Discover the 6 secrets to calming your mind and body. Living in this hectic world is a daily balancing act. It requires skills to better cope and maintain a healthy mindset. If you want to live more in the present, free of stress and emotional pain and of course to enjoy life as much as you can this presentation will show you how.

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Calm the Mind
Calm the Body
By Avinoam Lerner

2. What is Stress?
• Stress is the sum of our
physiological and
psychological responses to
changes in our environment.
• Stress is a normal part of life and can be
helpful in many ways. Managed correctly,
stress can be a motivator, a reason to take
action and achieve.

3. When Stress become a Problem?
• Stress becomes a problem when we find
that we are in a persistent state of
agitation, or when it turns into feelings of
anger or rage.
• Seek professional help if:
1. There is no break between stressors.
2. Stress affects your ability to perform.
3. Stress makes you feel fatigue and hopeless.

4. Why do we stress out?
• There are two reasons why we get stressed:
1. We perceive a situation to be
dangerous, difficult, or painful.
2. We don't believe we have the
resources to cope.
• Stress affects different people in different ways:
irritability, inability to concentrate, feeling excessively
tired and even having trouble sleeping.

5. The Problem with Perception:
• When we see or face something for
the first time, our mind will use our
collective knowledge in order to
process what it is viewing.
• We experience the present
through the past

6. The Problem with Perception (2):
• Perception is our understanding of the
truth, limited by our own experience
and familiarities. As situations arise,
our perception defines our response.
• It’s not the situation in itself causing us
stress but rather our personal
interpretation. In other words, we
cause our own stress.

7. All it takes is a
Shift in Focus.

8. The Power of Belief:
• Beliefs create our own personal reality.
• If perception is how we take outside
information and process it, our beliefs
system is the process itself.
• It is impossible for us to act in a way
which is inconsistent with our beliefs.

9. The Power of Belief (2):
• In situations deemed stressful, we
believe that we do not have skills and
resources to cope with a situation.
• If we believed otherwise, it wouldn’t
be stressful.

10. The Mind-Body Phenomenon:
• Thoughts are tied to physical experiences.
Different types of thoughts initiate
corresponding physical reactions.
• We can feel stress simply by thinking of
situations from the past, or anticipating
the future.

11. The
Mind-Body
Model

12. The
Mind-Body
Model

13. What
Must
be
Done!

14. What is a Well-Being?
• Well-being is a term describing a state of
harmony where all levels of life are in balance.
We are healthy, happy and prospers.
• See yourself and feel yourself
living and breathing the reality
you wish you enjoy.
• Do not force, calmly imagine.

15. Secret # 1 to Well-Being:
• Breath and Relax: Set a daily goal to
practice relaxation. Use your imagination,
listen to a Guided Meditation audio and
give yourself the gift of comfort.
• A deep breath forces the mind to focus on
physical sensations. This interrupts your
thought process and gives you back control.

16. Secret # 2 to Well-Being:
• Change your internal dialog, your Self-Talk:
Remember to be your own best friend, say
compassionate, kind and uplifting things to
yourself.
• We each have the capacity to calm
ourselves and cheer ourselves up. Take
responsibility for your state of mind. Don’t
let a stressful moment be unchanged.

17. Secret # 3 to Well-Being:
• Ignore current results: because the facts
are always changing.
• Emotionalize your vision: breath life into it
and let your imagination take you there.
• Become the actor: carry yourself and
project yourself in a manner that reflects
your new mental vision.

18. Secret # 4 to Well-Being:
• Redirect your focus:
Constantly thinking of the wrongdoing or
playing the “negative” over and over again
in your mind results in emotional suffering.
Shift your focus back to your vision!
• Let Go:
Many things seem much more important
than they really are.

19. Secret # 5 to Well-Being:
• Contemplate Forgiveness:
Forgiving does not mean condoning. Holding
a grudge or resenting someone means that
you do most of the suffering.
The key to a balanced mind is forgiveness.
When you forgive you make a choice to live
free of judgment, criticism and self-inflicted
emotional pain.

20. Secret # 6 to Well-Being:
Laugh:
• More situations than you think warrant
laughter. Looking for the humor or asking
yourself, “what is funny about this?” will
release great tension.
• You can’t laugh and be stressed out at the
same time. It is physically impossible.

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