Stress Busters: NLP Techniques to Beat Stress
Remember NLP is often more about the development and change of attitude and modelling, than the techniques themselves.
We all need a certain amount of stress to keep us healthy. However, too much stress causes chemicals that destroy the brain. The art is to develop the ability to let go of excess stress. This is an excellent list of Beating Stress Exercises by Richard Bandler and Owen Fitzpatrick with some additions.
1. Instruct Yourself
Tell yourself to, "Shut up!", or, "Oh, keep quiet" when you are giving yourself a hard time by listing faults and failures. Say to yourself, "So what?" or, " And, your point is.....?", when you are worrying needlessly. Repeat these as mantras, especially when you use hear yourself say 'What if?'
2. Stay in the present
Take some time each day just to notice and appreciate where you are: to relax, lett the sights, sounds and feelings you experience simply be there. Do this for about five to ten minutes.
3. Reframing Stress
Think about and try to understand what the intention behind the stress is. Once you know this, find out how you can fulfill the intention without the stress.
4. Relaxation or Meditation
Set yourself 5-15 minutes every day to find a quieter place to relax. Take this time to close your eyes, day dream your favorite scenario, your body completely relaxing and imagine how you would feel if success was assured.
Make the images as vivid as possible and enjoy the relaxation with complete abandonment for a few minutes. You can also offer yourself some positive suggestions or affirmations while you are relaxing. The secret is not to try too hard to get it right. Focus only on how much you are relaxing, not whether you are or not.
5. Finish Things
Remember to write down all the things you have to do the following day before you leave work. Write things down and use a diary so you can afford to put things in the 'back of your mind'.
6. Close things off
At the end of the day, finish your time at work by turning the computer off, opening and closing every door and drawer and cabinet. By doing all of these actions once, it provides your brain with an indication that everything has been closed off and finished for the day. Write a list of what you have to do the following day: the order you will do it in, and anything you have to finish the next day.
7. Worry Pad
Get a worry pad and carry it around with you. Every time you find yourself worrying, think about what you can do about the worry at that moment. If you can do something about it, then do it. If not simply put it on your worry pad and set aside 10 minutes every evening to look over your worries and then worry solidly for those 10 minutes.
8. Change your Inner Pictures
Pay attention to what images you make when you are stressed and make them smaller, move them far away and make them fuzzy and dim.
Replace them with more relaxing images and make the new images big, bright, colorful and vivid.
9. Change your Inner Voice Tone
Change the tone of your inner voice and make it ridiculous so that instead of it sounding stressed, it sounds like Mickey Mouse or make it a deeply seductive voice.
10. Laughter Filter
Use the laughter filter to frame every stressful situation in a humorous way.
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Source: ppimk.com
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