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Tools,
Techniques and Strategies for Instant Change
State
Change
This
strategy is to be used when you need to change your whole state.
It
could be your state of mind, or it could be your state of
body.
Both are intimately connected. If you are having
difficulty
with how you are feeling, or are stuck in a bad
feeling,
it helps to change your physical state, and the mental will
follow.
Most people who are feeling depressed will sit in a slumped position,
with their head bowed down, , breathing shallow breaths. How
different is this from an upright position , head held high, shoulders
back, body straight, and breathing deep full breaths?
Just
by changing the physicality of your body, the
mental/emotional
body will follow.
Have
you ever experience something disgusting, seen something
nasty,
or revolting, and your go uuughhh! and give you whole
body
a shudder? This is a natural way to "shake off" the
emotional
jolt. By "shaking" or "shuttering", or moving your
body quickly in any whole body fashion that is different from
the
moment before, you can shift the emotional state that you
were
feeling the moment before. It is sort of a clearing
mechanism
for the mind.
The
body holds and stores emotions physically. Tense shoulders,
arms, legs, torso, neck, all these places can hold on to
tension
and "lock" it up. Moving these parts of your body
deliberately will loosen up
the stagnate energy, and
naturally
flowing energy will calm the nerves, and raise the
spirits.
In
order to change your state, you need to move each part of
your
body by doing something different, if only for a moment.
However,
if done systematically, and deliberately, the
effect
is magnified.
To loosen the head and neck area,
look up. Look at the
ceiling,
look at the top corners of the room, or check out
the
ceiling lights,. If you are near a window, check out the
sky
or the clouds.
To loosen up the arm area, pick
something up. (probably not
your
coffee cup, as you have been doing that all along
haven't
you) something different, perhaps something heavier-
a
couple of books, perhaps, or a picture frame. Hold it
up
high, if you can do so without feeling too silly, to get
the
whole arm involved.
To loosen up the chest area, just
twist around, look behind
you,
twist the other way, get up and bend down to "pick
something
up" from the floor. That's all it takes.
In order to loosen the leg area, get
up and take a short walk,
walk
over to a window, or to the restroom, or around the
office,
or your house. Going up a few steps is a remarkable
way
to loosen up this area.
At the same time, remember to think of
something pleasant.
Think
of some lovely scene you'd like to be enjoying, or
a
pleasant memory of your last vacation- any pleasant
thought
will do. This gives your mind a break from whatever
was
stressing you out before, and allows the new energy to
flow
faster.
Putting
it all together.
Changing
your state in ONE MINUTE could look something like
this-
For
example, if you are in your office:
You
realize you are in a miserable mood, and you wish to
change
it. So you take a deep breath, while sitting up
very
straight and holding your head high.
You stand up,
and
give your body a quick shudder, then you choose a
pleasant
thought to dwell on for a while, perhaps that
beach
you'll be sunning on next month.
You reach down
and
pick up a book, or folder, raising it momentarily
above
your head, then you turn around and walk out of
the
office, carrying the folder.
You walk over to a
window
and check out the weather, being sure to look
up
as high as you can to the sky.. Twist around to look
behind
you, while your feet are still facing the window,
and
then, still breathing deeply, walk over to the
stairwell
and walk halfway down a floor, then back up.
(Imagine
you're climbing a sand dune).
As you go back
to
your office, you bend down, as if you were picking
up
a stray paperclip off the floor.
That's it! You have loosened up all the
"locked" zones in
your body that were holding tension, and you've cleared
out
the stagnant energy, and are now flowing more clearly and
energetically.
I
guarantee, that when you sit back down at your desk, you
will
be feeling different- better, more energized, probably
much
more inspired, and able to work more efficiently.
All
it took was one minute!
Of
course, you can adjust the actions to suit wherever you
are,
and whatever you're doing. The basic idea is to move
each
area of the body, breath deeply, and focus for a
moment
on some other, (and much more pleasant) thoughts.
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For
help in changing those thoughts from negative to
positive,
read about the next Instant Change Strategy,
called
the REPLACEMENT.
- The Switch
- State Change
- Replacement
- Bell Hop
- Energy Breath
- Stress Disintegrator
- Fusion
- The ReWrite
- Phobia Removal
- Oaken Bucket
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