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Did you calm yourself and think positively … knowing that stress and worry are useless and you have
no power to help you? When you’re stressed out, it’s a good time for you to visualize a peaceful place.
Where is your favorite spot? In nature? By the ocean side or along a small creek, or in the forest?

Visualize your “peaceful place” in every detail. The sounds you hear, and the smell of the air.
Watching the movement of the water or trees. Is it warm outside, with a cool breeze? Take another
deep breath. Relax, and be quiet while you enjoy being in your “peaceful place”. This “peaceful place”
is available to you anytime you want to go there! So, go there regularly and RELAX. Enjoy its beauty
and peace.

See how this has made you feel refreshed! Continue to let your body be free of tension and anxiety a
while longer; let it be AT EASE. To be “at ease” is to prevent Dis-ease. Bring your thoughts to your
breathing. Be at peace with the quiet. Let yourself see how you can be truly relaxed.

Actually, your body is capable of doing incredible things! and you might need it to do incredible
things! So, guess what?! The better you take care of your body, the easier it will be for it to take care
of you!

It needs you and you also need it, which makes you very lucky! Because, as you might realize, your
body has a far greater value and capacity than anything you’ll ever own! Should I repeat that? Your
body has a greater value and capacity than anything you will ever own!!

It can help you do greater things than you even realize! It's continuously healing you and helping you
and you don’t even realize it’s doing what you need! People can’t get a new body if they need one!!
People lose a Great Value by not taking care of their bodies.

In addition, your bodies' only desire is to please you!! Its only desire is to give you whatever you want,
no matter what it is, or how hard it is, or how long it takes! What is the biggest detriment to good
health? Stress! Right! Did you know that too much Stress makes your body sick?

If you know you worry a lot, then it’s time to start using relaxation methods like these. Do this
regularly, and give yourself a well-deserved mental break, so you can release the things that have
you stressed out.

So, let’s say you’ve got a good flow of energy and you have been able to make your “pop-up thoughts”
stop, for a while. Are you ready to examine how you’re FEELING now? Usually, the first thoughts
that come into your mind indicate how you’re feeling! This is often a good indicator of what’s really
going on.

Identify those feelings and your thoughts individually. Are they connected to something that’s
happening? You may feel many different things. Hopefully, much of it is relaxing and joyful. So call
upon your feelings. Say “What am I feeling now?” See what those feelings are, and identify what your
thinking and how they are connected.

You don’t have to “buy into them” or believe them. It’s okay to simply "identify them". Be gentle to
yourself though, as you work through this. Understand, you may have negative feelings, but don’t
act on them. Simply be aware, observe, identify, and supervise them.

Negative or Yin expresses through thoughts. Positive or Yang, expressed through actions. If actions
are the outcome of your thoughts, then you definitely want to guard what you’re thinking and are
stressed out about.

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