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Create a Relaxation Anchor to Dissolve Holiday and Anytime Stress
In this episode you’ll learn how to prepare for - and navigate through - holiday season stress with a simple and effective stress releasing technique that is, literally, at your fingertips.
This simple and effective method is not only great for holiday stress, but you can use it anytime you’re dealing with stressful situations.
Speaking of stress, as I record this episode in the United States, we’re in the holiday season beginning with Thanksgiving followed by Christmas, and New Year’s. This time of year can be a joyous time, but it can also be a time of high stress created by an array of memories, beliefs, and emotions.
The purpose of this episode is not to offer treatment methods to identify and dissolve root causes of issues related to holidays. There are therapists and practitioners of Energy Psychology methods for that kind of work. If that is a path you would like to explore, I invite to visit my main Stress Solutions, LLC website at www.EFT-MD.com.
This episode is designed to offer you a simple way to prepare for and easily handle potential stress creating experiences using a technique from a method called NLP, which is short for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. That technique is called anchoring, as in anchoring in a Relaxation Response to dissolve stress.
I’m sure you’ve heard the story of Pavlov’s dogs. Back in the 1890s, Russian researcher Ivan Pavlov conducted an experiment where he feed his dogs while simultaneously activating a sound. At first he used a metronome but later he used a bell. When the food was presented to the dogs, the dogs would salivate in preparation for eating the food.
After several times of presenting the food and activating a sound, Pavlov simply activated the sound without presenting any food to the dogs.
Regardless of the fact no food was present, the dogs salivated just as if the food was in front of them. The dogs associated the bell with being feed. This stimulus - response reaction became known as Classical Conditioning.
Due to how the brain is wired, this same type of response can be programmed into our behavior. You and I will create what’s called a Relaxation Response Anchor you can activate anytime in the future to neutralize or reduce a Stress Response. As a matter of fact, we’ll create a double anchor using physical touch and three words.
1-Page Guide
I have a 1-page guide for you. This 1-page guide leads you through each step of, "How to Create a Relaxation Response Anchor”. Get your 1-page by emailing [email protected] and entering the word, “Anchor” in the subject line and I’ll send that out to you right away.
If you’re driving or otherwise engaged in activities that require your full attention, then please have a go with this method later when you can give your full attention to the process.
How to Create the Relaxation Response Anchor
Find a chair where you can sit upright in a comfortable position. Avoid slouching and avoid a ramrod stiff posture. Sit upright, body relaxed, head erect with eyes relaxed as if looking out over the ocean where the water meets the sky. Your ears will be over your shoulders and your shoulders will be over hips.
Allow three comfortable breaths as you close your eyes. Using your dominant hand, bring the tips of your index finger and your thumb together gently touching one another.
Bring to mind a positive memory of a time you felt unstoppable, a time you felt on top of the world
Bring that memory to mind clearly. As you replay that memory in mind, increase the pressure to a moderate level where the tips of your thumb and index finger are touching. As you make the memory big, bold, and bright,...
In this episode you’ll learn how to prepare for - and navigate through - holiday season stress with a simple and effective stress releasing technique that is, literally, at your fingertips.
This simple and effective method is not only great for holiday stress, but you can use it anytime you’re dealing with stressful situations.
Speaking of stress, as I record this episode in the United States, we’re in the holiday season beginning with Thanksgiving followed by Christmas, and New Year’s. This time of year can be a joyous time, but it can also be a time of high stress created by an array of memories, beliefs, and emotions.
The purpose of this episode is not to offer treatment methods to identify and dissolve root causes of issues related to holidays. There are therapists and practitioners of Energy Psychology methods for that kind of work. If that is a path you would like to explore, I invite to visit my main Stress Solutions, LLC website at www.EFT-MD.com.
This episode is designed to offer you a simple way to prepare for and easily handle potential stress creating experiences using a technique from a method called NLP, which is short for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. That technique is called anchoring, as in anchoring in a Relaxation Response to dissolve stress.
I’m sure you’ve heard the story of Pavlov’s dogs. Back in the 1890s, Russian researcher Ivan Pavlov conducted an experiment where he feed his dogs while simultaneously activating a sound. At first he used a metronome but later he used a bell. When the food was presented to the dogs, the dogs would salivate in preparation for eating the food.
After several times of presenting the food and activating a sound, Pavlov simply activated the sound without presenting any food to the dogs.
Regardless of the fact no food was present, the dogs salivated just as if the food was in front of them. The dogs associated the bell with being feed. This stimulus - response reaction became known as Classical Conditioning.
Due to how the brain is wired, this same type of response can be programmed into our behavior. You and I will create what’s called a Relaxation Response Anchor you can activate anytime in the future to neutralize or reduce a Stress Response. As a matter of fact, we’ll create a double anchor using physical touch and three words.
1-Page Guide
I have a 1-page guide for you. This 1-page guide leads you through each step of, "How to Create a Relaxation Response Anchor”. Get your 1-page by emailing [email protected] and entering the word, “Anchor” in the subject line and I’ll send that out to you right away.
If you’re driving or otherwise engaged in activities that require your full attention, then please have a go with this method later when you can give your full attention to the process.
How to Create the Relaxation Response Anchor
Find a chair where you can sit upright in a comfortable position. Avoid slouching and avoid a ramrod stiff posture. Sit upright, body relaxed, head erect with eyes relaxed as if looking out over the ocean where the water meets the sky. Your ears will be over your shoulders and your shoulders will be over hips.
Allow three comfortable breaths as you close your eyes. Using your dominant hand, bring the tips of your index finger and your thumb together gently touching one another.
Bring to mind a positive memory of a time you felt unstoppable, a time you felt on top of the world
Bring that memory to mind clearly. As you replay that memory in mind, increase the pressure to a moderate level where the tips of your thumb and index finger are touching. As you make the memory big, bold, and bright,...
