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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
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Doing these
exercises IN ADVANCE of any upcoming events or situations
can greatly serve to relax you while you are actually involved in doing
them!
FUTURE-Stress Prevention
Tool
This special
Backward8
protocol will help you clear out any stress you
might feel during current and future high pressure or nerve-wracking
events.
DO
THIS FIRST:
Begin by thinking of
as many stressful (panicky) situations that you could be involved in.
Make a list of as many of these
stressful situations as you can think of.
Write each phrase as though the incident was already happening to you
RIGHT NOW
(in the present tense).
Even though your event may not be happening until next week,
write your phrase as though
it is happening NOW!
Example:
I feel so nervous
about auditioning for this part in the musical.
Don't be
afraid to add something to the list if it feels stressful 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
–
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
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How many potentially stressful (panicky) or nerve-wracking situations
might I be involved in at some time
in the future?
I am so
nervous about driving in this bad weather,
I am so worried about walking on this slippery parking lot,
I am so worried about being caught by Campus Security while I am
_____,
I am scared because I've lost my keys,
I feel so scared because I just locked my keys in the car,
I am so afraid of this severe weather approaching,
I am so worried about attending this party,
I feel so intimidated because I have just been harassed,
I feel nervous and worried about being dressed sexy in this
neighborhood,
I am so worried because my car has been stolen,
I am so mad at myself for missing the bus,
I feel nervous about telling ______ that I used to have a boy's
body,
I feel so afraid of having surgery done,
I feel so nervous about doing this job interview as a woman,
I feel so nervous about walking down this dark street,
I feel so nervous about going on this date as a trans-woman,
I feel so nervous about going ______ as a woman,
I feel so nervous about having ______ for the first time as
a woman,
I am so nervous, because I have an important ______ going
on today,
I am so worried that I'm going to be late for______,
I feel so nervous speaking in front of strangers,
I am so nervous being ______,
I am really dreading this ______,
I still feel some of this remaining stress from _______,
Please add more of your
own stressful situations to this list.
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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 feel completely calm and confident about myself at all times!"
For
example:
If your statement was...
"I feel so nervous
about applying for this job as my authentic self."
Your new statement would then become:
"Even though
I feel so nervous
about interviewing for this job as my authentic self,
87654321
I CHOOSE to feel
completely calm and confident about myself at all times!"
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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