Now we’ve worked on your internal dialogue, let’s move on to the pictures you play inside your head. Go back to what your mother taught you': TV presenter Susannah Constantine on the six money-saving hacks that helped her cut energy use on laundry by a THIRD! I asked my friends to clean my house instead of throwing me a baby shower - every mother-to-be should have a nesting party!

It doesn’t matter, because the more you describe your internal world, the richer it becomes and the deeper the trance experience will become. When we allow ourselves a pause in concentration — even if it’s only for a few minutes — and let our bodies truly relax, our thinking becomes sharper and, crucially, we feel better within ourselves. It touches on an emerging area of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) – looking at how psychology and neurology affects our health. The White Witch, X-Men's Storm, Pennywise and The Mask: As stars get into the Halloween spirit - can YOU guess who's behind the costume? Others find that changing the location and tone of the voice inside their head or turning it down can reduce anxiety and increase confidence.

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There is a concept known as ‘Busyholism’, which is where people feel the need to work all the time, often because they are addicted to the buzz they get from chemicals produced as a stress response.So, how do you dampen those anxious thoughts and feelings, so your dominant state keeps you in a more positive, relaxed and mentally open place? It’s so important that whenever you look into the future, you envisage yourself at the heart of whatever you picture and that you appear healthy and happy. It involves a distinctive self-soothing motion with crossed arms, gently but noticeably stroking from shoulders to elbows. This gets you to connect with a ‘feelgood’ picture inside your mind’s eye and then amplifies it over and over again so you boost positive feelings exponentially. From this place, imagine how you would look if you were twice as relaxed again as you are right now.

Instead, we are conditioned to associate letting our thoughts wander with being lazy and unproductive. In yesterday’s Daily Mail, we looked at exercises that provide instant relief from stress and anxiety. Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece is spotted looking glum amid split from 'Britain's most eligible bachelor'. The state of mind you are in when sitting at your computer is different to when you are relaxing in the bath.

When they feel their focus slipping, they force themselves to override their mental tiredness and work even harder. I’d like you to rate your stress on a scale of one to ten, with one being the lowest and ten being the highest.