No matter how much your Monkey Mind protests, you – and you alone – are the boss. Is it time to stop letting it run the show?
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Clare Josa | Author And Keynote Speaker
UK's Foremost Imposter Syndrome Expert, International Keynote Speaker & 8x Author
No matter how much your Monkey Mind protests, you – and you alone – are the boss. Is it time to stop letting it run the show?
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Just because you told yourself the story, it doesn’t mean it’s true.
Hi %%FIRST_NAME%%,
Welcome to day 15 of How To De-Stress With Mindfulness.
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To download it to listen offline, right click and choose ‘save as’ for this link: Day 15 MP3
How are you getting on so far? Any insights? Any questions?
How did you get on with the ideas and exercises from last time? Fancy sharing?
Week Three: How are you getting on?:
How are you getting on?
And here are all of your week three resources:
Week Three Resources
Are you ready to dive in today?
Your mind is doing its best. And it doesn’t realise the hassle it’s causing. In fact, it’s doing exactly what we have trained it to do – over the decades.
It tells us stories. It passes comment. It evaluates. It tells us what to do and how to feel.
But it can only speak from the perspective of the filters, experiences, beliefs, habits, hopes and fears it has picked up over the years. So its view is biased.
The mind’s stories are more of an illusion – an interpretation – than a statement of fact.
But we believe everything it tells us.
If it tells us we can’t do something, we believe it. If it tells us that our dreams are unrealistic, we believe it. If it tells us that things will go wrong, we believe it.
If it tells us that something is stressful or that we should feel stressed, we believe it.
Just because your mind tells you something is so, it doesn’t mean it is.
It’s ok to question what our mind tells us. It is full of opinion, prejudice, assumptions and leaped-to conclusions, based on a lifetime of practice.
When it sees a stress trigger, it automatically dives into telling us stories about previous stresses. It automatically triggers the unconscious mind’s auto-pilot programmes for reacting to those stress triggers. It effectively removes our choice.
And if we’re in the habit of feeding that adrenalin with more stories, then we’re likely to indulge in telling ourselves (and others) stories about that stress trigger that keep the hormones running high and the adrenalin pumping. We all love a good drama; and the more emotionally charged, the better! In fact, many of us are so attached to our stories that it becomes like an addiction.
But there’s some good news:
All you need to do to reclaim your choice over how to respond is to spot that you are telling yourself a story – then you can choose whether or not to feed it.
“Do I really want to believe this story? Is it really true? Or is it just a story?”
And perhaps the best news is that mindfulness practices help you to spot more easily whether you are telling yourself stories 😉
I’m curious: what are your ‘stress stories’?
At which point of a stressful situation do you notice them creeping in?
And what happens, if you press ‘pause’ and choose whether or not to believe that story? And whether or not to feed it?
How about sharing in the online community – and finding out how others ‘do’ this aspect of stress?
Do I really want to believe the ‘stress story’ I am telling myself today?
Leading on from the whole ‘stress-story’ scenario, there’s a way of applying these insights to help with stress-related worry and anxiety.
Here’s a statement that might provoke some rotten tomatoes from those of you who are seriously ‘into’ worrying 😉
Worrying is just another story we tell ourselves.
Esther Hicks says that “Worrying is a way of creating a future you don’t want.” What she means with this is that if we spend our time telling ourselves stories about what could go wrong and what we don’t want (i.e. worrying), then we are giving all of our attention to those things and we are more likely to spot them – and even actively create them – unconsciously, in our future.
It’s easy to put decades of effort, energy and actions into worrying about those worries or trying to avoid them. The funny thing about worrying is that it never fixes anything. And it feels awful. It’s a habit that many of us are addicted to, but it just breeds more worries.
When we’re worrying, we get stuck in our heads, going over and over and round and round the thing that may never happen – re-telling that story.
The problem is that worrying about it means we’re giving it so much attention that we actually make it more likely to happen.
So what can you do instead? Get active!
If you spot yourself worrying, take a moment to stop and ask yourself two questions:
- “Is this real? Or is it a story I could stop telling?”
- “What could I do differently, so that this is no longer an issue? Is there an action I could take?”
If it’s something outside of your control then it’s time to shift your perspective, so you can move to a place of acceptance.
But if it’s something you can do something about then taking a step towards a solution can remove a huge weight from your shoulders. You’re aiming for any choice that brings a genuine sense of relief – it’s a sign that you’re finally heading in the right direction.
Is it time to let go of something you have been worrying about, today?
Do you need a ‘magic wand’ for worrying?
How will your experience of life change, once your Monkey Mind accepts that worrying is just a pile of stories?
Or do you find your mind reacting strongly against this concept?
Either way, it would be great to hear from you over at the online community:
Want A Magic Wand For Worrying?
Today’s Affirmation:
I can influence the stories I tell myself. I choose to feed the stories that bring me relief and happiness.
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Sometimes it can feel difficult to let go of a story.
Sometimes it’s like a petulant child, clamouring for our attention.
Sometimes it can seem as though it just keeps popping back up, when we least expect it.
Stories can be clever like that.
Want to know what’s going on?
Whenever a story pops up, ask yourself the question:
“How is this story helping me?”
(I know that seems weird!)
… And let the answer bubble up, without judgement; without the interference of your rational mind.
You might like to jot down your insights in your De-Stressing Journal. We’ll be looking at what psychologists call ‘secondary gain’ soon – it’s one of the things that can sabbotage your efforts to de-stress. So having examples of it will give you a head start when we get to that point.
Remember the ‘powerful and strong’ experiment from your first day’s email? It hopefully gave you an insight into how your mind – your thoughts – and your body – your physiological experience of life – are linked… and how these can impact during times of stress.
I’m inviting you to play with a more subtle exercise this time. It tests things out the other way round: demonstrating how the body can influence the mind.
I’d like you to try an experiment with me today, to experience the difference your facial expression can make. It only takes a few minutes – and it might just change your life.
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You’ll probably want some privacy for this, so you don’t feel self-conscious. You’re going to be doing a good impression of a champion gurner… 😉 And you might want a mirror, so you can check what you look like (if you’re feeling like an exhibitionist, you could even take a photo for the forum…)
What did you learn?
What differences did you notice?
How did the gurning go?
How did your ‘face’ impact your emotions? Your body? Your thoughts?
Want to share any insights or questions over at the forum?
Which ‘Face’ Are You Wearing?
Most people who do this little experiment discover that there’s a powerful connection between our facial expressions, our physical body, our thoughts and our emotions.
Your mind and body – and emotions – are inextricably linked. This is a proverbial double-edged sword:
It means that if your Monkey Mind is running on auto-pilot, then your physiology and emotions are running at its whim.
But it also means that there are steps you can take, with your physical body, to shift your mind’s patterns and influence your thoughts and emotions.
And that’s a really important principle behind this week’s mindful walking practice.
I invite you to try out the following visualisation, to prove to yourself how this week’s mindfulness technique will work.
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Aside: This technique is all about visualising – imagining pictures in your head – and imagining the physical sensations you would experience. If you don’t naturally ‘think’ in pictures (like me!), that’s ok. Just allow yourself to get a ‘sense’ of what is in each step of the exercise. It will still work for you.
What did you notice? Any insights?
What did you experience with this exercise? Any insights?
What did you notice? How did it impact your stress levels?
Imagining Mindful Walking
Slow your body and you slow your mind.
Slow your mind and you cut your stress levels.Imagining slowing down is enough to make a difference.
The second half of this exercise was all about mindful walking. It’s a wonderful mindfulness technique that we’re going to be playing with this week.
Mindful walking helps you to:
Mindful walking is accessible to everyone. If you can walk, you can learn to walk mindfully. As you will have found in the last exercise, if you can’t get up and go for a walk, you can imagine it, with similar benefits.
Practising mindfulness while you walk is amazingly powerful, as a way of training your mind to come back into the present moment, but without eating up loads of your time.
You may have ‘done’ mindful walking before, or it may be new to you. Either way, I invite you to let go of any preconceptions and release anything you have done before, coming to this mindful walking process with fresh eyes (or feet!).
We are going to be using walking as a key technique, to build on during the various stages of this course, for 3 main reasons:
- Walking is something we all do, every day, so there’s no excuse not to practise.
- Even if you can’t walk, you can visualise walking, and achieve similar benefits.
- Walking is a very physical process, which most of us do on auto-pilot, so it’s perfect for training ourselves to come back into the present moment and to gently let go of the chattering mind.
Here is this stage’s mindful walking process. It’s simple to follow. Don’t ‘try’ too hard. Just flow with it and let it be enjoyable.
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START: This walking can be done anywhere – outside in nature or even walking up the stairs or around your kitchen. Choose somewhere that you can be on your own, for the first few times.
END: When you feel ready, release your practice and take that snapshot again. How are you feeling – physically, emotionally, mind-wise? Compare that to the snapshot from the beginning. With practise, you’ll notice that the mindful walking makes a tangible difference.
At first, just do this for a few minutes – or even just 10 really, truly conscious, ‘present’ steps. As you get used to it, aim to build up to 10 minutes.
You can do it as often as you like, during the day.
When you have played with this, how about popping by the online forum to share how it went?
How Did You Get On With Mindful Walking?
Remember: it takes practice!
Expecting ‘instant results’ will make it harder for you to keep going with this.
That’s why we’re using the ‘before and after snapshot’, to help you spot the changes. Over time, these will become more obvious. For now, it’s enough simply to keep going.
So please make sure you do your ‘mindful walking’ at least once today!
That’s all for today.
Next time we’ll be looking at the Monkey Mind’s tricks and stories, and discovering practical techniques you can use to let go of them, setting yourself free from some of the old auto-pilot patterns and reclaiming your power of choice.
Your next email will be with you in 3-4 days.
Wishing you a wonderful week!
Namaste,
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Time spent laying foundations saves many a lifetime of replacing fallen bricks.
Hi %%FIRST_NAME%%,
Welcome to your 90 day life-changing course: How To De-Stress With Mindfulness.
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To download it to listen offline, right click and choose ‘save as’ for this link: Day 1 MP3
To download a printable pdf version of this message, which you can read offline, right click on this link: LINK COMING SOON
Over the next 90 days, you will receive twice-weekly messages, bringing you an inspired blend of ancient mindfulness techniques, relaxation techniques and modern practical psychology, to help you deal with stress.
The first message each week will bring you the ‘how to’ and that week’s core techniques.
The second message each week will be a ‘top up’, to help you go a little deeper into the techniques that have resonated for you.
The idea is to bring you all the stress-busting secrets you need, without overwhelming you or adding to your stress levels! 😉
In this week’s two emails, we will be looking at:
This time |
Next time |
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What on earth stress really is | How to spot the progress you’re making | ||
The hidden link between stressful thoughts & feeling stressed | How to magically find time to finish this course | ||
How mindfulness & NLP can help you to de-stress | How to get moral support for your de-stressing | ||
Experiencing a wonderful mindfulness foundation technique | Exploring the symptoms of ‘mindlessness’. | ||
Discovering how to keep yourself motivated for the next 90 days – and beyond | |||
How breathing impacts stress – and how stress impacts breathing |
All the resources you need for week one are in the members-only area of the online community:
Week One Resources
We’ll go through them in more detail at the relevant points of today’s message.
Let’s get started with a whistle-stop tour of what stress is and its impact on us.
You’ve signed up for a course about de-stressing, so you must already have a pretty good idea of what stress means for you. But I’m going to start with a provocative statement (or ten!) about the nature of stress.
I’m going to start by saying something that might annoy some of you – but unless I’m honest about this, up front, then you’re not going to benefit from this course.
[If what I’m about to say means you want to opt out and get a refund, that’s cool – simply email my team at hello@ClareJosa.com!]
So here goes:
At some level – perhaps deeply unconsciously – stress and feeling stressed is a choice.
And that’s brilliant news!
Why?
Because it means you can do something about it!
You and you alone are responsible for – and in control of – how you ‘do’ stress.
No one and nothing can make you feel stressed.
Sure, there can be amazingly effective prompts, situations and stimuli, but the bottom line is that stress is an inside job.
Want to have your say on this one? Want to find out what others are thinking? Here’s a special discussion thread over at the members-only forum for this course:
“Stress is something you do; not something you are.” – Discuss!
Here’s a simplified explanation of the stress cycle:
Stress – and the experience of feeling stressed – is all down to whether or not your mind tells you that a situation is stressful and how your body has been trained to react to your thoughts.
If we experience one of our stress triggers, we start thinking stressful thoughts. Although it might not be our current habit, we can choose whether or not to feed those stressful thoughts, conscientiously nurturing them to become super-stresses, or whether to accept them and gently let them go, moving on to more supportive and empowering thoughts.
Whether you tell yourself you are feeling stressed or whether you tell yourself you are not, you’re right.
We think of something stressful, our body releases its stress hormones, engaging the sympathetic nervous system and the chemical reactions in our body produce our emotions.
Aside: Not convinced how closely mind and body are linked? How about trying this simple test:
Here’s an audio to guide you through this exercise:[audio:https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/htdswm/01/Day01-mind-body-link.mp3]
Your mind, your body, your thoughts and your emotions are linked…
Stressful thoughts automatically trigger your body’s physiological stress response. This includes:
Before we go too far through this course, I’m curious: How do you currently experience stress? Which thoughts do you think? Which emotions do you feel? Which physical sensations do you notice? Here’s a discussion thread, where you can share your thoughts on this one:
How do you experience stress?
Most of us feel stressed, much of the time.
We live our lives as though that sabre-toothed tiger is constantly roaring at the door of our cave.
This means that we spend long periods of time in our body and mind’s ‘emergency response’ mode, rather than using that for genuine times of need and returning to balance – to equilibrium – in between. We usually don’t even notice that we’re doing it; it’s happening at a subconscious level.
The long-term consequences of living from a point of view of stress include mental illness, adrenal fatigue, slow healing and recovery from illness, inability to think clearly and long-term ‘dis-ease’ and chronic disease.
The purpose of our sympathetic nervous system and the impact of our ‘fight or flight’ processes was first observed by Walter Cannon, back in 1932. Since then scientists and psychologists have repeatedly proven the link between the thoughts, the physiological response and the emotional experience.
Stress is an entirely appropriate reaction to the modern equivalent of the sabre-toothed tiger. But it’s NOT useful as an everyday, auto-pilot response to day-to-day situations.
Ongoing stress is NOT normal, necessary or ok.
It doesn’t means that ‘doing’ stress is ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’. There’s no point in beating yourself up over this; it would only make things worse.
However, it does mean it’s time to take action – and that’s what the next 90 days are about: inspiring you to take action that works for you!
Fortunately the whole point of the techniques you’ll get to experiment with over the next 90 days is to help you to break that subconscious cycle, reclaiming your power over which thoughts to feed and setting yourself free from the old auto-pilot stress responses.
NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming – a bit like ‘practical psychology’) is like a user manual for your brain. It’s brilliant at helping you to spot the thought patterns, beliefs and habits that have been keeping you stuck, so you can choose to do something about them. And it’s good at making that ‘something’ straight-forward and highly effective, too.
Mindfulness is an ancient meditation philosophy that helps you to get out of living in your ‘thinking mind’ (also called the ‘Monkey Mind’ or ‘Grasshopper Mind’) and back into the ‘here and now’. It helps you to see what’s real and what’s ‘story’, as well as creating the space between your thoughts to give you back your choice over how to respond to life.
Mindfulness has helped millions of people to shift their experience of life – including cutting their stress levels – for thousands of years. So it’s going to work for you.
Combining these powerful techniques will help you to:
Gain awareness into your personal habits and thought patterns that have been feeding your experience of stress. | |
Be easily able to ‘see’ the difference between what is ‘real’ and what is your mind’s ‘story’ or ‘projection’. | |
Rebalance your sympathetic (‘fight or flight’) and parasympathetic (‘relaxation’) nervous systems, making it less likely that you’ll think stressful thoughts | |
Be more able to choose whether you want to open up the cascade of stress hormones in your body, giving yourself a well-earned break from the stress cycle | |
Let go of old habits that have been keeping you stuck, surrounded by stress triggers | |
Gently retune your thoughts to be more positive and empowering | |
Let go of fretting about the past or worrying about the future | |
Discover your personal de-stress toolkit, to help you shift your experience of life |
The Bottom Line
Stress is a habit.
No matter how ‘auto-pilot’ it all feels, you can change any habit, with the right tools and support.
The next 90 days are going to bring you the tools and support you need, to help you do it!
Now that we have got the whole ‘what is stress’ bit out of the way, it’s time to take a look at why you’re bothering to do all of this. What do you want from the next 90 days?
What’s your ‘why’?
It’s the key to keeping yourself motivated for the next few months – and beyond. So let’s dive in and find out.
Know Your ‘Why’
Before we start any journey – any challenge – any change – it is really important to know why we are doing it.
Knowing our ‘why’ – what is motivating us – helps keep us going.
So, before we go any further with this course, I invite you to take a few moments to do the following exercise.
Here’s an audio to guide you through this exercise: [audio:https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/htdswm/01/Day01-How-to-keep-yourself-motivated.mp3]
Grab yourself a piece of paper and something to write with and allow yourself five or ten minutes just to think and write down your answers to these questions:
I choose to complete “How To De-Stress With Mindfulness” because…
And when you are ready, write that whole sentence up somewhere. Pin it up around your home or around your office. If you notice distractions getting in the way of your efforts to de-stress over the next 90 days (and longer!), you can remind yourself:
I choose to complete “How To De-Stress With Mindfulness” because……
You might be surprised how often that allows you to prioritise working through your de-stressing projects, over the distractions.
The word ‘because’ has an amazing power to get people (including yourself!) to listen to your request and to help you. When they understand why you want their help and why you want them to support you, it makes it much easier for them to buy in. You might be surprised how much friends, family and co-workers do want to support you. Some of them might even want to join in How To De-Stress With Mindfulness with you.
The key is to decide when you are going to work through the de-stressing exercises and projects, what you need to clear out of the way to allow you to do that, and to remember why you’re bothering!
Today’s Affirmation:
I feel excited about de-stressing over the next 90 days, especially now I know my ‘why’.
Want to share your answers? Here are three discussion threads in the members-only area of the online community:
What do you want from How To De-Stress With Mindfulness? ~ Perhaps sharing your answers to questions 1,2 & 3?
How are you planning to overcome any barriers or blocks to your success? ~ Perhaps sharing your answers to questions 4, 5 & 6?
What’s your ‘because’? ~ How about sharing your ‘because’; your ‘why’? And finding out what others area saying?
Is it time to stop ‘pretending’ to breathe?
Most of us are just ‘pretending’ to breathe. We have trained ourselves to do just enough to survive. But most of us aren’t breathing properly. We’re denying our bodies the oxygen-rich fuel they crave, which has implications for our health – physically, mentally and emotionally.
When we’re stressed, our breathing tends to move away from our diaphragm (the area of your stomach above your belly button) up towards our upper chest and even shoulders and throat.
This triggers more stress hormones, reduces the oxygen supply available to the brain and re-engages the sympathetic nervous system (‘fight or flight’). In effect, our stressed-out breathing makes our stress worse.
Fortunately all you need to do, to turn things around, is to take 10 deep mindful breaths.
Here’s how:
{Obviously – please do this within your safe abilities. If breathing deeply is an issue for you, please get help from your chosen medical professional!}
If deep breathing is uncomfortable for you, you can start by visualising it, instead, which will still produce results for you.
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There’s an MP3 recording of this technique, if you’d like to be guided through it, in the members-only area of our online community. Here’s the link to listen to it or to download it:
This is a wonderful practice because it brings the focus back to the breath, bringing the breath back to the lower abdomen, rather than the chest and shoulders – that’s where it hangs out when we’re stressed.
Belly breathing also gives the internal organs a gentle massage (they’re designed to get one, every time the diaphragm moves). It helps re-oxygenate the blood, can improve concentration and generally has a positive impact on health.
The benefits are enormous.
How about trying it out, right now?
This week, I invite you to experiment with this mindful breathing exercise at least once a day – ideally twice or even each time you notice yourself getting stressed.
Can you imagine how things will feel, if you do this twice a day?
If you find you’re stressed when you get home from work, how about taking three or four of these mindful breaths before you open the front door to your home? You could add in the visualisation of your day’s stresses melting away, before you walk through the door.
If you are not looking forward to a meeting, how about doing some of this mindful breathing – with a gentle smile on your face – before you leave your desk to go to the appointment? Can you imagine the difference this could make for you?
Thinking about your typical day, where else might you find this mindful breathing technique helpful?
And I’m curious: how are you going to remind yourself to do it?!
It’s worth deciding on a few ideas now, before you finish reading this message.
When you have had a chance to play with this a few times, how about sharing your experiences over at the members-only area of our online community?
Here’s a link to the discussion thread for the belly breathing technique:
Week One Mindful Breathing
And here’s a link to the general discussion thread for the week one topics – it’s a great place to share any insights and get answers to any questions:
Week One: How Are You Getting On?
Next time we’ll be looking at the symptoms of ‘mindlessness’ and why it’s such a big deal, how to handle the #1 excuse we all make, that stops us from changing our lives, discovering how to ‘magically’ create the time needed to finish this course, exploring strategies to help you spot the shifts you’re making and figuring out how to get moral support for your de-stressing efforts – as well as busting some of your favourite excuses.
I hope you enjoy the beginning of your journey with this course.
Your next email will be with you in 3-4 days.
Namaste,
P.S. If you have any techy questions, please email a member of my team at hello@clarejosa.com and they’ll help get things sorted for you.
I’m a firm believer that there’s no such thing as a stupid question, so I’d much rather have you contact us than have you feeling stuck or not able to join in at the level you want to!
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DAY 21: MEDITATION STIRS THE POT
Emotional first aid and the art of letting go.
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This 90 day interactive online mindfulness course has been specially created to help you discover stress management techniques and quick-acting relaxation strategies, based on simple, yet powerful, mindfulness and meditation secrets.
But it doesn’t stop there.
It also brings you an inspired blend of NLP-based techniques (‘practical psychology’) to help you address the root causes of stress in your life. If you so choose, you will be able to let go of the old habits and thought patterns that fed those stresses, so that feeling happier and more calm becomes a part of your daily experience of life.
How To De-Stress with Mindfulness brings you an inspired blend of ancient mindfulness techniques, highly effective relaxation exercises, NLP (‘practical psychology’), common sense and a dollop of humour.
Whether you’re suffering from ‘mindfullness’ or ongoing stress, or whether you want to relax, feel more calm and reconnect with a sense of inner stillness and peace, How To De-Stress With Mindfulness will guide you on your journey.
It’s not about ‘sticky plasters’.
How To De-Stress With Mindfulness is about genuine life-long change.
Made easy.
The twice-weekly messages will help you to discover practical ways you can experience feeling more calm, happier, less stressed and more peaceful, weaving the techniques into your daily routine, no matter how hectic things are. They are specially designed to allow you to experience tangible benefits, without feeling overwhelmed and letting this course add to your stress levels! 😉
The mindfulness techniques and NLP-based strategies are simple to learn and easy to remember, yet students have found that they profoundly impact their experience of life, helping them to de-stress quickly, when they most need it.
And the magical thing is that the more you experiment with these stress relief techniques, the less you often you will feel stressed.
a noticeable shift in stress levels | |
a quietening of mind chatter | |
a reduction in the physical symptoms of stress | |
fewer stressful times, during a typical day | |
being able to handle stressful situations, more calmly and effectively | |
more times when you feel calm and at peace | |
being able to let go more easily, at the end of the day | |
improved quality of sleep | |
feeling more patient, calmer and happier |
Twice-weekly emails…
Each message brings you powerful mindfulness techniques and NLP-based exercises, to help you lower your stress levels, feel more relaxed and calm your mind. |
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Positive affirmations
These have been specially designed to support each email message, helping you to let go of the old thought patterns that fed those stresses, gently supporting you on your journey to feeling more relaxed and calm. |
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MP3 recordings of each message
Sometimes just ‘reading’ isn’t enough. With MP3 recordings of each of the twice-weekly messages, you can listen to them whenever you want to and allow them to shift your experience of life. |
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Videos demonstrating the key techniques
It can be easier to learn new techniques if you can see them being demonstrated. It makes it easier to really ‘get’ them, discovering how mindfulness and NLP can help you de-stress. |
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Membership of an exclusive area of our Soul-Sized Living forum
This forum area is only available to people who have taken the How To De-Stress With Mindfulness course. Get the moral support you need and share your experiences of the course, as well as getting answers to your questions. |
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A 20 minute deep relaxation and guided visualisation MP3 audio
This specially-designed deep relaxation audio will help you to really relax and make shifts in your life. |
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Free access to Clare Josa’s monthly newsletter: Soul-Sized Living
Get your hands on all the extra articles, members-only MP3s, worksheets and other life-changing treats that are only available to Soul-Sized Living subscribers. |
My passion is helping people to let go of the old baggage, habits, limiting beliefs and excuses that have been holding them back. Whether that’s stress, overwhelm or feeling like you need to reconnect with your inner peace, I have created How To De-Stress With Mindfulness to bring you the tools you need to make life-changing shifts.
The twice-weekly emails are designed to be quick to read and easy to absorb. And if you want to take things further, dive in and enjoy the MP3s, the videos and get involved in the forum.
It is my deepest wish that this course helps you to feel less stressed, more calm and a strong sense of peace, in a hectic world.
Namaste,
Clare
Clare Josa is an NLP Trainer and a Meditation Teacher whose passion is helping people to fall in love with who they really are.
She specialises in making it easy for you to create shifts in your life.
She is the author of numerous books and the creator of a wide range of online courses, as well as face-to-face workshops.
Her original background in Mechanical Engineering means that the inspirational work she shares is grounded in practical common sense, to which she adds a light-hearted, intuitive approach.
To get the most from How To De-Stress With Mindfulness you should expect to invest:
It’s not much to ask of yourself, given the results you will experience by the end of the 90 days!
This course has been developed from over a decade of one-to-one mentoring of stressed Executives, leading NLP seminars and teaching mindfulness and meditation.
It is the first time I have offered such a comprehensive stress-relief programme as an online course. To be guided through this as an Executive would have cost you £3000+ and would have taken over six months.
I have taken the key components from my one-to-one stress-relief mentoring programmes and woven them into this unique interactive online course.
Through twice-weekly emails, regular MP3 audios, videos, worksheets and an online peer support forum, you have access to my £3,000+ Senior Executive stress relief programme:
- at a time that suits you
- in the comfort of your own home
- at a fraction of the cost
… Yet bringing you similar results! 🙂
We have been told by students that it should be priced at more than ten times what we are asking you to contribute. But we want to make sure it reaches as many people as possible, whilst also honouring the fact that there must be some form of energy exchange, in order for the course to work for you. 🙂
This course is part of my ‘conscious pricing’ policy. I want everyone to be able to afford to join in and benefit from this inspirational, life-changing course.
So you get to choose the donation you make.
For example, if you have a high income, you could choose the higher donation level, to help subsidise a place for someone on a low income. But there’s no judgement and there’s no need to feel awkward.
And with my “Love it or leave it!” guarantee, this means you can experience a full four weeks of How To De-Stress With Mindfulness at zero risk.
Conscious Pricing is offered to you in the spirit of honesty, trust and love.
If you are unwaged and genuinely can’t afford even the lowest donation level, please contact us to agree an alternative energy exchange.
You’ll know by now whether your heart is calling you to join in with How To De-Stress With Mindfulness.
If your heart is telling you that this course is something the ‘future you’ wants you to do, then make your commitment today.
Connect with your less stressed, calmer, happier future self by choosing your donation level now and you can start to experience the de-stressing benefits of this unique course in the next five minutes.
90 day interactive course with all the inspirational resources you need
Conscious Pricing |
Chosen Donation |
High income: No coupon needed. |
£111 |
Average income: Use coupon code ICHOOSE55 |
£55 |
Low income: Use coupon code IDONATE28 |
£28 |
If you are genuinely unwaged and cannot make a financial contribution for this course, please contact us to discuss a conscious business solution. 🙂
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To help take any risk out of your decision to join in with this course, I offer a “Love It Or Leave It!” guarantee.
It’s really simple:
So you’ve got nothing to lose – and a lot of de-stressing and inner peace to gain!
90 day interactive course with all the inspirational resources you need
Conscious Pricing |
Chosen Donation |
High income: No coupon needed. |
£111 |
Average income: Use coupon code ICHOOSE55 |
£55 |
Low income: Use coupon code IDONATE28 |
£28 |
If you are genuinely unwaged and cannot make a financial contribution for this course, please contact us to discuss a conscious business solution. 🙂
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