Feeling Tool #5 All Feelings Come from within Us If you can understand and apply this section, you can justify the price you paid for this book. Of all the tools I give my clients, this is one with which they always have the most aha moments. You must understand that there seems to be two different reasons we feel. One reason we feel is because we have a deeply root- ed belief system that comes from within us; it presents us with a negative feeling when we might have noth- ing negative happening in our life. Maybe we were having a perfectly good day, but we feel depressed. This is an internal emotion because it came from with- in and wasn’t connected to our outside world. Embrace it, feel it, and find the belief system that caused it. The other type of feeling we experience is caused by external circumstances—or so we think. We really chose to allow the circumstances to cause us to feel a certain way. We go to work and something stressful happens, then we are suddenly stressed. Someone looks at us funny and we are suddenly embarrassed. Another person might be angry with us and we feel angry at them too. We believe that the circumstance 102 • If IAm So Smart, Why Can’t I Lose Weight?