Whether a good day comes from things going right externally, or from a deliberate internal effort to enter a good frame of mind, probably isn’t an either/or question: it’s likely both. What’s clearer is that attention itself has real power: putting your focus on what’s working, on something you genuinely like, tends to produce a felt sense of good regardless of what else is happening.

Within the MythoSelf Process, this is called accessing an excitatory bias, and it’s the foundation a facilitator works from before anything else, because a client’s body becomes chemically and structurally primed for learning once this bias is in place. They become open to what’s coming, rather than defended against it.

The exercise for this stage is simple to state, harder to fully inhabit: ask yourself, “What am I like when I’m at my best?” Don’t answer intellectually: go there, in your body and your mind, and let yourself enter it as fully as you can.

The next instalment goes deeper into this question, exploring just how much your body itself dictates how you feel: not as a side effect of emotion, but as its actual mechanism.