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The Best Malware

Removal For Your Mind

by Dr Karen Perkins

Executive Coach, KPI & NLP Expert

Has your computer ever gotten a virus or malware? What really happened there? You probably opened a video

or downloaded an email that seemed innocuous enough, and then the virus began its evil work. It started

digging deeper and deeper into your computer, corrupting files, reconfiguring your memory, and essentially

interrupting all the normal processes you use to work. Eventually, the “blue screen of death” appeared and

your computer crashed completely.
This is exactly what happens to sti ll operati ng with that beta Recognize
your mind when an errant thought version, it could be sensiti ve and Acknowledge
comes in and you suppress it. It full of bugs. Feel it fully
works its way deeper and deeper, Process

corrupting thoughts, reconfiguring And... as life adds stressors, it’s Use or Diff use

your memory, and essentially like opening that video someone

disrupting your ability to focus sent from Facebook. The thought First, recognize the emoti on;

on anything but THAT thought. worm gets in, the system gets second, acknowledge it; third, feel
This then triggers your internal overwhelmed in trying to process it fully.
protection system and sets off all too much, and we’re likely to crash

the alarms, causing your system to and simply shut down in order to Feeling it fully is the most vital
crash. protect ourselves. step. Without taking this step, you
cannot move forward.
Have you ever been there? In So, what do we do when our mind
that place where you were so and emoti ons crash? We can’t just You might be saying, “But I don’t

consumed by an emotion - anger, call the Geek Squad…or can we? want to feel angry, but I don’t want
anxiety, excitement that you to feel sad.” But, you must feel it.

couldn’t think beyond it? I want Actually, we can. You are entitled to it. You deserve
you to know, you’re not alone. it. Feel it fully.
While it’s not your fault, it is your But fi rst, I’m going to have you
responsibility to change it. run some diagnostics on your That does not mean that you have

own. The process for running your the right to wallow in it. It doesn’t
We were programmed at a very mind’s anti -malware is actually mean you should get stuck in it. It
young age by our parents, our easier than for a computer. means you recognize it and you
siblings, and society to react in a allow yourself to feel it.
certain way to different stimuli. It’s I use the mnemonic device RAFPU

like our own personal operating to remember the steps:
system. And quite frankly, if you’re
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