Experience Your Power Now
The Exercises Below Show You Instantly What
Powerful Human Beings You Are & Clearly Illustrate How Your Mind & Body Interact On A
Daily Basis & Of The Inner Power That You All Posses. They Also
Give You A Preview Of What You Will Learn & Experience In Our
Seminars
Exercise 1: Experience Your Mind Body Connection Through Visualisation
Description:
Close your eyes & visualise putting a lemon in your mouth. Than begin
to visualise eating the whole lemon on its own for around 5 minutes.
Imagine how the lemon is now tasting intensely bitter & that your
whole mouth is salivating. Now open your eyes & notice how your mouth
is actually salivating. This is a clear example of how your thoughts
directly affect you body. All you are doing is having thoughts of eating
a lemon & after a few minutes this directly creates a physical
affect in your body (e.g. your mouth salivating)
Description:
Close your eyes & visualise a particular area of your body warming
up & getting hot. Do this intensely for around ten minutes & than
touch the particular body part that you have been visualising. Notice
how the body part that you have been visualising is now warmer than
the rest of your body. This is a simple & another examples of how
your thoughts directly affect your body by warming a particular part
of your body.
Exercise 2: Changing Own Body Perceptions And Focus
Description:
Think of an area of your body that you do not like & than change
your overall perception of how you feel about that particular body
part by thinking of all the parts of your body that you really like.
By doing this you put the part of the body that you dislike into perspective & instantly
change how you overall feel about your body from a negative perspective
into a positive perspective. This is the power you have in being able
to change the way you feel about yourself simply by changing your perceptions.
Exercise
3: Changing Any Compulsive Thought Patterns About
A Particular Issue/Event That Has Occurred In Your
Life
Do you have a particular issue or event in your life
that you compulsively worry about & cannot get
off your mind? Than try the following Cognitive Psychology
techniques (Burn.
D.D, 1999)
to change your compulsive thinking.
• Focus on the positive things that are happening
in your life so that you can put this issue/concern
in perspective.
• Are you sure that you have not distorted this
issue & made it much worse than it really is?
. If you think that you have than try to gain a more
realistic perspective on what you are worrying about
& your realise that what your are worrying about
is not so bad after all.
• Examine all the evidence that is related to
the issue that you are worrying about & establish
is the evidence really shows that it is worth putting
this much worry into this particular issue.
• Double Standard Method. What would you say
to another person who was worrying about a similar
issue in the same way that you are? I am sure that
you would tell the person not to worry so much. Therefore
you should take your own advice & start worrying
less.
• Distraction. Try to focus on something that
will help you become distracted from this issue every
time you start worrying about it.
• Think about what is the ‘Cost’
of constantly worrying about this issue in your overall
life. Is all this worrying doing you any good or is
it distracting you from moving on with other aspects
of your life?
• Imagine having a section in your head where
you can put this issue away in a ‘Compartment’
so that it does not overtake your way of thinking.
• Allow for imperfections in your life. Nobody
has a perfect life, as there is no such thing as a
perfect life. Everything is a learning experience
& it is important that you do not develop a perfectionist
attitude in your life.
The
essence of these cognitive psychology techniques is
that your are now your thoughts. You are the person
having these thoughts. In Meditation this is known
as the ‘gap’. You therefore have you have
power to choose what thoughts you have & how react
to any issue or event that has occurred in your life.
This includes compulsively worrying or thinking about
a particular concern that you have in your life
References
Burns, D.D.
1999, The Feeling Good Handbook, A Plume Book, New
York,
Exercise 4: Power Of Beliefs
Description:
Write down all the beliefs that you have from all areas of your life
(e.g. work, money, relationships, health etc.) Than change any negative
beliefs into positive ones & starting implementing the new positive
beliefs into your life on a daily basis. You do this actually believing
the beliefs.
When you begin to fully believe & live the beliefs on a daily
basis you will notice how the areas of your life that you want to improve
will begin to change for the better – as our beliefs create our
realty by being a direct reflection of what we are thinking inside.
Exercise 5: Teenage Empowerment Techniques
Description
Teenagers can begin to empower themselves from early on in life by
incorporating the following success keys into their lives
• Key 1:Believe In Yourself
• Key 2: Do Not Doubt Yourself Or Your Ability
•
Key 3: Persist With Your Goals & Never Give Up
• Key 4: Do What You Love In Life (esp. In Your Work)
•
Key 5: Use People Around You To Help You Achieve Your Goals & Deal
With Problems You Have
•
Key 6: When Things Go Wrong In You Life, Don’t Worry & Know
That You Will Be Alright – Sooner Or Later Circumstances Always
Turn Around
•
Key 7: Have Faith In Yourselves & Your Talents
•
Key 8: Accept & Love Yourselves For What You Are (esp. Your Bodies)
• Key 9: Be Thankful For What You Have In Life
Exercise
6: Point Of Power
Description:
Your point of power resides in the now. There is no past (its just
a memory) & no future (its just a mental projection). Therefore
your power to choose, change your beliefs and create the life that
you want lies in the now
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