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Table of Contents
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What Causes Your Anxiety?
Your Best Anxiety Solution
Frequently
Asked Questions - 1
Procedure
For Use
Practice Exercises
Frequently
Asked Questions - 2
Module 1
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Removing Emotional Trash
Module 2 –
Helping You Feel Better TODAY
Module 3 –
Helping You Move FORWARD
Module 4 – Parents' Program
Module 5 – Siblings' Program
Help Guide
Helpful Offers For You
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A Teen's Guide to Self-Acceptance &
Lasting Self-Esteem
By Michelle Skeen, PhD
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It is actually abnormal for human beings to have chronically
negative mindsets. Barring any physical damage, our brains
start out with a neutral default setting at their start of
development. Negative thought processes are then learned
throughout ones life.
However, negativity does NOT need to dominate and dictate
your life choices. Negative thoughts and emotions CAN be
cleared from your life, if you truly want them to be...
Here you will begin to experience just how powerful the
Backward8
procedure truly is at actively neutralizing and
breaking the emotional connections you feel to each negative
thought that is causing your unwanted stress and anxieties! |
Backward8
Protocol for
Clearing Out Your
Persistent Negative Thoughts -
From Your Past Experiences
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DO THIS
FIRST:
Make a
list of every emotional negative thought that you have,
or that you've had in the past
(list as many negative
thoughts as you can think of).
Don't be
afraid to add something to the list if it feels right to you.
Please try to be as specific as possible. And just remember....
THERE ARE
NO WRONG ANSWERS!!!
Start each
statement in your list with the letter
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I
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I've
given you several good examples so you will know exactly
what you need to do. You are welcome to use these stressful
examples in your list, and add more of your own. These
examples are offered to help REMIND you of many different
types of common stressful issues.
You
SHOULD STILL work through all of these examples
even if they do not directly apply to your own situation.
Also, wherever you see a blank spot in a phrase, such as
__________, please fill in the blank your own appropriate
response – if possible (and if it
is applicable). |
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What
negative thoughts do I often get?
I keep
thinking that I'll never _______ right,
I feel hurt whenever I hear negative comments from others,
I feel like such a big loser after being called one for so
long,
I feel like I don't deserve to be successful, because
______,
I feel like I am not worthy of having good things in my
life,
I feel like my friends think I am a bad _______,
I feel like everybody thinks of me as the biggest ______,
I sometimes feel like I'll never be anything but a cross-dresser,
I don't think I'll ever make it as a passable male,
I feel so disappointed with myself, because _______,
I keep thinking that I will mess up _______,
I keep remembering all the bad things ______ called
me,
I feel so depressed because of _______,
I feel like nobody takes me seriously as _______,
I feel like my parents don't like me this way,
I often feel like I'll never make it in life as a successful
______,
I feel like I just don't matter in the world,
I feel like I would rather just die,
I sometimes feel like the world would be better off without
me,
I feel so fat any ugly after being called that all these
years,
I still feel some of this remaining stress from _______,
Please add more
of your own
negative thoughts to this list. |
Note:
Whenever you clear out the anxious intensity from the negative
aspects of an issue, it can be extremely helpful
if you replace that negative issue with an empowering,
positive CHOICE statement (a
Backward8
Power-Phrase).
And, there is nothing more empowering than making a
definitive choice to do something. That is why this
next step gives you a positive-choice affirmation
immediately following the removal of a negative issue using
the special anxiety-clearing exercises in this
Backward8
course.
PLUS, this step will help to make it a permanent habit for
you to automatically LINK a positive thought to any negative
issue, so that whenever something negative happens to you, a
positive thought will immediately
and automatically pop into your mind –
instead of a negative thought! |
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DO THIS SECOND:
Create Your Backward8
Power-Phrases...
Write "Even
though" in front
of each of your statements
and
add 87654321 after your statements.
Then, add the following
words to the end of your statement:
"I
CHOOSE to deeply love and accept myself - no matter what!"
For
example:
If your statement was...
"I keep
thinking that I'll never pass as a real male."
Your new statement would then become:
"Even though
I keep thinking
that I'll never pass as a real male,
87654321
I CHOOSE to deeply
love and accept myself - no matter what!"
Do that for every
issue statement in your list from above.
You are welcome to
modify the positive choice
Power-Phrases so they are
more applicable
to your own specific needs.
Just make sure every statement is positive, personal, and in the
present tense
(as though it is already happening now).
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DO THIS
THIRD:
Perform Your Backward8
Procedure
Remember, this works the same way as anything else, the more
counting
repetitions you do,
the better your results
will be! So...KEEP
COUNTING!
Procedure
Select
a statement from your list above, and
mentally visualize
(imagine) yourself
feeling the stressful intensity that
you WOULD feel if you were actually experiencing
that
right now, then repeat each of your complete statements as
you have written
them out (including counting backward from 8)!
Keep repeating this process for each issue until you no longer feel any
intensity from the issue!
You will gain positive results for some issues much faster
than you will for other issues.
So, be patient, and your results will come for you.
Backward8
is a process, NOT an event!
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NOTE...
It is very common for
other thoughts or emotions to pop into your mind while you are counting.
While you're doing the exercises,
you will likely discover all kinds of new, unrealized
thoughts
and emotions that may have been
buried deep within your subconscious mind for
years...
possibly even since your early childhood.
If, at anytime, while you're working through any of the
exercises in this Backward8
course,
you notice any other negative thoughts or stressful emotions
popping up, even if they do not directly
apply to the
particular exercise you're working on at the moment, then
you should write
them down,
and take some extra time to clear all of those negative
issues, as soon as possible! It's THOSE
negative thoughts
and emotions that will get in your way as you go forward in
your life!
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