How to Attain Peace By Psychological Anchoring
One of the greatest compliments people I meet often pay me is that they feel a state of peace in my presence. Peace is the in my opinion the ultimate goal in life. You can be a millionaire but without peace of mind their is always something missing. (If you can't remember a time. Use you imagination to create the feeling of how wonderful it would to be totally at peace. -if you had all the ease, comfort, and self-control, you could ever need.) 2. Hold this feeling and repeat it over and over in your mind .As you run through this experience in your mind make the colors brighter and richer, the sounds crisper and the feelings stronger. 3. When you're feeling these good feelings, squeeze the thumb and middle finger of your right hand together. You are now connecting psychologically this particular pressure in this particular place with this particular emotion. Now I want you to run through this memory several times until you feel a lovely sense of inner peace and calm When you can feel that I just want you to nod your head so that we can confirm that you know that you are there. 4. Now go through this relaxing memory at least five more times at while continuing to squeeze your thumb and middle finger together. You will know that you've done this enough when all you need to do is to squeeze your thumb like this and you can easily remember the feelings of calm and relaxation spreading through your body. 5. Now, I would like you to think about a situation that in the past you would have found just alittle stressful. 6. Once again, squeeze your thumb and middle finger together. Feel that calm feeling spreading through your body and imagine taking it with you into that stressful situation. Imagine everything going perfectly exactly the way you want . See what you’ ll see, hear what you’ll hear and feel how good it feels to be so much calmer and in control of this situation. Each and every time you do this exercise . It will become easier and easier to experience feelings of relaxation, just at your fingertips.
I have meditated daily for a number of years now and perhaps that has paid dividends. So how can we attain peace by other means? Well in NLP there is a method that is called anchoring which can be used by many people in different ways, but for now lets just apply it to gaining peace at times when our minds are troubled.
If you learn and follow the following exercise regularly you will be amazed at the feeling of being at peace that you can attain.
Find a quiet spot to sit where you will not be disturbed. Sit and breath in whilst saying to yourself "I know I am breathing in and as you breathe out say to yourself " I know I am breathing out." Repeat it four or five times. This will help you to achieve the state of coherance that is optimal for achieving peace.
1. Think of a time when you felt really, really calm -completely at peace and in control.
Make peace your ultimate goal and everything else will fall into place.
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Categories: stress, depression, troubled feelings, problems, Anxiety
Tags: Life Coaching Self Help meditation
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