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Anxiety
Technique -- Part 1 Copyright
© Jan Tincher - All Rights reserved Do you get anxious or stressful? When you are anxious, what do you say to yourself? What pictures do you make in your mind? What feelings do you get in your body? . . . Well, when you are anxious the things you say to yourself, the pictures you make in your head, and the feelings you have all lead toward one thing. Anxiety. There are two things you can do when you feel an anxiety (panic) attack coming that work well to eliminate it. The first thing you can do is a technique called "Shatter". Here's how you do that: Make a picture in your mind of you getting anxious. NO, WAIT, change that! You know why? Because I don't want you to *shatter* anyone, much less yourself, and that's what we're going to do, shatter the picture of you. I want you to shatter the FEELING, not the person. So don't put the person, *you*, in the picture. Your hands are OK, or any part of your body that you can see without looking at your reflection, just not YOU. OK, let's start over. In your mind, make a picture of you getting anxious -- in fact, your body is starting to feel anxious. It's like you are looking down at your body and you are in the process of having an anxiety attack. Put everything in that picture that evokes negative feelings. The reasons for your anxiety, the disgust that you can't conquer your fear or whatever that is making you anxious, etc. Pick out a picture of the worst thing you can think of happening to you. When you see that picture, do you have thoughts of hopelessness, self-recrimination, etc.? Or are you thinking "I'll never be able to control this." "I wish I had the willpower to stop." "I'm so wishy-washy." "I don't have any self-control." etc.? Now that you feel really terrible, put that picture on a large piece of glass *in your mind,* because that's what you're going to shatter. And remember, if you use all of your senses -- you hear, feel, smell, taste, see everything that pertains to that picture that says you ALWAYS get anxious, your brain will be drawn to it. And we want your brain drawn to this picture before we shatter it. OK, now. Look at the picture on the piece of glass until it evokes all those feelings mentioned above and you are REALLY feeling out of control -- you are HAVING another anxiety attack, then . . . SHATTER it! Now, bring it back up, then SHATTER it! Bring it back up again, and immediately shatter it 6 more times. Now, when you try to bring the picture back up, CAN YOU? Most people can't. Or if they do, it shatters automatically, or it's faded. At any rate, it doesn't have the same effect on you! Why? Because when your brain is drawn to a picture, a picture you shatter again and again, it will have the same effect as a fingernail scratching a chalkboard. Your brain will not like it, and will not want to bring that picture back up again. If you can't bring the picture up, you won't have it to draw you to the old habit of getting anxious or stressful. Now, after you've shattered your picture enough times and it doesn't come up anymore, take some time to think good thoughts and visualize your life as you would like it to be, where you are in control of your emotions and emotions no longer control you. Believe me, this works. So if the old feelings come back the next day, just SHATTER the picture 6 or more times again. Pretty soon your brain will get the idea for good. Thank you for reading. Jan P.S.
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