The Smile Exercise is fun to do, and it's easy when you use the Smile Doll!
In this exercise you learn to create your reality with "Smile Anchors"
Modern neurological research has developed the term "Anchor" to signify anything that brings you an instant sensation of thoughts and feelings.
Did you ever hear a song and instantaneously travel back through time to some wonderful experience, such as your first love? Or can you remember what it feels like when you're looking through your rearview mirror and you see a flashing red light 10 feet behind you! These are "anchors." An anchor can be a word, a touch, a sound or an object. It can be something we feel, see, hear, taste or smell. Anchors have the power to instantaneously create feelings and sensations.
Remember Pavlov's dogs salivating when they heard a bell ringing, announcing that food was coming? That's how anchors work with us humans. They set up strong expectations within our entire being.
Anchors are everywhere, especially in the world of advertising. Even my dog gets hungry when she sees the golden arches, and she's a vegetarian! When you are in an intense emotional state and a specific stimulus is provided at the peak of that state, the stimulus and emotional state become neurologically linked. Then, whenever the stimulus is once again triggered, the intense emotional state will automatically occur. Putting it simply, it's the way we're wired.
Now let's learn how to create feelings of HAPPINESS!
- The first thing you do is think of a past experience where you felt incredibly HAPPY. It can be any time in your past, whether you were two years old or twenty or just yesterday. What is important here is simply that you are feeling the experience.
- Now close your eyes and actually bring yourself back into that experience. See what you were seeing then, hear what you were hearing then, and FEEL the feelings you were feeling.
- Now, build up the feelings of that time until you reach a peak where it feels so good that you think y ou are going to explode! At this point, open your eyes and look right into that big smile of your SMILE DOLL for the count of four. You have just created an anchor. Contratulations!
- Now you simply repeat that process about ten times, beginning with closing your eyes. This is called "stacking anchors." To test your anchor, simply close your eyes then open them and look at your SMILE DOLL, and at that moment the feeling of happiness should fill your whole body! Do the stacking of 10 a few times a day.
- Remember, with any exercise like this, practice moves you from effort to expert. It's sort of like going to the gym and doing a set of repetitions ten times each in order to build your muscles. The only difference is that here you are changing your life!
Now, whenever you want to expereince the feelings of HAPPINESS you have anchored, all you need to do is look at your SMILE DOLL and voila!
ENJOY!
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