Dec

Christmas Survival Guide (Part 3)

By Tanya Stocken

Paula Newman is a qualified hypnotherapist practising in Brighton.

Here is a guide from her that will help you survive the festive season.

CUE- CONTROLED RELAXATION

This technique will help you learn to relax immediately, on command, whenever you choose to do so.

This isn’t magic, you have to want to relax, and imagine yourself being relaxed.

By following these instructions you’ll find it extremely quick and easy to relax much deeper than normal.

This is all you need to do. Just close your eyes and relax.

Picture being in a pleasant relaxing scene, either from memory or fantasy. It doesn’t matter how vividly you picture things, just keep your mind on the idea…

Focus on the most relaxing aspects of that scene…

Think about the things happening there that make you feel good…

When you’ve really explored that scene to your satisfaction, you can create your own hypnotic trigger for those good feelings, a signal that you can use to help yourself to experience those same things whenever you choose to do so…

keep thinking of that pleasant, relaxing scene and imagine those good feelings becoming stronger…

Take a deep breath and hold it for a few seconds…

As you exhale, let go slowly and imagine the feelings of relaxation becoming much deeper as your thumb and forefinger draw together locating and magnifying those wonderful sensations.

Now you can add a pleasant feeling to that sense of relaxation.

Feelings of pleasure and relaxation go well together and tend to make each other stronger as you will see!

So now imagine that you are as happy and contented as you could possibly be in that scene…

Imagine actually smiling to yourself inside, really feeling good… now you can make that feeling much stronger as well…

Take a deep breath and hold it for a few seconds…

As you exhale, let go slowly and imagine those pleasant feelings becoming much deeper… Keep focusing on those pleasant feelings making them grow.

Now you can add a word to help you remember those feelings. It can be any word…

You can take another deep breath; this time as you exhale, you can imagine the feelings of pleasant relaxation growing much stronger again as you focus your mind on your word.

Think of the meaning of the word… Say it in your imagination…

If you like picture it and what it feels like. Imagine the word has power to create those feelings when you focus on it in this way. By doing so you can give it that power.

Now you can combine the physical cue of drawing thumb and finger together with your word…

Take another deep breath; this time as you exhale slowly focus your mind on your word and draw that thumb and finger together allowing those pleasant feelings to become even stronger.

The more you repeat this the stronger it becomes!!

Thank you to Paula for providing us with this invaluable tool.

Paula Newman DHypPsych(UK)

Tel:01273 696295 or 07808 141752

Paula practises at Holistic Health Clinic, Brighton.

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