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The "Bad Mood" Lifestyle
11 Ways to Turn Yours Around and Create a Powerful New Reality
The author was furious. "Rather than seizing the opportunity to make light of the situation and have fun with it, I politely escorted the gorilla out of the room," she recalls. "Since he spoke no English and I spoke very little Spanish, we relied on hand signals to communicate, which made him seem even more like a gorilla. When I returned, I apologized for what had happened. If there was ever a time in my career to Lighten Up and laugh, it would have been then. But I just couldn't do it. I was too terrified that they thought I was an imbecile for 
scheduling this, and I lost a precious opportunity to connect with my colleagues that day."
It's true that once you try living in the Power Zone, you won't want to go back to the old way. But please understand: this is not about eliminating the "bad" things in life or in yourself. That will never happen. It's about embracing all aspects of yourself so that you can understand the spectrum of choices that are available to you – and make the ones you want to make.
"Without your low-energy aspects, you cannot come into your full power, just as you cannot always distinguish weeds from wildflowers," Anderson writes. "Without exploring all your aspects, and fully embracing all that is within you, you won't be able to offer your 'seeds' to the world, and they will not blossom. The very things you're trying to change, reform or transcend are actually the seeds coming into your full power. When you embrace them, 'your heaven comes home.'"
