Breathe and relax

Before you begin, take a few deep breaths to relax every part of your body and close your eyes.

1. Start by relaxing the muscles in your forehead, eyes, and jaw and focus on your breathing.
2. Also relax your neck and shoulders. Once relaxed, drop your shoulders as low as possible while keeping your arms relaxed along your body.
3. Next, imagine a feeling of warmth from your head to your fingertips, before moving from your heart to your toes.
4. Finally, take another deep breath and slowly exhale as you relax your chest, belly, thighs, knees, legs and feet.

Clear your mind

The key element of this exercise is to completely clear your mind of all thoughts.

To achieve this, we suggest 2 solutions:

1. The first is to visualize yourself at the edge of a lake or in a canoe on calm water with just the blue sky above your head.
2. The second is similar, but this time imagine yourself in a dark room, safely ensconced in a black velvet hammock.

Tip: If you lose your focus, repeat the phrase "Don't think, don't think, don't think" several times for 10 seconds.

To make this technique work, practice it every night for six weeks.  

There you go, this exercise has no more secrets for you!

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