We all have stressful periods in our lives. A lot of us are walking around unconsciously holding stress in our bodies. It’s slowly eating away at our insides and at some point we suffer the consequences. I’m going to introduce you to the 60 second anti-stress exercise. Once you have rehearsed this a few times you will be able to significantly reduce your stress levels whenever you need.

Now, the important thing here is to note that this is a form of self-hypnosis … not in the ’spooky swinging-watch look-into-my-eyes’ type … but of the type that changes your internal state to something different to that of stress. (Shhhhh …. shifting state is one of the key secrets of hypnosis!)

So how do you change state in 60 seconds? You’ll have to rehearse a bit but the key is to immerse yourself in a real or imagined memory of something pleasant … not as an intellectual thing, but as a full sensory remembering.

Try the following:

1. Make sure you are in a calm, non-disturbed environment (at least when you start-off to practice this).
2. Close your eyes and recall a time when you experienced a wonderful feeling of release … perhaps walking in the hills one summer afternoon or when you first met you’re future partner and …
3. Imagine that you can see the scenario from a birds-eye point-of-view and as you do, float down into the ‘you’ in that scenario and look through the eyes of that person … as if you were there.
4. Run the scene in your imagination as a movie … as if you were there.
5. See things in color and as you do, recall any sounds that were there … sounds that you can hear now in this scene you are participating in.
6. Begin to notice those great feelings you are experiencing as you ‘re-live’ the scene and let them amplify through you.
7. Bask in the imagined memory, first person, surround sound, with the feeling you felt then welling through you in the present.
8. And open your eyes, taking a deep breath as you do so.

You should have quite dramatically changed your state by doing the above exercise. Learning how to hypnotize yourself isn’t as difficult as you might imagine! Practice it. Try different memories. Make up some fantasy imaginings if that works. Try out a few different imaginary scenarios and work out which one most improves your stress levels when used in the above exercise.

Make a promise to yourself to become more aware of when you are holding onto stress and use that as a trigger to do the exercise.

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