This is a fantastic tip for the situations when you’re stressed, angry, anxious or upset.
And good thing is it is simple, fast and anyone can learn and do it in a matter of seconds.
Try holding your frontal eminences with your hands. These are bumps on your forehead that many people hold instinctively when they’re upset. If you are not able to find it then try to raise your eyebrows while looking in the mirror. You will see some folds on your forehead. Touch the last fold in the middle with the finger.
While doing this, pay attention to the left and right side bone bumps on either side of your finger. This is what we are talking about.
While you hold these points think about the stressful event. You may not be able to think about it or feel the stress. Or you may feel the stress lessening.
As you hold the points and think about/imagine the event, you will probably start to feel calmer – you may even find that you start to feel a little bored thinking about this scenario that previously stressed or angered you so much.
You can use it for small things as well as for more traumatic events too.
If the thoughts/images are too overwhelming initially, imagine you are watching it on a TV – you can always switch it off if becomes too stressful. Change the color of pictures to black and white, make the screen size very very small to the size of a small coin. You may run the movie backwards also.
Why does it work?
These particular points on the forehead, known as frontal eminences, are reflex points with connections to the central meridian (involved with the brain), the stomach meridian (that is why you feel sick in the stomach when you’re anxious or angry), and the bladder meridian (this explains repeated urge to use washroom when you are anxious).
I recently explained this self-help technique to a business colleague – a keen mountain biker who’d had a serious bike accident at 30 miles an hour and had broken his skull and collar bone. He had recovered from the accident physically but was finding it difficult to cope with the situation psychologically. Practically he had developed a phobia for the sport.
This is what he wrote to me later:
“I don’t know how to thank you enough for the technique you described to me over the phone the other day, it helped me enormously!”
After one week he texted me this message:
“Your tip worked wonderful last night. I went out (in the pitch black with my Light&Motion ‘daylighter’ light) and did some serious single-tracking and downhilling! I never thought I’d be able to do that again – ever! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was great!!!!!!!”
It may be hard to believe that something this simple could be effective in removing anxiety and stress, but try it and see.
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