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So if we're spending so much of our life in fight-or-flight stress response, reacting
to things that are going on around us, the people, events, and the stresses of life.That
causes an enormous impact on our body, there's actually chemically response, a chemical response
that goes on in our body based on what we're reacting to. How do we shut that off and move
our body into a calm state. In just a couple minutes here I want to take a couple minutes
and show you how to do that. It's the workhorse of The ICE Method that I use in working with
people all the time to reduce their stress and lower their levels of pain around fibromyalgia
and also many other issues. I'm going to put up a graphic and walk you
through this process. I invite you to watch the video as many times as you want. This
actually will make an enormous difference for your health and your well being. So here
comes a graphic. And you see its simple. It's two points. What's important about this is
that your body will always follow your mind. Most of the time we have so many different
things we are reacting to in our outside world, literallyour body is saying, "How can I help
you? How can I help you deal with this" And so we're on alert. I'm going to invite you
to focus on one of these points. You could also use a point in your room, a point outside,
anything, but for now just choose the red dot and observe it. When you focus on the
red dot, just observe it, nothing special. When you just observe that, you are literally
making a conscious intervention in everything that is going on in your life. For this moment,
by your conscious choice, you are choosing to observe a red dot. And there's not much
going on with that red dot. It's a very simple thing to do. And because your body always
follows your mind, because your body will be the servant of your mind for as long as
you live; your body says, oh, not doing much with that mind, there's not much to focus
on, so I can begin to relax. And you may feel that, you may feel yourself beginning to relax.
Your breath may be slowing down. Muscles may be loosening. You may not feel that, that's
fine. Notice that you can observe that red dot even as you listen to me. Just keep observing.
And now when you're ready, please shift your attention to the yellow dot, or to a second
point in your room, or whatever. But observe that same exact thing again, it's simple.
Because it's simple, and because you're making this conscious choice to something simple,
the signal that goes out to your body is "Hey, there's really not much you're needed for
right now body, so kind of take a rest. And when the body moves toward rest, automatically,
many different chemical changes happen, so it actually focuses on healing and well-being
for your body for the long term. The cool thing about this is that you'll notice between
these two points is a space that has nothing in it. And there's a paper there, but you
can imagine that between any two things, there's a space between them, a space that has nothing
in it. Observe that space that has nothing in it. Just imagine that space and observe
it. The important thing about this is because with your conscious mind you are observing
nothing, it means you have moved into a state you may not have experienced very often, which
is you're reacting to nothing in your outside world right now. You're still able to listen
to me, but you're reacting out there. And when that happens you actually produce a chemistry
based on what your emotion is. When you're observing nothing its very calm, that signal
goes out to all the cells of your body and you're in rest and restoration mode. This
exercise, being in the calm state, would make an enormous difference for your life, if you're
not spending your time in a calm state already. And most people aren't. This is an exercise
that's very easy, very simple to get in the calm state. It's the workhorse of what I do
with The ICE Method in helping people with fibromyalgia. Click back here. And just a
few words of explanation, that actually you're changing your body's chemistry when you do
this exercise. There's other ways to move into the calm space, but I've found that almost
everybody is able to access the calm state using this method. So I use it all the time.
There's other pieces to The ICE Method that I'll explain when we get into the course,
and also a science video I'm going to include here on the same page about memory reconsolidation.
But this simple exercise, and the techniques I can show you to learn to stay in this state,
or return to this state when you have anxiety. They could change your life. They've changed
my life, and they've changed the lives of the people that I work with who I have as
clients. So, I wanted to give you that information.
Feel free to use this video as often as you want as a reminder of how to ocme into the
calm state. Start playing with it. Experiment with it. Notice when you're in distress. Use
this method to come back to a calm state and carry on. Okay, I talk about this a lot in
my book, which I highly recommend as a resource for learning this. It's called Fibromyalgia
Relief. It's of course in the course, the Video course I offer right here at myfibromyalgiarelief.com,
and it's a basis of the community that's here at this website that I invite you to join.
The reason that the community is so important is that its an ongoing source of support and
encouragement and information so that you can have your life, living out of this calm
state more and more, so that it becomes your default state, that your default is calm rather
than stress and that will make a huge difference if you choose to engage this for your life.
So, I thank you very much for your attention. Enjoy those two spaces, those two dots and
the space in between, the calm space for your life. Thank you very much.