, maybe for 5 minutes…and then back to the lesson again. Do this
every time.
Anytime during a lesson you start to feel tired or bored, just pause. Take a break, a 5
minute break and wake up your body. So anytime during a mini‑story, during a main
article, during a vocabulary lesson, it doesn’t matter. Pause anytime you feel your
energy going down. Change, listen to your favorite music, jump around, move, make
your posture strong again, smile bigger. Start feeling great. Get that energy in your
body then return to the lesson again.
Okay, so that’s it for the main article here of “Emotional Mastery.” You’re going to focus
on your physiology. You’re going to focus on mastering your body, using your body to
change your emotions. Using your body to change the energy that you feel and
therefore using your body to learn English much, much faster.
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Emotional Mastery Mini-Story Text
Okay, welcome to the mini‑story for “Emotional Mastery.” Let’s get started.
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Vanilla wanted to be rich.
Who wanted to be rich?
Vanilla, Vanilla wanted to be rich.
Who was Vanilla?
Vanilla was a beautiful, intelligent woman.
What kind of woman was Vanilla?
She was a beautiful, intelligent woman.
And what did she want?
She wanted to be rich.
She said “Show me the money.”
What did she say?
She said “Show me the money.”
Who wanted a lot of money?
Vanilla, Vanilla wanted a lot of money.
She was beautiful. She was intelligent. But, unfortunately, she was poor. So
Vanilla went to Las Vegas. She went to Las Vegas to get rich.
Where did she go?
Las Vegas.
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Why did she go to Las Vegas?
To get rich, of course, she went to Las Vegas to get rich.
Who went to Las Vegas to get rich?
Vanilla, Vanilla went to Las Vegas to get rich.
She walked into Caesar’s Palace.
Where did she go?
Caesar’s Palace, she walked into Caesar’s Palace.
Did she run into Caesar’s Palace or did she walk into Caesar’s Palace?
She walked, she walked calmly into Caesar’s Palace.
What is Caesar’s Palace?
It’s a casino.
Caesar’s Palace is a casino.
Did Vanilla go to a casino in Japan?
No, no, no, no, no. She didn’t go to a casino in Japan. She went to a casino in Las
Vegas.
What was the casino’s name?
Caesar’s Palace, the casino’s name was Caesar’s Palace.
And where was it?
Las Vegas, it was in Las Vegas.
She walked into Caesar’s Palace with a big grin on her face.
Was Vanilla happy or sad?
She was happy. She had a big grin on her face. A big, huge smile.
Was she grinning or was she frowning?
She was grinning. She had a big smile on her face. She was grinning.
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Who, who was grinning?
Vanilla, Vanilla was grinning.
When was she grinning?
When she walked into Caesar’s Palace, when she walked into Caesar’s Palace she
was grinning.
Why?
Well, because she thought she was going to become rich.
She was grinning because she thought she was going to become rich. In fact,
she knew she was going to become rich.
Why was she grinning?
Because she knew she was going to become rich.
She walked to the blackjack table.
Which table did she walk to?
The blackjack table, she walked to the blackjack table.
Did she walk to the poker table?
No, no, no, no, no, no, not the poker table. She walked to the blackjack table.
Who walked to the blackjack table?
Vanilla, Vanilla walked to the blackjack table.
What was she doing when she walked to the blackjack table?
She was grinning, of course. She was grinning when she walked to the blackjack table.
She took out money from her pocket.
How much money did she take out of her pocket?
$6,000.00.
She took $6,000.00 out of her pocket.
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Where did she take it out of?
Out of her pocket, she took $6,000.00 out of her pocket.
Whose pocket?
Vanilla’s, Vanilla’s pocket, of course. Her own pocket. She took $6,000.00 out of her
own pocket.
She put the money on the table. She bet all of the money on the first game.
How much money did she bet?
Well, all of it, all $6,000.00. She bet all $6,000.00.
And did she win or did she lose?
Well, Vanilla lost.
Vanilla lost all her money. She was really, really poor. She cried, “Oh no, I lost all
my money.”
What about Warren Buffett?
Huh, who’s Warren Buffett?
Warren Buffett is the richest man in the world.
Does Warren Buffett play blackjack?
No.
Warren Buffett does not play blackjack.
What does he do?
He buys stocks.
He buys what?
He buys stocks. Stocks are parts of companies, like a piece of a company. So Warren
Buffett buys stocks. He goes to New York and buys stocks.
So Warren Buffett went to New York at the same time that Vanilla went to Las
Vegas.
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When Vanilla was in Las Vegas, where was Warren Buffett?
New York, he was in New York. Warren Buffett was in New York when Vanilla was in
Las Vegas.
Did Warren Buffett lose money in New York or make money?
He made money.
He made $60 billion.
How much money did Warren Buffett make?
He made $60 billion.
How much did Vanilla make?
Zero, she made no money. In fact, she lost money. Vanilla lost $6,000.00. Warren
Buffett made $60 billion.
Did Vanilla grin?
Well no.
First she cried. But then she changed her physiology. She pulled back her
shoulders. She put her chin up. And she grinned. She said “I will become rich.”
Did Warren Buffett grin after he made $60 billion?
No, he didn’t grin, he frowned.
Warren Buffett always frowns.
Who frowned?
Warren Buffett frowned.
And who grinned?
Well, Vanilla grinned. She cried and then she grinned.
Next, Vanilla went to Alaska.
Why did she go to Alaska?
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She went to Alaska to dig for gold.
What did she want to do?
She wanted to dig for gold.
Who wanted to dig for gold?
Vanilla, Vanilla wanted to dig for gold.
So she got a shovel and she started to dig. Every day she dug for gold, five days,
ten days, digging for gold, digging for gold. After sixty days, her back hurt.
Why did Vanilla’s back hurt?
Because she had bad posture, of course.
Vanilla had bad posture while she was digging.
Did she have good posture or did she have bad posture?
Vanilla had bad posture while she was digging.
What kind of posture did Vanilla have?
Bad, she had bad posture.
Was her back straight or was it bent?
It was bent. Her back was bent. She had bad posture while she was digging for gold.
Where did she have bad posture?
Well, in Alaska, she had bad posture in Alaska while she was digging for gold.
When, when did she have bad posture?
While she was digging for gold.
After ninety days, Vanilla’s back hurt and she had no money. She started to cry
“Oh, my back hurts. And I have no money.”
Did she cry, did she feel bad, was she depressed?
Yes, Vanilla was depressed.
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How did she feel?
Depressed.
Was she super‑sad?
Yes, she was depressed.
Why was Vanilla depressed?
Because her back hurt and she had no money.
But then Vanilla changed. She changed her posture again. She smiled. She
brought her shoulders back. She breathed deeply. She said “I will become rich.”
So she went to Singapore.
Where did Vanilla go next?
Singapore, that’s right, of course. Singapore, she went to Singapore.
Why did she go to Singapore?
Well, it’s obvious.
She went to Singapore to start a chili business.
What kind of business did she start?
A chili business, not a cold business. Chili, c-h-i-l-i, little pepers that you eat, very spicy.
She started a chili business.
Okay, so she grew chilis in her apartment. She grew chilis, hot chilis, in her
apartment and sold them to restaurants.
So she grew broccoli in her apartment and she sold them to restaurants?
Not broccoli, chilis, not broccoli…chilis. She grew chilis in her apartment and she sold
them to restaurants.
What did she sell?
Chilis, hot chilis, she sold hot chilis to restaurants.
In which city?
Singapore. In Singapore she sold hot chilis to restaurants.
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Where did she grow the chilis?
She grew them in her apartment. She grew them in her apartment then she sold them
to restaurants.
What did she sell to restaurants?
Hot chilis, she sold hot chilis to restaurants.
So, what did Vanilla want?
Vanilla wanted to be rich.
Where did she go first?
Las Vegas, she first went to Las Vegas. She played blackjack. She lost all her money.
Where did she go next?
Alaska.
She went to Alaska, she dug for diamonds and she got a bad painful back?
No, no, no, no, no, she didn’t dig for diamonds. She dug for gold. She went to Alaska,
she dug for gold. But her posture was bad so her back hurt. No money and a painful
back. And finally she went to Singapore. She grew hot chilis in her apartment and sold
them to restaurants.
And she made $28 billion. She became the Queen of Hot Chilis…the Asian Queen
of Hot Chilis. Vanilla became super‑rich. She got the money.
Did Vanilla become super‑rich?
Oh yes, she did.
How much money did she make? $26 billion?
Oh no.
$27 billion?
No, no, no. $28 billion, Vanilla made $28 billion. She was beautiful. She was
intelligent. And finally, she was super‑rich.
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Okay, that is the end of the mini‑story for “Emotional Mastery.” How about you? Was
your posture good during this lesson? Were you smiling while you listened? Were you
breathing deeply…while you listened? Were you moving your body as you listened to
this story? I hope so. You should. If not, it’s okay but next time, next time be sure.
Strong posture, deep breathing, big grin and moving your body as you listen to the
story. And one more thing you can do. If you’re at home, if you can be loud, you can
listen to the story and shout your answers.
So if I say “What was her name?” you shout “Vanilla.” You can do this in the train on the
bus, too, if you want to. In San Francisco we have a lot of crazy people so if you do
something like this nobody cares. So you can do that, too. But if you feel strange about
shouting in public, then maybe do it at home. If you listen at home, you know, stand up,
move your body and shout the answers. Loud, strong posture, don’t be shy about
speaking English. Teach yourself to be strong when you speak English. And
remember, posture, breathing, big smile, big grin and move your body as you listen to
every lesson.
Okay.
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Emotional Mastery Vocabulary Text
Okay, welcome to the vocabulary lesson for “Emotional Mastery.” Let’s get started.
A few of the words I used in the main speech, the main article. First let’s talk about
posture. Posture. So posture means the position of your body, it’s how you stand or sit.
So we talk about good posture, for example. Good posture means your shoulders are
back. Your back is straight, your chin is up. That’s what we usually call good posture.
And bad posture would mean, you know again, you’re leaning forward. Your shoulders
are forward. Your back is not straight. So again, posture just means the position of
your body, how you position your body. How you hold your body, that’s posture.
Another word I used was grin. A grin can be a noun, it’s a thing. Or it can be a verb, it’s
something you do. So to grin means to smile, but to smile in a big way. When you grin,
you’re not using a small smile. You’re using a very, very big smile. Again, it’s also a
noun so if you have a very big smile on your face, we say that is a grin. He has a big
grin. You could use both, I guess. You could say he is grinning a big grin. Okay, so
grin again is a large smile or the act of doing a large smile.
Another phrase I used was “tends to be.” He tends to be an angry person. Tends to be
means usually is. So he usually is an angry person. He tends to be an angry person.
So it’s something that usually happens, usually is true, mostly is true. But not always,
not always. So I could say, Tomoe tends to be happy. It means she usually is happy.
It’s her normal thing to do or normal thing to feel. But not always, sometimes she’s not
happy. So tends to be, usually is or often is or mostly is.
Okay, another word I used was shifting. Shifting your body and the verb is to shift. To
shift your body means to move it. It really means kind of to change its position. A shift
is a change of position. So if I have my head down and then I shift it, then maybe I
move it to a different position. Now it’s up. I shifted from down to up. We use this in
other areas, not just body. You can use it for driving, for example. When you’re driving
you can shift from first gear to second gear. Or reverse, you’re going backwards, then
you stop, you shift the car and you change and you go forward. So again, you’re
changing the gear’s position. Okay, so shift is a change in position.
I used the word shallow, shallow breath or shallow breathing. And I also used the word
deep, deep breathing or a deep breath. So they’re opposites, of course. Deep, we also
use this with water, for example. Deep water means water that goes down very far.
Shallow water means water that’s not very deep, right? It’s the opposite, water that
does not go down far. So shallow breathing is the same idea. It means breathing that
is very small, that doesn’t go down into your body very much. So…that’s shallow
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breathing, right? It’s small little breaths. The air does not go down deep into the body.
That is shallow breath or shallow breathing. And the opposite is deep. Deep breathing
is…right, the air goes down into my body very far, very deeply. But shallow…does not
go deeply. Okay, so we use this a lot with breathing. Shallow breathing and deep
breathing, they’re opposites.
Another word I used is force, to force, using it as a verb, an action. To force something
or to force yourself to do something. It’s a very common phrase. The whole thing
again, to force yourself to do something. For example, force yourself to smile. So force
means to try hard. It has an idea that you don’t want to do it but you do it anyway. You
make yourself do something difficult. You make yourself do something maybe you don’t
want to do. So you use effort. You use your energy. You use your power to do
something. So when you force something it’s the opposite of really relaxed. It’s the
opposite of doing it effortlessly. So force yourself to smile means use your energy.
Make yourself smile, even if you don’t want to. Use energy. Force it. Try hard to smile.
So that’s to force yourself to do something.
Another word I used is depressed or depression. So depression is the noun, depressed
is the feeling, it’s an adjective. Like I feel depressed, it’s how you feel. So depressed
means very, very sad. Feeling very, very sad and bad about yourself, about your life,
about everything. So if you say “I’m sad,” usually that’s more specific, you have a
reason. I’m sad about something. I’m sad because I lost my job. But if you’re
depressed, it’s a very more general kind of feeling. You’re depressed about everything
usually. “I’m depressed because I lost my job and I have no money and I don’t have a
girlfriend,” many reasons. Depression is deeper than just sadness.
So again, to be depressed, you say “I am depressed” or “I have depression.” This is a
general kind of rule in English. It’s not always, but generally we say “I have a noun…a
thing.” I have depression. Not I have depressed. Say, I have depression. But if you’re
talking about an adjective, then you use “am”. I am depressed. They mean basically
the same thing. I have depression means I have the feeling of being depressed. I am
depressed is more common. It just means I feel very, very, very sad.
Okay, well that is the end of the vocabulary lesson for “Emotional Mastery.” Listen to it a
couple of times. In general the vocabulary lessons are the least important lesson. So if
you listen to them a few times, if they’re boring, if you understand them all, it’s fine, you
can skip the vocabulary. I want you to focus mostly on the main article, the main
speech and on the mini‑story. Those are the two most important lessons. The
vocabulary gives you a quick little lesson about some of the words and phrases. Listen
to it a few times until you know these words, but once you know the words focus on the
main story, the main article and on the mini‑story.
Okay, I will see you in the next lesson.
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Emotional Mastery Main Text
Okay, welcome to the main audio for “Emotional Mastery.” So let’s talk about emotional
mastery in more detail now. How can you manage your emotions, how can you control,
I don’t like the word control, but let’s just say manage your emotions so that you feel
better and stronger while you’re learning English. So it’s easy to say that “Oh, feel good
when you’re learning English,” but unfortunately a lot of people feel bad when they’re
learning English. A lot of people feel bored. Or maybe just in your life in general, you’re
tired, you’re working hard, and it’s difficult to learn English also and still feel energetic
and happy.
So we have to learn some techniques, some methods to manage our emotions, to make
sure our emotions are feeling strong while we’re learning. And remember, again, that
emotion and psychology are 80% of success. And a lot of people talk about this in the
academic world. Dr. Stephen Krashen, again he’s the top expert on language
acquisition, language learning and language education, and he talks about this idea of
non‑linguistic factors. Which basically means psychological and emotional factors, that
they’re more important than the method you’re using. Tony Robbins, the famous peak
performance coach, talks about this as well. He says directly success comes from
emotion, 80% of success is emotion. The other 20% is the method, it’s how you do it.
So we’ve got to master our emotions to master English. How are you going to do to
that? Let’s talk about that now. There are two keys to emotional mastery. One is your
physiology, again it’s your body, how you use and manage your body. And second is
your focus, your mental focus. Now a lot of this comes from again Tony Robbins and
Joe Vitale and some other peak performance coaches so I’m using their information and
I’m applying it, I’m focusing it on this process of learning English and how can you take
those ideas and use them to increase your English learning power, so you learn faster,
so that you speak better. So again we have two ways to manage our emotions. One is
physiology, through the body. And the other is through focus, mental focus. What you
think about again and again and again.
In this lesson we’re going to talk about physiology, managing physiology. So this is an
easy way to change your emotional state. So let’s imagine that you are tired. You’ve
gone to work, you’ve worked a very long day. You’re tired. And you’re thinking “I don’t
want to study English.” How can you change that feeling? Well you can try to talk to
yourself “Oh, I should study, I should study, I should feel better,” but usually that doesn’t
work, right? Usually you still feel tired. What you have to do is start with your body.
Change your body. What does your body look like when you’re tired?
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Usually your shoulders are going to be forward. Is your head going to be up or is your
head going to be down? Well, usually when you’re tired you’re head is going to be a
little bit down, your chin will be kind of down. What about your face? Will you have a
big smile on your face or will your face be kind of loose? Well, it’s usually going to be
more use, right? You’re not usually smiling big when you feel tired. And your eyes,
where are your eyes looking usually when you’re tired? Again, down. So the whole
body tends to be forward and down when you feel tired. So an easy, very simple way to
change how you feel, how you physically feel, your emotion and in your body is to just
make small changes in the way you’re using your body.
Try it now. Lean forward. Put your shoulders forward. Put your chin down. Look down.
Put your body into a tired position, notice how you feel. Now let’s change it. Pull your
shoulders back and your chest up. Bring your chin up. Bring your eyes up. Look up.
And now, even if you don’t feel happy, I want you to smile really big. Put a big smile on
your face, fake it. Look stupid. Okay, so a big smile, shoulders back, chest up, eyes up
and a big stupid smile, a big grin, on your face. Do you feel differently now? You
probably do.
Just by changing the position of your body, I’m doing it right now myself, I can feel that I
feel more energetic. I feel happier just by shifting my body. When I go back and I put
my shoulders forward and my chin down and my eyes down, I can feel some energy
going down, right? The energy in my body gets less. When I pull my shoulders back,
my chest up, my chin up, my eyes up, I’m smiling big, just faking it, acting like a crazy
person, I feel much better. And you do, too. So that is such an easy way to change
how you feel, to change your emotional state just by shifting your body. It’s a simple
way to get control of your emotions and to master your emotions.
So here’s what I want you to do. Every time you listen to these lessons or any English
lessons or any kind of English studying, I want you to first change your body. Before
you listen to those lessons and while you’re listening, I want you to think about,
consciously think about pulling your shoulders back, pushing your chest up, chin up,
eyes up, and make yourself smile. You probably didn’t smile much in your English
classes when you were younger but this time I want you to smile even if you feel like
you are being stupid. It doesn’t matter, do it.
You’re going to change your body and by changing your body you’re going to feel better,
you’re going to have more energy. And when you have more energy, when you feel
better, you learn faster. There’s a lot of research about this. And it shows that people
who have more energy, who are feeling good emotionally, learn faster. People who are
tired and bored learn much more slowly.
What’s another way that you can change your emotion by changing your body? Well
another very easy way is through breathing. How you breathe determines the energy in
your body and how you feel. So for example if you have a very shallow breath, you’re
breathing very shallowly…small little breaths…tight chest. You’re going to feel different
than if you’re taking big breaths that are deep…that was just two breaths, already I can
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feel in my body a lot more energy. So taking deep breaths, it’s such a simple way and
yet it’s very powerful. That’s why in a lot of spiritual traditions, in Buddhism for example,
and also in martial arts, in sports, you find that they will focus on breathing. They will
tell their students to breathe more deeply. They have a very kind of controlled way of
breathing because they know by breathing very deeply they can change their emotional
state and their physical state. Increase their energy. Increase the aliveness in their
brain, the alertness in their brain.
So this is another thing I want you to do before you learn English. Any kind of studying,
these lessons or a book, anything, I want you to focus on breathing deeply. Maybe just
two minutes, for two minutes I want you to take deep breaths. Hold it for maybe 2, 3, 4
seconds and then let it out. Then do it again. Hold it…and breathe out…and again and
again, 1 or 2 minutes deep breathing. Of course at the same time remember you’re
changing how your body is moving and how you’re sitting.
You’re changing your posture. Of course posture means body position so you’re going
to have a strong posture. It means you’re going to have the shoulders back, your chin
up, your eyes up, chest out. That’s number one. And then number two you’re going to
breathe deeply. Hold…and out…and again. So again, strong posture, shoulders back,
chin up, eyes up and then deep breathing. Do this for 1 or 2 minutes every time before
you study English. I know it seems crazy, it seems so simple and yet it will totally
change the way you feel while you’re learning. Because you will feel differently you will
learn differently.
Just this simple, simple technique can increase your learning by two or three times, two
or three times faster because your brain will be awake when you’re listening to English.
When you’re bored, when you’re tired, your brain is half asleep. You’re just not learning
efficiently. When you’re breathing deeply and your body is in a strong posture you feel
better and you learn faster.
Of course the next factor we already talked about a little bit is your face. You gotta
control your face. Why? Because your face shows emotion. But your face also can
create emotion. Just by smiling big, pretending, looking like a stupid person, it doesn’t
matter. Just by faking it, just by making yourself smile bit you’ll actually change your
emotion. You’ll change your feeling. It’s very hard to feel depressed and tired when you
have a big smile, even if you’re forcing the smile.
So that’s another thing I want you to do. Everyone on the train will think you’re crazy
while you’re listening to Effortless English but I want you to have a big smile every time
while you’re listening to the lessons. Right now, do it. So you’re going to have a strong
posture. You’re going to breathe deeply. And you’re going to smile big, every time,
before, during and after your English lessons.
What’s another way we can control our physiology and therefore influence our
emotional state? Well another thing about the body is the body likes to move so we’re
going to talk about movement. You’re going to have a strong posture. You’re going to
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breathe deeply. You’re going to have a big grin on your face, smiling. And then you’re
going to move. Because movement creates energy and energy wakes up your body so
that you learn faster. I mentioned this in the introduction a little bit. We’re going to talk
about it more now in detail.
You should always be moving your body while you’re learning English. This is the
opposite of everything you learned in school. In school they told you “Don’t move. Sit
in your chair.” Right, so you’re sitting in your chair and what happened? Your body
became stiff, you became tired. You were bored. Well this is the opposite. You’re not
in school anymore. You’re learning independently and it means you’re in control now.
And so I want you to do the opposite of what happened in school.
I want you to move your body every time you’re learning English. This can be very
simple. If you’re sitting in a train, okay, it’s hard to walk around. So you could just
stretch your body. Consciously stretch, stretch your leg a little bit. Stretch your arm.
Move your head around in a circle. Small little stretches, just make sure your body is
moving even a little bit. Even better is to go for a walk. You have an iPod. You’re
listening to the lessons. Get outside. Walk on the street. Walk in the country. Walk in
the woods. It doesn’t matter. Get out and walk. Move your body. Keep your posture
strong while you’re walking. Shoulders back, chin up, eyes up, chest up…breathe
deeply while you walk. And of course, smile big while you’re walking.
Everyone will think you’re crazy. It doesn’t matter. Use this system. I promise you
you’re going to have a totally different experience while you’re learning English.
Nothing like the schools you went to before. So it’s very important. If you want to, if you
love to exercise, you can run while you’re learning English. Put on your running shoes.
Get some exercise in your body at the same time that you’re learning. You can do two
things at the same time. So walk or run. Keep that body moving at the same time
always. It’s going to keep energy coming into your body, flowing into your body. That
wakes up your brain and that makes you learn so much faster. Another idea is go to the
gym. Bring your iPod again and work out, lift weights or do whatever you do at the gym.
Again you’re using your body, engaging your body at the same time.
Okay so let me just review very quickly how you’re going to use physiology to master
your emotions. Number one, posture. Shoulders back, chin up, eyes up, chest up.
Number two, breathing…deep, deep breathing. Number three, your face. A big smile
every time you’re learning English. Even if you feel terrible, I don’t care. Smile big
while you’re listening to these lessons. And then finally, number four, movement.
You’re always going to be moving your body somehow. If you’re in your car, if you’re in
the train or the bus, you’re going to maybe make small movements. But ideally the best
thing to do is to be outside walking, moving that body, or in the gym, or even running.
So you’re going to change your physiology. Now what happens if after maybe 20
minutes, 30 minutes, you start to feel tired again. You’re listening to the lesson and
you’re starting to get a little bored “Oh, AJ keeps talking…oh god…oh I’m getting bored
with this.” Well, you can just quit…that’s what most people do. But don’t do that. What
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you need to do is just wake your body up again so pause. Pause that lesson. Stop.
Give yourself a little break. Change. Listen to some exciting fun music again. Get up,
dance around, move, smile big, get your posture strong again, breathe more deeply.
Wake up your body, maybe for 5 minutes…and then back to the lesson again. Do this
every time.
Anytime during a lesson you start to feel tired or bored, just pause. Take a break, a 5
minute break and wake up your body. So anytime during a mini‑story, during a main
article, during a vocabulary lesson, it doesn’t matter. Pause anytime you feel your
energy going down. Change, listen to your favorite music, jump around, move, make
your posture strong again, smile bigger. Start feeling great. Get that energy in your
body then return to the lesson again.
Okay, so that’s it for the main article here of “Emotional Mastery.” You’re going to focus
on your physiology. You’re going to focus on mastering your body, using your body to
change your emotions. Using your body to change the energy that you feel and
therefore using your body to learn English much, much faster.
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Emotional Mastery Mini-Story Text
Okay, welcome to the mini‑story for “Emotional Mastery.” Let’s get started.
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Vanilla wanted to be rich.
Who wanted to be rich?
Vanilla, Vanilla wanted to be rich.
Who was Vanilla?
Vanilla was a beautiful, intelligent woman.
What kind of woman was Vanilla?
She was a beautiful, intelligent woman.
And what did she want?
She wanted to be rich.
She said “Show me the money.”
What did she say?
She said “Show me the money.”
Who wanted a lot of money?
Vanilla, Vanilla wanted a lot of money.
She was beautiful. She was intelligent. But, unfortunately, she was poor. So
Vanilla went to Las Vegas. She went to Las Vegas to get rich.
Where did she go?
Las Vegas.
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Why did she go to Las Vegas?
To get rich, of course, she went to Las Vegas to get rich.
Who went to Las Vegas to get rich?
Vanilla, Vanilla went to Las Vegas to get rich.
She walked into Caesar’s Palace.
Where did she go?
Caesar’s Palace, she walked into Caesar’s Palace.
Did she run into Caesar’s Palace or did she walk into Caesar’s Palace?
She walked, she walked calmly into Caesar’s Palace.
What is Caesar’s Palace?
It’s a casino.
Caesar’s Palace is a casino.
Did Vanilla go to a casino in Japan?
No, no, no, no, no. She didn’t go to a casino in Japan. She went to a casino in Las
Vegas.
What was the casino’s name?
Caesar’s Palace, the casino’s name was Caesar’s Palace.
And where was it?
Las Vegas, it was in Las Vegas.
She walked into Caesar’s Palace with a big grin on her face.
Was Vanilla happy or sad?
She was happy. She had a big grin on her face. A big, huge smile.
Was she grinning or was she frowning?
She was grinning. She had a big smile on her face. She was grinning.
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Who, who was grinning?
Vanilla, Vanilla was grinning.
When was she grinning?
When she walked into Caesar’s Palace, when she walked into Caesar’s Palace she
was grinning.
Why?
Well, because she thought she was going to become rich.
She was grinning because she thought she was going to become rich. In fact,
she knew she was going to become rich.
Why was she grinning?
Because she knew she was going to become rich.
She walked to the blackjack table.
Which table did she walk to?
The blackjack table, she walked to the blackjack table.
Did she walk to the poker table?
No, no, no, no, no, no, not the poker table. She walked to the blackjack table.
Who walked to the blackjack table?
Vanilla, Vanilla walked to the blackjack table.
What was she doing when she walked to the blackjack table?
She was grinning, of course. She was grinning when she walked to the blackjack table.
She took out money from her pocket.
How much money did she take out of her pocket?
$6,000.00.
She took $6,000.00 out of her pocket.
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Where did she take it out of?
Out of her pocket, she took $6,000.00 out of her pocket.
Whose pocket?
Vanilla’s, Vanilla’s pocket, of course. Her own pocket. She took $6,000.00 out of her
own pocket.
She put the money on the table. She bet all of the money on the first game.
How much money did she bet?
Well, all of it, all $6,000.00. She bet all $6,000.00.
And did she win or did she lose?
Well, Vanilla lost.
Vanilla lost all her money. She was really, really poor. She cried, “Oh no, I lost all
my money.”
What about Warren Buffett?
Huh, who’s Warren Buffett?
Warren Buffett is the richest man in the world.
Does Warren Buffett play blackjack?
No.
Warren Buffett does not play blackjack.
What does he do?
He buys stocks.
He buys what?
He buys stocks. Stocks are parts of companies, like a piece of a company. So Warren
Buffett buys stocks. He goes to New York and buys stocks.
So Warren Buffett went to New York at the same time that Vanilla went to Las
Vegas.
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When Vanilla was in Las Vegas, where was Warren Buffett?
New York, he was in New York. Warren Buffett was in New York when Vanilla was in
Las Vegas.
Did Warren Buffett lose money in New York or make money?
He made money.
He made $60 billion.
How much money did Warren Buffett make?
He made $60 billion.
How much did Vanilla make?
Zero, she made no money. In fact, she lost money. Vanilla lost $6,000.00. Warren
Buffett made $60 billion.
Did Vanilla grin?
Well no.
First she cried. But then she changed her physiology. She pulled back her
shoulders. She put her chin up. And she grinned. She said “I will become rich.”
Did Warren Buffett grin after he made $60 billion?
No, he didn’t grin, he frowned.
Warren Buffett always frowns.
Who frowned?
Warren Buffett frowned.
And who grinned?
Well, Vanilla grinned. She cried and then she grinned.
Next, Vanilla went to Alaska.
Why did she go to Alaska?
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She went to Alaska to dig for gold.
What did she want to do?
She wanted to dig for gold.
Who wanted to dig for gold?
Vanilla, Vanilla wanted to dig for gold.
So she got a shovel and she started to dig. Every day she dug for gold, five days,
ten days, digging for gold, digging for gold. After sixty days, her back hurt.
Why did Vanilla’s back hurt?
Because she had bad posture, of course.
Vanilla had bad posture while she was digging.
Did she have good posture or did she have bad posture?
Vanilla had bad posture while she was digging.
What kind of posture did Vanilla have?
Bad, she had bad posture.
Was her back straight or was it bent?
It was bent. Her back was bent. She had bad posture while she was digging for gold.
Where did she have bad posture?
Well, in Alaska, she had bad posture in Alaska while she was digging for gold.
When, when did she have bad posture?
While she was digging for gold.
After ninety days, Vanilla’s back hurt and she had no money. She started to cry
“Oh, my back hurts. And I have no money.”
Did she cry, did she feel bad, was she depressed?
Yes, Vanilla was depressed.
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How did she feel?
Depressed.
Was she super‑sad?
Yes, she was depressed.
Why was Vanilla depressed?
Because her back hurt and she had no money.
But then Vanilla changed. She changed her posture again. She smiled. She
brought her shoulders back. She breathed deeply. She said “I will become rich.”
So she went to Singapore.
Where did Vanilla go next?
Singapore, that’s right, of course. Singapore, she went to Singapore.
Why did she go to Singapore?
Well, it’s obvious.
She went to Singapore to start a chili business.
What kind of business did she start?
A chili business, not a cold business. Chili, c-h-i-l-i, little pepers that you eat, very spicy.
She started a chili business.
Okay, so she grew chilis in her apartment. She grew chilis, hot chilis, in her
apartment and sold them to restaurants.
So she grew broccoli in her apartment and she sold them to restaurants?
Not broccoli, chilis, not broccoli…chilis. She grew chilis in her apartment and she sold
them to restaurants.
What did she sell?
Chilis, hot chilis, she sold hot chilis to restaurants.
In which city?
Singapore. In Singapore she sold hot chilis to restaurants.
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Where did she grow the chilis?
She grew them in her apartment. She grew them in her apartment then she sold them
to restaurants.
What did she sell to restaurants?
Hot chilis, she sold hot chilis to restaurants.
So, what did Vanilla want?
Vanilla wanted to be rich.
Where did she go first?
Las Vegas, she first went to Las Vegas. She played blackjack. She lost all her money.
Where did she go next?
Alaska.
She went to Alaska, she dug for diamonds and she got a bad painful back?
No, no, no, no, no, she didn’t dig for diamonds. She dug for gold. She went to Alaska,
she dug for gold. But her posture was bad so her back hurt. No money and a painful
back. And finally she went to Singapore. She grew hot chilis in her apartment and sold
them to restaurants.
And she made $28 billion. She became the Queen of Hot Chilis…the Asian Queen
of Hot Chilis. Vanilla became super‑rich. She got the money.
Did Vanilla become super‑rich?
Oh yes, she did.
How much money did she make? $26 billion?
Oh no.
$27 billion?
No, no, no. $28 billion, Vanilla made $28 billion. She was beautiful. She was
intelligent. And finally, she was super‑rich.
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Okay, that is the end of the mini‑story for “Emotional Mastery.” How about you? Was
your posture good during this lesson? Were you smiling while you listened? Were you
breathing deeply…while you listened? Were you moving your body as you listened to
this story? I hope so. You should. If not, it’s okay but next time, next time be sure.
Strong posture, deep breathing, big grin and moving your body as you listen to the
story. And one more thing you can do. If you’re at home, if you can be loud, you can
listen to the story and shout your answers.
So if I say “What was her name?” you shout “Vanilla.” You can do this in the train on the
bus, too, if you want to. In San Francisco we have a lot of crazy people so if you do
something like this nobody cares. So you can do that, too. But if you feel strange about
shouting in public, then maybe do it at home. If you listen at home, you know, stand up,
move your body and shout the answers. Loud, strong posture, don’t be shy about
speaking English. Teach yourself to be strong when you speak English. And
remember, posture, breathing, big smile, big grin and move your body as you listen to
every lesson.
Okay.
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Emotional Mastery Vocabulary Text
Okay, welcome to the vocabulary lesson for “Emotional Mastery.” Let’s get started.
A few of the words I used in the main speech, the main article. First let’s talk about
posture. Posture. So posture means the position of your body, it’s how you stand or sit.
So we talk about good posture, for example. Good posture means your shoulders are
back. Your back is straight, your chin is up. That’s what we usually call good posture.
And bad posture would mean, you know again, you’re leaning forward. Your shoulders
are forward. Your back is not straight. So again, posture just means the position of
your body, how you position your body. How you hold your body, that’s posture.
Another word I used was grin. A grin can be a noun, it’s a thing. Or it can be a verb, it’s
something you do. So to grin means to smile, but to smile in a big way. When you grin,
you’re not using a small smile. You’re using a very, very big smile. Again, it’s also a
noun so if you have a very big smile on your face, we say that is a grin. He has a big
grin. You could use both, I guess. You could say he is grinning a big grin. Okay, so
grin again is a large smile or the act of doing a large smile.
Another phrase I used was “tends to be.” He tends to be an angry person. Tends to be
means usually is. So he usually is an angry person. He tends to be an angry person.
So it’s something that usually happens, usually is true, mostly is true. But not always,
not always. So I could say, Tomoe tends to be happy. It means she usually is happy.
It’s her normal thing to do or normal thing to feel. But not always, sometimes she’s not
happy. So tends to be, usually is or often is or mostly is.
Okay, another word I used was shifting. Shifting your body and the verb is to shift. To
shift your body means to move it. It really means kind of to change its position. A shift
is a change of position. So if I have my head down and then I shift it, then maybe I
move it to a different position. Now it’s up. I shifted from down to up. We use this in
other areas, not just body. You can use it for driving, for example. When you’re driving
you can shift from first gear to second gear. Or reverse, you’re going backwards, then
you stop, you shift the car and you change and you go forward. So again, you’re
changing the gear’s position. Okay, so shift is a change in position.
I used the word shallow, shallow breath or shallow breathing. And I also used the word
deep, deep breathing or a deep breath. So they’re opposites, of course. Deep, we also
use this with water, for example. Deep water means water that goes down very far.
Shallow water means water that’s not very deep, right? It’s the opposite, water that
does not go down far. So shallow breathing is the same idea. It means breathing that
is very small, that doesn’t go down into your body very much. So…that’s shallow
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breathing, right? It’s small little breaths. The air does not go down deep into the body.
That is shallow breath or shallow breathing. And the opposite is deep. Deep breathing
is…right, the air goes down into my body very far, very deeply. But shallow…does not
go deeply. Okay, so we use this a lot with breathing. Shallow breathing and deep
breathing, they’re opposites.
Another word I used is force, to force, using it as a verb, an action. To force something
or to force yourself to do something. It’s a very common phrase. The whole thing
again, to force yourself to do something. For example, force yourself to smile. So force
means to try hard. It has an idea that you don’t want to do it but you do it anyway. You
make yourself do something difficult. You make yourself do something maybe you don’t
want to do. So you use effort. You use your energy. You use your power to do
something. So when you force something it’s the opposite of really relaxed. It’s the
opposite of doing it effortlessly. So force yourself to smile means use your energy.
Make yourself smile, even if you don’t want to. Use energy. Force it. Try hard to smile.
So that’s to force yourself to do something.
Another word I used is depressed or depression. So depression is the noun, depressed
is the feeling, it’s an adjective. Like I feel depressed, it’s how you feel. So depressed
means very, very sad. Feeling very, very sad and bad about yourself, about your life,
about everything. So if you say “I’m sad,” usually that’s more specific, you have a
reason. I’m sad about something. I’m sad because I lost my job. But if you’re
depressed, it’s a very more general kind of feeling. You’re depressed about everything
usually. “I’m depressed because I lost my job and I have no money and I don’t have a
girlfriend,” many reasons. Depression is deeper than just sadness.
So again, to be depressed, you say “I am depressed” or “I have depression.” This is a
general kind of rule in English. It’s not always, but generally we say “I have a noun…a
thing.” I have depression. Not I have depressed. Say, I have depression. But if you’re
talking about an adjective, then you use “am”. I am depressed. They mean basically
the same thing. I have depression means I have the feeling of being depressed. I am
depressed is more common. It just means I feel very, very, very sad.
Okay, well that is the end of the vocabulary lesson for “Emotional Mastery.” Listen to it a
couple of times. In general the vocabulary lessons are the least important lesson. So if
you listen to them a few times, if they’re boring, if you understand them all, it’s fine, you
can skip the vocabulary. I want you to focus mostly on the main article, the main
speech and on the mini‑story. Those are the two most important lessons. The
vocabulary gives you a quick little lesson about some of the words and phrases. Listen
to it a few times until you know these words, but once you know the words focus on the
main story, the main article and on the mini‑story.
Okay, I will see you in the next lesson.
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