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Get Out Of Your Head
A toolkit for
living with
and overcoming anxiety
By Brian Sachetta
Bold, Brave &
Courageous:
A No Fear Success Guide For Teen
Girls
By Wyjauna T. Montgomery Maom
How Champions Think
In Sport and In Life
By Dr. Bob Rotella
Express Yourself
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A Teen Girl's Guide To Speaking Up &
Being Who You Are
By Emily Roberts
How To Win Friends &
Influence People
for Teen Girls
By Donna Dale Carnegie
The World Needs Who You Were Made To Be
By Joanna Gaines
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3-6
Do you have
A.N.T.S in
your head?
Do you ever get compliments or praises
from people, and yet you don't truly believe the POSITIVE comments
they're saying about you?
Have you ever heard somebody give you a compliment, and somebody
else say a negative criticism about you, and you automatically
dismiss the compliment as fiction, but you ACCEPT the negative
criticism as fact?
Why is it that you automatically accept the negative comments, but
dismiss the positive comments, outright? Well, when this happens, it
is directly due to the negative programming that has been building
up within your mind throughout your lifetime.
Here is a metaphor for what stops many of us from believing in
ourselves, and keeps us from going after what we want most in our
lives. This metaphor states that our brains have a serious ANT
problem.
What is an ANT?
ANT is an acrostic, which stands for
Automatic Negative
Thoughts...
...and we all have them. They're those "Yeah,
but" moments.
You know, the little negative thoughts that pop into the back of
your mind immediately AFTER you receive a compliment...
"Yeah, but...no
matter how hard I work, _____ will never work out for me."
"Yeah, but...these things never seem to work for me."
"Yeah, but...I always manage to mess things up!"
"Yeah, but...if I screw this one up, I will be _____!"
"Yeah, but...what if I am not able to _____?"
"Yeah, but...if only I was _____."
"Yeah, but...if only I had _____."
"Yeah, but...I just wish I _____."
"Yeah, but...I'm not nearly as good at _____ as I was last year."
"Yeah, but...if that's true, then why do I always feel like such a
big loser?"
"Yeah, but...I'm not really as good at ______ as everyone seems to
think I am."
"Yeah, but...I'm not really good enough for ______."
"Yeah, but...my _____ still doesn't think I am _____."
Whenever you
think a negative thought following a compliment, you get ANTs in
your head!
However, it is
now possible to effectively reverse the
effects of negative programming with repeated use of this
special
PowerCount8 protocol.
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Here you
will use this
PowerCount8
Protocol for
Cleaning
The Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs)
Out Of Your Head
Special Note:
If
you're thinking that this exercise might make you become conceited or arrogant.
Don't worry, it won't.
Instead, you will quickly begin to exude a strong image of self confidence and
self assurance.
Plus, you will likely want to help others to become just as confident and
self-assured as you are.
And
that's usually a GOOD thing, right?
DO THIS
FIRST:
Start repeating
to yourself, some of the compliments that you've received from
others. Now, try to concentrate very deeply on what negative
thoughts and feelings you're getting after you hear yourself saying
these positive compliments out loud.
Now, make a list of every negative thought or emotion that pops into
your mind whenever you hear any compliments, or other positive
comments, being made about you.
Don't be afraid
to add something to the list if it's a negative thought or feeling
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
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 or emotions
automatically pop into my mind whenever I receive a compliment?
I often feel
like I don't measure up,
I often feel like I'm not good enough,
I keep doubting my ability to ________,
I don't feel very confident in myself and my abilities when it comes
to ________,
I don't know if I am good enough to _________,
I just don't know if I can __________,
I feel like I am not as strong as other players at ________,
I don't feel like I'm good enough to be the Team Captain,
I don't think I am strong enough to ___________,
I don't think I am fast enough to ___________,
I don't think I am smart enough to ___________,
I feel like I am such a big loser,
I don't feel like I deserve to be successful,
I feel like I am not worthy of having good things in my life,
I feel like my teammates think I am a bad player,
I feel like everybody thinks of me as the team's weakest player,
I still feel some of this remaining stress from ________,
Please
add more automatic negative thoughts & emotions of your own to this
list
(you can also add non-sports-related, personal ANTS if you want). |
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.k.a.
a
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
your negative emotions, caused by a
negative issue, using the special anxiety-clearing exercises in this
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! |
DO
THIS SECOND:
Create Your
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 accept and believe in myself, completely - just as I am!"
For example:
If your statement was..."I'm not
really as good as they say I am."
Your new statement would then become:
"Even
though
I'm not really as
good as they say I am,
87654321
I CHOOSE to accept and
believe in myself, completely
- just as I am!"
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).
DO THIS THIRD:
Perform Your Power-Count8
Procedure
And remember, this works the same way as anything else, the more repetitions
you do,
the better your results will be!
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Step 1
Select a statement from your list above, and
mentally visualize (imagine)
yourself feeling the stressful intensity that you WOULD feel if that
issue was actually happening to you right now!
Step 2
Notice how much stressful anxiety you feel when you imagine yourself
actually being exposed to that issue.
Then, give that level of stressful anxiety a number rating between 0
- 10...
(with 0 meaning that you feel no anxiety; and 10 meaning that you
feel extremely high anxiety).
Write this number next to that statement on your list.
Step 3
Concentrate Deeply
on
the issue, and count backward from 8, until your emotional
distress has
been reduced down to nothing
(or when your number rating drops to ZERO)!
You will need to CONCENTRATE DEEPLY on how each issue makes you FEEL
(that means --
getting
your anxiety soaring to high levels)...then counting backward from
8.
Remember to take a DEEP breath in through your nose,
and exhale
slowly through your mouth!
REMINDER...
If there are any examples listed that do NOT cause you
to feel any anxiety or stress, then
simply clear through each one of
those examples as though you DO feel (just pretend) anxiety and
stress
from them. Count backward from 8 for each one of those examples. Doing this will help to insure
that you
will be less likely to be affected by those issues at some
point in the future!
Step
4
Now, check to see how you feel about that issue.
Notice if the anxiety you
now feel from that issue has decreased from how it felt before you
started. If you still feel some remaining anxiety from the
issue, give it a number on the 0 - 10 point scale. If it is above a
0 (zero), then you should do additional rounds of
the backward counting.
Your goal is to reduce
your anxiety all the way down to zero
(no anxiety remaining)
by repeating this process.
Keep repeating this process until you no
longer feel any anxiety from each issue you've listed.
Doing this will break the
neuro-connections between the negative
THOUGHTS
in your mind, and the FEELINGS
in your nervous system -
throughout your body!
You will gain positive results for some issues much faster than you
will for other issues.
So, just be patient, and your results will come for you.
This
is a process, NOT an event! |
IMPORTANT:
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You SHOULD STILL
work through EVERY example
I've given you...even if that issue doesn't directly apply
to your own situation.
There often tends to be some commonality between many of the various
negative issues. Therefore you will also gain tremendous benefits by
clearing EVERY issue example listed
above. The more unwanted
neuro-connections you break, the overall better you will feel.
Doing this will help to insure that you will be less likely to be
affected by those issues at some point in the future!
It is this repeated use, while concentrating on the issue, that
gradually weakens and reduces your stress and anxiety levels down to
zero: Repeated
counting weakens the amount of emotional intensity you feel from
your negative issues. Each round whittles away more and more
of the negative emotional connection between your brain and your
body, so that the negative emotions will no longer have any affect
on you.
And then, we basically "rewire" your brain by replacing that
negative thought with a positive affirmation, which we 'cement into
place' by repeating over and over. This is VERY
effective!
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NOTE...
It is very common for
other thoughts or emotions to pop into your mind while you're
backward 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 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 backward count for 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 life! |
This
PowerCount8
methodology is so forgiving that you literally cannot get it wrong.
As long as you
are counting backward from 8, while you're concentrating on an issue,
it's working for you!
So, just keep counting
everyday!
It WORKS!
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