The Amazing Feel-Good Formula You Can Use Whenever Stress Comes A-KnockingA Very Short IntroductionIf you haven’t met us yet, we’d like to introduce ourselves: Our names are Dvora Ifat and Shunit Ben-Tzvi.We are mother and daughter - Dvora is the expert when it comes to stress management, and Shunit is the expert when it comes to dealing with the web. We've decided to combine skills to bring this special report to you. This free report features one of the most important techniques in our ebook, “No Stress!” We'd love for you to use this formula and benefit from it, because we want everyone who can have a stress-free life to have such a life. Enjoy!
Why the Amazing Formula WorksDvora: Hi everyone at home! You're minutes away from discovering the Amazing Feel-Good Formula.Shunit is here with me, to ask me questions, and to help demonstrate. So I'm talking to both Shunit and everyone at home - feel free to go along and do the exercises, even if we can't see you. We'll start with a little experiment: Imagine something that makes you feel bad, angry or scared. Now pay attention to the way it makes you feel physically when you imagine or think back to this event. After noting the physical feeling in your body, go back and remember or imagine something that causes you joy or happiness. Once again pay attention to how it makes you feel. Shunit, what did you think of the first time, and what did you think of the second time? Shunit: For the first experiment, I remembered being really angry at a co-worker. I could feel it eating me up inside, consuming me, physically. The second time, I was at the seashore, swimming and I could just feel myself floating. It was so great! Dvora: Just by remembering and imagining, you had these pretty intense feelings. Thanks to the tremendous power of memory and imagination which we've just witnessed, we can use the technique we'll learn here. This technique is one of the branches of guided imagination, and I shall refer to it simply as “swapping pictures”. We will use it to take the emotional charge out of our not-too-great memories, and out of events that occur in our lives.
How to use the Amazing FormulaShunit: So, how do we use this technique?Dvora: It's really quite simple. You can find the steps of the Amazing Formula at the end of this special report, but first, let’s go through the technique together. Place one hand on your forehead. Put your other hand on the back of your head, on the same level as your forehead. Just so you know, by placing your hands on your head you cause more blood to flow there and make the area more active, and you are also bypassing the area of the brain which would have otherwise prevented the change you’re going to make. Now think back to an event from the past few days that has upset you or made you angry or frightened. Shunit: I was just remembering how some time ago I met with a good friend I hadn’t seen in a long time. After talking for a few moments, my friend started getting really angry for no apparent reason. He started yelling at me, whereas I hadn’t done anything wrong, as far as I know. Dvora: OK. Now try seeing the picture or movie you have in your head of this event. It might be easier to do with your eyes closed. Shunit: Let's see… I can see us sitting there at the café, at this round sort of small table. I've got a latte in front of me, and my friend has a cappuccino. It's a grey sort of day, and it's morning. The café is in a small street, quite nice. It's rather empty, because it's mid-morning, and the weather is rather cool. Dvora: Good. Now that you see that picture in your mind, define to yourself how you're feeling. Don't just say “I'm angry”. Beneath the anger you will usually find some other emotion. Maybe you were insulted, hurt, or maybe you felt that you weren't being treated right. So if the event you picked is one where you felt angry try finding what came before the anger. Shunit, how did you feel about your event? Shunit: I was hurt, crushed. I didn’t do anything to deserve that! Dvora: After having told yourself how you feel take this picture that you saw, give it a frame of whatever color and material you choose. If what you saw was a movie, record it to a cassette or burn it on a CD. You can put it in a box. Give it some sort of packaging. What did you do, Shunit? Shunit: I framed my picture in a black wooden frame, to go with the pain. Dvora: Good. Once it's packaged get rid of it using your imagination. You can really let your imagination run wild; you can throw it out the window, into the ocean, to the garbage, even into a black hole. You can burn or smash it. Whatever works for you. There is no need to fear that you won't remember this event afterwards. We're not getting rid of the memory, but rather of the feeling that is attached to it. We are ridding ourselves of the negative emotion, not of the memory. This is not "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". I know it might be hard for some of you to say goodbye to this event, but I would really recommend that you do this. It has a lot of power. Shunit: I've thrown my picture into the ocean. It now sleeps with the fishes. Dvora: Great. After having thrown out whatever has upset you, I ask that you put in its place a new picture. This picture should be one that makes you happy. Don't put in something that just makes you OK-happy. This picture should make you 100 percent happy and joyful. This picture could be one of the same event as you would have wanted it to happen or it could be a totally unrelated picture of something that causes you joy. Even stuff like butterflies and flowers or a hug from someone you love. If cheese is what makes you happy - make it a picture of cheese. Anything along the line of “raindrops on roses” would do. Shunit: Can imagining something good really make me feel good? It sounds unbelievable! Dvora: Yes, imagination can make you feel good. The body doesn't know the difference between imagination and reality. They are the same to it. This enables us to work with this technique, enables us to relieve stress and feel good. Shunit: In that case, let me imagine something nice: My new picture is of my friend and me going hiking together in a beautiful landscape, getting along just fine. Dvora: Wonderful. After swapping pictures ask yourself again: “How do I feel?” See how your body feels. You should feel great. Shunit, how do you feel on a scale of one to ten? Shunit: I feel awesome, ten out of ten. Dvora: Excellent. As I've already said, as far as feeling good goes, there's not much of a difference between imagination and reality. That's why we can get such excellent results using this technique. Now, all you people at home, can do the same thing. Go ahead and follow the Amazing Formula:
The Amazing FormulaYou may want to print out this part (just select it, press "file", "print", "print selection") and keep it in an accessible location, so that you can refer to the formula and use it whenever you need to.
Where to go from Here"Swapping pictures" is a great technique, taken out of the ebook we wrote, No Stress. You can use it whenever something upsets you and causes you to stress out. Try out the Amazing Formula, and see for yourself.People have used it to get amazing results. But not everyone is the same. Some people may respond better to different stress management methods. That's why we're going to send you some excellent articles over the next few weeks. These articles contain all sorts of tips and techniques that can help you reduce stress. Check your inbox every couple of days to read these articles. The first one will be called: "Stressed Out? Eight Things You're Probably Not Doing Enough"
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