I’ve been using @Josef’s description of unifying to get a more sincere ‘decision’ to feel good
So rather than trying to ‘decide’ to feel good via the ‘actualist’ side of myself trying to tell the ‘bad’/‘feeling’ part of myself to ‘cut it out’ and get back to feeling good (while also using some convoluted/complex description of why I should), the aim is to 100% commit to feeling however I’m feeling, and from that position feeling good becomes a natural option.
This has been working even better than expected:
What it has looked like so far has been that I’ll realize I’m not feeling good, and then I’ll say “Oh! Time to put Josef’s approach into practice.” and then I’ll take a second to pinpoint exactly how I was feeling, so I can commit to it and really get into it and then that decision can happen from a sincere place.
But then I can’t… because I can already see that it would be silly to feel that way. I can’t even get back into the feeling. By the time it’s anything like a conscious decision, I have no interest in feeling that way at all. And just like that, one trigger has lost its strength.
Pretty neat.