You can learn to feel what you want to feel. There are 12 Steps. They are a new 12 Steps for a New Millennium The Up Spiral Life Group UpSpiraLife Five emotional states are more than emotion- they are inroads to consciousness. The positive thinking industry and the positive spirituality industry both make the same mistake. You can’t get there by positive thinking alone. It wears you out, makes you feel like a failure or a phoney, and creates denial of real emotions that can provide direction and contrast. But emotions are not just “indicators” or “feedback.” They are much, much more. We try to think positively to “feel better,” but there is a much more rapid way to feeling better and feeling good most of the time. We can have a great deal more control over emotional states of mind that are faster inroads to inner states of consciousness. The issue is not positive thinking, whether you spiritualize it or not. The issue is "positive being" and that is grounded, first and foremost, in the issue of positive emotion. Let’s call them “positive states of mind” that are absolutely linked to inner states of spiritual consciousness. Pretend that you have five balloons on the inside of you that are love, peace, gratitude, hope, and joy. The inner balloons are the shells that hold the outward reality. You’ve got to blow them up and fill them with your outer intentions to feel and experience these things. You can learn to feel what you want to feel. There are 12 Steps. They are a new 12 Steps for a New Millennium The Up Spiral Life Group