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What Causes Your Anxiety?
Your Best Anxiety Solution
Frequently
Asked Questions - 1
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For Use
Practice Exercises
Frequently
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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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5-2

If you feel embarrassed to
be seen with, or are ashamed of your transgender sibling
in any way, those negative feelings can have an extremely detrimental
effect on your
overall relationship. Therefore, clearing out your feelings of
embarrassment or shame,
now, can make a profound difference in your entire family's unity!
Here You Will Use This Backward8 Exercise for
Clearing Out Any
Embarrassment Or Shame You Might
Feel Over Your Brother Changing His Gender...
Completing this
exercise can help you feel
dramatically
better about yourself and your life!
DO
THIS FIRST:
Make a list of
every
negative emotion you feel about your
brother changing his gender
that causes you any
embarrassment or shame...
Don't be
afraid to add something to the list if it feels embarrassing 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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What makes me feel embarrassment or shame about my brother becoming a female
(or
that I have felt in the past)?
I often feel _______ at
______ for putting me through this embarrassment,
I feel so shamed by my
brother for doing this,
I feel upset with ________ for shaming our family in this way,
I feel so embarrassed just being seen in public places with
_______,
I feel so embarrassed by ________ needing to live as a girl,
I feel like I did something wrong to cause this,
I often feel like I should have shown more love and
attention to _______,
I feel like I caused ________ need to become a girl,
I often feel so embarrassed to be seen with my
cross-dressing
brother in public,
I worry what the neighbors and relatives will think
about _______,
I often get a strong feeling of tension whenever somebody
sees ______ and I together,
I feel so hurt when people give me grief about ________,
I don't feel confident in myself and my abilities when it
comes to supporting my _______,
I often feel _______ whenever I tell somebody that _______
wants to become a female,
I just don't know if I can shake this overwhelming ________,
I feel like I am not strong enough to get over this shame
from ________,
I really feel so embarrassed when ________ wears those loud
high heels in the mall,
I feel like such a complete fool for ________,
I feel like I am not worthy of having good things like
________ in my life,
I feel ashamed because everybody must think of ________ as a
freak,
I feel so ashamed for not supporting _______ from the
beginning,
I still feel some of this remaining shame from ________,
I still feel some of this remaining embarrassment from
________,
I still feel some of this remaining betrayal from ________,
I still feel some of this remaining hurt from ________,
Please add more examples
of your own feelings of embarrassment and shame 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
forgive myself for feeling
this way, and I accept HER at all times!"
For
example:
If your statement was...
"I feel embarrassed to be seen with my cross-dressed
brother."
Your new statement would then become:
"Even though
I feel
embarrassed to be seen with my cross-dressed brother,
87654321
I CHOOSE to
forgive myself for
feeling this way, and I accept HER 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!
Go to page 5-3
Easing Your
Sense of Loss Over Losing Your Brother To Gender Transition
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