The 3-Step Happiness Kit

The 3-Step Happiness Kit

Your thoughts have a direct influence on the way you feel and behave. If you tend to dwell on sad or negative thoughts, you most likely are not a very happy person.

 

Likewise, if you think that your job is enough to give you a headache, you probably will come home with throbbing temples each day. This is just another clear example of the power the mind exerts over the body.

 

Your imagination can be a powerful tool to help you combat stress, tension, and anxiety. You can use visualization to harness the energy of your imagination, and it does not take long - probably just a few weeks-to master the technique.

 

Try to visualize two or three times a day. Most people find it easiest to do so in bed in the morning and at night before falling asleep, though with practice you'll be able to visualize whenever and wherever the need arises.

 

How to visualize
1. To begin visualization, sit or lie down in a comfortable position and close your eyes. Scan your body for any muscle tension and relax the areas that need it.
2. Once you feel relaxed, begin to visualize a scene, object or place that is soothing and pleasing to you.
3. Imagine every aspect of the scene, involving all of your senses. For example, if you like to visualize a waterfall on a mountain, imagine first what this looks like: the rushing water, the stream flowing from it, the size and thickness of the trees all around.

 

Another type of visualization involves an image that you associate with tension which you can replace with an image for relaxation.

 

For example, you might visualize tension as a taut rope, the sound of thunder, the color red, pitch darkness, persistent hammering, or blinding white light. These images of tension can soften and fade into images of relaxation.

 

For instance, the taut rope loosens, the thunder subsides and is replaced by a light rain, red turns to orchid, the darkness begins to lighten, the pounding hammer is replaced by the murmur of cicadas and crickets, the blinding white light softens to a sunset.

 

As you become more involved in your visual image, your body will relax and you will be able to let go of the problems or worries that you had felt before.