Hey there, Jen here, and this is a happy bit. So one of the best tools I use and have used for years to

help keep myself happy and positive is what I call an emotional detox. So how did I discover this?

Well, when I hit my low point all those years ago, I just realized I was swimming with negativity.

I had all these hard feelings toward my mom for some

reason, and I know those can dredge up for anyone. She hadn't done anything all that awful,

but I just was remembering every little fight we had had when I was a teenager, and every little

time she had kind of criticized me in any way, and it was festering. And I remembered this boy I knew in college who was

really awful to me. And all of these memories were just swimming. And I thought, you know,

I've got to let this go. How can I be happy with all this junk in my memory and always floating

through my thoughts? So I grabbed a few books and read some ideas and came up with my own solution, which is this.

Relaxing all the way into a very relaxed state lying on my yoga mat or on my bed.

Then pulling up those memories one by one, feeling them, which heals them.

Have you heard the phrase, feel it to heal it? Well, literally feeling

in my body what those sensations feel like and then allowing them to dissolve and imagining them

floating away, incinerating in the sun. And I did this over and over again for maybe about two

hours a week for several weeks, probably eight to

10 weeks. And every single time I did it, I noticed myself feeling a bit lighter. Well, I introduced

this to some of my coaching clients and they had the exact same experience. They reported feeling

lighter, like they felt happier toward their spouse,

their kids. It just helped in every area of their life to let go of that resentment and that

negativity that they'd been holding on to for so long. You can also try to apply this principle

in your daily life. So when my spouse is critical, maybe about something, these feelings come up

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