Here’s an interesting, NLP-esque ritual from TOPY.
This exercise should be repeated every day for 23 days, and at least once per week there after.
Sit comfortably in front ov a mirror.
Move your eyes around, first clockwise direction, then do it in an anti-clockwise direction. Do it a bit longer than you find comfortable. Check your position: are you sitting differently, breathing differently, has soum part ov your body becoum rigid?
Now look into thee mirror and wait until your breathing has becoum even.
Try to put the following expressions into your eyes:
Fear/Terror
Sadness
Longing
Love
Anger
Being there: your Presence in thee eyes.
This should be carried out until you feel that the mirror is definitely staring back at you and that there is soumthing tangible between you and thee mirror.
Pick our one of the first five experiments and try to keep it in your eyes while you look up, down, and to thee sides. Do not look at thee mirror while doing this. Again check your position. Have your facial expressions changed while doing this?
Now relax again. Close your eyes and think ov soum experience which you feel was sad or bad for you. It is very likely that you will have remembered something like that while going through thee first part ov the exercises.
Visualize that experience as clearly as you can and then make it run backwards until you have reached thee point just before thee difficult part started. Keep the image steady then let it fade to WHITE. Slowly. Now build out ov thee white an image ov what you would have liked to happen, soumthing that you feel good. If you are left with a feeling ov relief or exhiliation, allow that feeling to flow through you and then find a spot on one ov your upper arms, preferably where you have a tattoo or birthmark, press it gently with a ginger and then visualize thee feeling being stored in that point.
After doing this for a few times thee spot will in effect becoum a battery or storehouse for that energy and you can press it like a button when you need access to a bit ov optimism and well-being. Sounds stupid? Try, do it, and then report back to us.
September 28, 2006 at 2:03 am
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October 9, 2006 at 7:52 pm
Interesting. I’ll have to give it a try. Have you tried it for the full 23 days, and what were your results?
October 9, 2006 at 7:58 pm
Yes, I did it for the 23 days straight and it worked very well. I found it much easier to get into the excercise after the first few tries. I still find that it works well as a battery when I’m feeling depressed, anxious, etc. or just need a bit of a mood boost. I haven’t stuck with doing it every week, though, I need to start doing it more often to recharge the “battery.”