Steps to Stress Relief – Action Step Five
Small Changes Make Big Differences
Have you found yourself procrastinating on things you want to do? If so, you are actually using your creativity, unfortunately in the negative direction. A creative mind can come up with all sorts of reasons and examples of: scary outcomes, why it won’t work, or how it isn’t the right time, or how it won’t be good enough.
However, have you noticed that once you finally get yourself to take some action, that things start flowing? It seems that when you make the choice to sit down and take even the smallest step, something magical happens. The negative voice gets quieter, and you find yourself settling into the task. When days or weeks later the task is done, you feel great. If you were to look back to the first action step, you’d see that it gave you momentum with each small step. Accomplishing something in the right direction moves you toward your goal.
Over the next months we spend together, you’ll be getting many different tools to put into your stress relief toolbox. I believe if you take the small steps I am giving, you will surprise yourself at the results. If you want to speed up the process, the next series of online coaching workshops coming up soon. Contact me for more information if you have interest in becoming a part of this amazing group of people.
Today we continue with your next Action Step.
Action Step 5: Your Personal Journal
1. This is another very simple action step. Find a journal and a pen to use for this work. Something you enjoy writing in, something that looks good and you enjoy picking up when you feel like writing about your feelings, or tips you like or anything you want to remember about the process we are doing. Keep this just for this work on using your mind in a new powerful way.
2. Pick out a pen that flows smoothly and that you enjoy holding in your hand. Seems simple yet it is kind of a metaphor for your own smooth sailing towards calm and serenity in your life.
3. It’s your mind so you might as well learn to use it in the most positive, life enhancing way.
4. Use the journal to keep notes of your progress. Use it to jot down tips and insights, to write questions and thoughts. Use this journal to keep a list of your success as well as areas where you get stuck or frustrated. The journal is just for you, as you keep notes and monitor your progress you will be forming a blueprint for success. The notes you keep will be a reminder of which stress relief techniques work best for you.
5. Use the journal to answer the following questions: Some of the questions are similar to what we did in Action Step One. Now it’s time to write down your answers in your journal reserved for this exercise. And if you sit down with it in the space you’ve dedicated to practice you are already cueing your mind that you are serious about getting relief from stress, panic, fear, worry or whatever you have decided to work on.
Questions to answer: Write the answers in your journal.
a. What might you be doing if panic, fear or worry wasn’t getting in your way?
b. How it will be for you to be able to generate a calm, resourceful state of being?
c. Please, take a moment to visualize a few different areas of your life where things will be so much better when anxiety, panic, worry or fear do not block you.
- Think about where you want to have the changes.
- What has been happening that you would like to change or do differently?
- Where are you when stress or issue you are dealing with hits?
- What thoughts go through your mind?
- What triggers are you aware of?
d. The answers to these questions will give you important clues, ones we will use in later exercises. So please make sure you jot down some answers to the questions.
Who will benefit from the skills and tools from the Transformation System?
1. If you have not yet been able to get relief from anxiety, worry, a mind racing, or procrastination, I believe you will benefit from the reports.
2. If you would like a variety of tools to put into your toolbox of stress relief skills.
3. If you want to have tools you can use immediately to bring down stress.
4. If you want to learn to combine the stress relief tools to make them even more effective.
5. If you are willing to open your mind to the new way of thinking, you’ll find many creative ways to change reactions you don’t want.
How were to techniques developed and tested for use?
The post are excerpts are from articles, books and reports I’ve written during my 28+ years of research and practice, with private clients and online coaching students. They will give you a way to learn to use your own creative mind to generate calm, to gain focus, and to discharge negative emotions. Because you are learning these without the personal contact with one of our hypnotherapists I’ve broken them down into easiest to follow parts, ones that can be done with the greatest success on your own.
Please note: Actions steps One through Five are the basic steps to get you ready. Sort of setting the foundation, getting the mind ready. As we go forward we’ll be doing many different types of techniques., and at times emotions might surface. You are learning to use your mind in a new productive way, and at times it might stimulate emotions or memories. The good news is that once a memory is brought to the light of conscious awareness it can be worked on and healed, it no longer needs to fester underneath.
In the light of awareness
emotions and memories can be healed and changed
Please note: Most people find they can do the techniques easily with positive benefit. Many get into a relaxed state with the first practice. You are in total control.
If you are under doctors care or have suffered trauma, I recommend that you have someone trained in these techniques to guide you the first time. It is important to take good care of yourself. For anyone who has deeper issues or trauma in their past, I recommend doing these with someone trained in these techniques, that way they will know what to do if any old memories surface.
With our private clients we know we are close to the root when old memories come to the light of conscious awareness. Most people with panic or anxiety have already experienced the hardships in life, we make sure before doing any hypnotic work that they can rise above the situation and see it from a safe perspective. It isn’t necessary to be in a painful event in order to release the painful emotion. Again I do not anticipate that the techniques we are teaching will have any but positive effects, but since your own unconscious mind has all the memories stored within, I can’t guarantee that something that has been repressed might not surface.
With that in mind, when you are using the techniques on your own, know that if at any time anything feels less than comfortable, you can just pull yourself back up into the present by just opening your eyes, or wiggling your fingers or toes and saying “erase, erase”. You also have the power to change your thoughts (cognitive techniques). So before going further with hypnotic exercise we’ll be taking about a Cognitive Technique in Action Step 6.
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