26/05/2026
Thought, feeling, action
The way you think can affect the way you feel, which then has an affect on what you do.
If your the kind of person who gets nervous about exams, interviews or meeting new people you may notice that you creat an image in your mind of how it’s going to be, you might even have some negative self talk. Then perhaps you’ll start to get nervous and have butterflies in your tummy. You’ll start to produce cortisol, which will make you feel stressed. You might then find that you’re pacing backwards and forwards, or tapping your foot, or if you’re like me, shaking your leg. You’re breathing might begin to change.
All these are natural when you’re nervous, but you can change all of that by either changing your thinking. Start to think of something more positive, start telling yourself all the good things you’ll achieve if you get that job, pass those exams or what good things can come from meeting those people.
Change how you hold yourself, when you think positively your body posture will change as will those external behaviours, then they will also change how you feel internally, and you can start to release oxytocin and endorphins.
How you think affects how you feel and affects how you behave, but by changing just one of those things it will start to change the others.
Change what you do on the outside so it can change how you feel on the inside. Action creates better thinking and better feeling.
Marina