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Lesson #7: Using Guided Imagery to Learn New Ways of Thinking

Hello again. I'm Bob Miller ND with your final lesson on permanently conquering stress.

You now have the knowledge how to significantly reduce stress and dramatically improve your life. However, now its time to take this knowledge and put it to use in your life. If you don't put these principles to real life use and application, you won't reap the benefits, such as reduced stress levels, greater confidence in yourself and the increased chance of success in your relationships and career.

Before I show you how easy and effortless it is to put these powerful concepts into you life, let's do ......

A Brief Review

The basis of this stress management program is that sorrow issues are the root cause of stress in our life. This includes unmet needs and expectations, setbacks, disappointments, traumatic life events, losses, too much being demanded, or not enough resource to meet the demands.

Sorrow issues include all the life event that disappoints you, discourages you, demands too much of you, is critical or disapproving of you, agitates or makes you fearful or worry.

These life challenges are the root causes or triggers of your stress. As a result of sorrow issues, you experience fear. This may be fear for the future, fear of being harmed in some way, fear of not meeting your goals and expectations, fears of others being hurt or fear of rejection or criticism. Next, you experience anger. This can be expressed as typical anger, or may be turned inward as depressing thoughts, guilt or shame or you can become bitter and cynical.

After all this, your self esteem is lowered and you begin to worry, over think or become anxious. It becomes a vicious circle. Some individuals become depressed, or drink or take drugs to numb the pain, or try to compensate by having power or money, or try to control others. The methods we try to compensate is endless.

Your solution is.....

Learning New Thought Patterns and Ways of Thinking

Here's the Five Powerpacked, Life Changing Principles You Need to Put Into Practice in Your Life

  • "I am Complete and Whole in Mind and Spirit", despite any past sorrow issues or ones I will experience in the future.
  • "I am courageous and victorious", and have all the courage to face setbacks or failure, criticisms or rejection.
  • "I have released all anger" at others, the world, and myself.
  • "I am worthy and valuable", despite any sorrow issues, or what others say or do
  • My mind is "Peaceful and Calm" no matter what has happened to me, or what is going on around me.

When these principles are a part of who you are and how you think, not only will your stress levels plummet, but you will feel good about yourself, and have all the confidence you need to reach your personal and professional goals.

The Key to Accomplish this is......

Cognitive Restructuring - Learning New Thought Patterns

Cognitive is your thinking, and restructuring means to change

[Pager], you need to change the way you think about life sorrow issues. When you take on and implement these powerful life changing principles, your personal and professional life will take a dramatic change for the better.

In your previous lessons, you learned how you would feel and act if you felt complete despite the life sorrow issues, moved past fears, released anger, restored your self-esteem and stopped worrying. Here once again, are the five new thought patterns you need to learn and implement are:

1. In mind and spirit, you are complete and whole, no matter what happened or what comes your way.

2. Fears are illusions. You can find the courage you need to move past your fears. You are not defined by what others think or say, and you are not a failure, if things you try are not successful.

3. Release anger, resentment, bitterness. Let it go. Forgive

4. You are worthy and valuable

5. Learning to release worry and anxious thoughts and have a peaceful mind.

I'm sure you agree, you would like to think this way, but perhaps are unsure if you can change. That's a normal reaction. Let me show you how easy it can be.

Using Mental Imaging to Learn New Ways of Thinking

Interestingly, your mind works in pictures. If I were to ask you to describe the kitchen in your home, you would immediately pull up a picture of your kitchen in your mind and then describe it. Your mind often thinks and learns with pictures. So, to learn new ways of thinking, I am going to teach you how you can make pictures in your mind that represent your old way of thinking, then have you imagine this picture changing.

When you do this, a very powerful thing happens. When you picture and imagine in your mind that an emotion you are feeling is a picture and then you see that picture changing, your thought processes will follow along and over time, you will use this new way of thinking permanently!

Let me say this again. When you picture and imagine in your mind that an emotion you are feeling is a picture and then you see that picture changing, your thought processes will follow along!

Here's all you have to do......

Take your emotions of loss, fears, anger, lowered self-esteem and worry and make a mental picture of them. Then, in your "minds-eye" see this picture changing. As you see this picture changing, your mind "learns" this new way of thinking.

Using Guided Imagery to Create the Mental Pictures

Guided imagery is as the name implies, guides through making mental images in your mind. With Tranquilities for Persons Experiencing Stress, the people speaking and guiding you are myself and Rev. Donna Shenk, Chaplain at the Ephrata Community Hospital in Ephrata, PA.

To use guided imagery, you sit comfortably in a chair, put on headphones and start the CD. It's best if you are in a location where you won't be disturbed. It's important that you are calm and relaxed, so there are no distractions.

So, on each of the five CDs in Tranquilities, there is soft gentle music along with relaxing environmental sounds, such as the sounds of the ocean, a gentle rain in the forest, a campfire, a gentle stream deep in the woods, or wind chimes blowing and ringing in a garden.

To help you relax, Donna and I guide you through some simple breathing exercises and muscle relaxation techniques. Then, after you have closed your eyes, and the music and environmental sounds have you deeply relaxed, we begin telling a "story" that easily guides you into making mental images that represent your sorrows, fears, anger, lowered self-esteem and worries.

It's easy, relaxing, peaceful and fun to do.

In each story, we gently guide you into making a mental picture of the negative emotion, and then, as the story weaves along, the mental image is changed. You will understand this when I give you an example, and you will see how easy this really is!!

For example, in the Courage CD, after we step you through the relaxation process, we encourage you to imagine that you are at the ocean. The gentle, rhythmic sounds of the ocean help you create this mental image.

Then, we invite you to pull up a fear you are currently dealing with and want to find the courage to move past. We then instruct you to make a mental picture in your mind of a wall, a wall that represents your fear. Since this is your imagination, you can make the wall any size and shape you want.

Next, Donna and I gently guide you in imagining that the ocean waves gently wash away the foundation beneath the wall. Just as when you are read a story, you see the action in your mind. Here's the exciting part, as your mind "sees" your fear as a wall, and then "sees" the powerful ocean washing it away, your innermost part of your mind accepts that this fear is gone.

That's all there is to it, you are training your brain to change it's perception, or cognitive restructuring. One of the biggest challenges I have is helping people understand the power of this simple exercise. To many, it seems too simple, and therefore ineffective. However, this is a powerful and easy to use technique that you can easily use to improve every part of your life.

Each CD follows the same format:

  • Relax through breathing and muscle relaxation
  • Pull up the negative emotion
  • Make a picture representing the negative emotion
  • See the picture changing
  • "See and Imagine" yourself experiencing the positive results of the new thought patterns.

Since the entire program is based upon "sorrow issues" creating grief and loss, followed by fears, then anger, then lowering self-esteem and creating worry, the five CD's in Tranquilities follows the same format.

Here's the title of each CD and the mental images used

Restoration - To help you feel complete and whole despite losses, you "imagine" your sorrow as an "emptiness" or "something missing" inside you. As you go through the imagery, you see this part of you being filled in.

Courage - As we discussed above, for fear, you "see" your fear as a wall that the ocean waves wash away.

Release - To release anger, guilt, shame or depressing thoughts, the imagery we use is to imagine your anger as a hot ember in your right side, that's taken out and placed in a gentle rain, where it cools.

Value - To build your self-esteem, we encourage you to imagine the life incidents that lowered you self-esteem as a weight around you neck. This weight is removed and placed in a campfire , where it is destroyed.

Serenity - To release worry, we encourage you to imagine any worries as a knotted rope in your stomach area. Then, the rope is loosened, and you release your worries.

Use Your Personal Faith if Desired

For many individuals, their personal faith is important to them. It's for this reason, on each CD, there are two versions of the imagery. In the first version, we encourage you to feel God's presence and read an Old Testament scripture, usually from the Psalms. The imagery also suggests that God is helping you during this time.

For those who do not wish to use references to God or scriptures, the second track on each CD eliminates these references.

Aromatherapy and Affirmations

I added two more powerful techniques to the imagery; Aromatherapy and affirmations, to really help your subconscious learn these principles.

Aromatherapy oils are liquids that come from the inside a plant. The oils that are used in aromatherapy have very distinct odors. Historically, some oils are used to help support a person with a specific emotional issue. For example, Lavender is very calming

Tranquilities includes five bottles of aromatherapy oils. There is one bottle to use with each of the five CDs. One bottle is called Restoration, to be used while listening to the Restoration CD, the one to be used for sorrow issues. When listening to the CD, we ask you to pull up the emotion of loss. You have the bottle in your hand, and then gently smell the aroma. The oils in the blend were carefully chosen to assist with the feelings of grief and loss.

The Conditioned Response

Then, after you have "changed" the mental picture , you are instructed to smell the aroma again. As you do this, your mind learns to associate this aroma with the new positive emotion. This is called a conditioned response.

After you learn to associate the smell of the oil with your new thought pattern, any time in the future, you can smell the oil and you will be reminded of your new positive thoughts.

Affirmations

After the imagery has you change the mental picture to the new one, you are given a positive affirmation to say. For example, for the CD on sorrows, the affirmation is "I am complete in this present moment." You are instructed to say this affirmation while smelling the oil. As you do this, you will associate the aroma of the oil with the affirmation and desired outcome.

After you associate this unique aroma with the positive desired outcome, we also suggest on the CD, that in the future, when you smell this aroma, you can also say the affirmation, and the two together will continue to reinforce your new desired thought process. So, you can carry this aroma around with you during the week, or apply a drop to you wrist or a tissue, and continue to smell the aroma while saying the affirmation. You learn by repetition.

To my knowledge, this is the only program that combines aromatherapy with guided imagery, so that many factors are working together to help you learn these new ways of thinking.

Review of Tranquilities

You experience stress from the emotions of loss, fears, anger, lowered self-esteem and worry.

The five Tranquilities CDs and five aromatherapy oils, logically take you through these five emotions and help you learn positive ways of thinking. Each CD follows the exact same format:

  • Soft music to help you relax
  • Deep breathing and progressive muscle relaxation to further help you relax
  • We suggest an environmental setting for the imagery, and have appropriate environmental sounds to support the imagery
  • An Optional track allows you to sense and feel God's presence and a scripture is read.
  • Suggest you pull up and be aware of the negative emotion (sorrow, fear, anger, lowered self-esteem or worry)
  • Suggest you smell the aromatherapy oil
  • Make a mental picture of the emotion
  • The imagery describes how the picture is changing shape, being removed or transformed
  • Imagine and "see" the new way of thinking
  • Smell the aromatherapy oil and say the affirmation (learn to link the smell of the oil and new pattern of thinking)
  • At this point, the imagery is over and we suggest you open your eyes.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I hear what the CD's sound like?

At the Tranquilities website; www.tranquilities.com we have links to the environmental sounds. Its located at http://www.tranquilities.biz/environmentalsounds.cfm

Also, on the page for the stress series, http://www.tranquilities.biz/stressseries.cfm , you can hear very short explanations of each imagery. You will hear my voice, Rev. Shenk's voice, the music and environmental sounds.

How Long do I need to Use the CDs ?

The length of time to use them varies for each person, but if I had to make up a general rule of thumb, I suggest the following. Identify the sorrow issues most significant in your life, and then use the Restoration CD daily for a week. If you can't listen every day, keep going until you have listened at least 7 times.

If after 7 days you feel like you are ready to go on, move on to Courage. If not, keep going. Clearly, if you just lost a loved one, compared to someone who didn't get the promotion they were expecting, the depth and seriousness of the sorrow issues are significantly different.

Then, I recommend you use the CDs in the order of how we experience the emotions, Courage to move past fears, Release to let go of anger, Value to build self-esteem and Serenity to relax the mind from worry and over thinking.

Using Tranquilities is relaxing, easy and fun. You kick back and relax in an easy chair, close your eyes and make some mental pictures. What could be easier?

I trust in these seven lessons, you gained some valuable insight in to how to reduce your stress so you can improve your health, career, personal and family life. It took years of research and thousands of hours to create this entire program. And now, you can benefit from it all by putting it into practice yourself.

The Five CDs and Five Aromatherpy oils in Tranquilities is only $49.95. As an added bonus, I'll include a sixth CD called Peaceful Rest. This CD is perfect for those nights that you may have trouble sleeping. The night sounds of crickets combine with very soothing music to easily get you relaxed enough to fall asleep. There is no risk on your part. If for any reason you don't like Tranquilities, just send if back for a full and cheerful refund. There is no risk on your part.

I believe that guided imagery is the easiest, most effective, and fastest way to learn these important principles that will change your life. Learning how to stop worry has never been this fast, easy and inexpensive.

 

Tranquilities for Persons Experiencing Stress is five CDs of guided imagery that systematically teaches you these five principles.

Learning and implementing these principles in the past may taken years and cost thousands of dollars.

Now with Tranquilities, in about six weeks, you can learn these principles while you relax in a chair, listening to the CDs

Put Tranquilities to use right away. Order online or print an order form that you can mail or fax to us. The five CDs and five aromatherapy oils are only $49.95
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If you feel that you need some assistance in identifying how you feel these emotions, or overall need help in understanding how to do this work, I have trained stress consultants who can coach you step by step through the process on the telephone.

Stress coaches are $30 per half hour, billed to a valid credit card. To arrange to speak to a coach e-mail us at coach@tranquilities.com or call 1-877-345-3891

For your Health and well being,

Robert Miller ND

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