Let's talk about how to use this course. I first of all suggest that you get a book so that you can write notes and write your feelings and perhaps even you might decide to do your exercises in the book as well. That way, it's easy for you to return to the ideas and concepts that you want to take on board and return to later. So we've put together a whole mixture of different mediums for you, video slides, PDFs, and exercises. Some of it will be more relevant to you than others bits of it, you'll need to revisit and there will be parts that you want to download and print off. As I mentioned before, if you've got a book or a journal that you can write down some of the ideas It will be really useful for you to return to those in the moments when you need to most.

So, I would suggest that you find an afternoon to sit down and go through the whole course. And then go back and start again. Stop when you reach the first exercise that second time and really take time to begin putting effort into these exercises. It's really important that you do these exercises. And it's important that you do them enough so that you change the way that you're thinking about things. This is how you will discover more about you.

And this is how you will discover more about how you want to be and how you will Want to react? in doing the exercises, you'll be spending time discovering yourself. And some of them won't be easy for you. Sometimes it's really difficult to come out of your comfort zone and look at yourself in a new way, in a different way, or consider yourself reacting in a different way. We don't often take enough time to find out about ourselves to talk about ourselves, to talk to ourselves. So this is your opportunity.

This is time for you. Time to learn about you and time to learn. So download the exercise pack and print it out. If you haven't got a printer Then copy out the forms and create your own and your journal. Do this before you go any further so that you can easily stop to do the exercises when they come up. You need to find a safe, quiet place.

Many of the exercises are about sitting and thinking. So you need a safe place where it's okay for you to think about things that trigger your anxiety. You'll need a quiet place preferably one where you won't be interrupted. Of course interruption is usually one of those things that makes us more stressed. So if you are interrupted, it is important to learn, okay, it doesn't matter. I can come back to this later.

We're not in a rush. There's plenty of time to redo this part. I've put here if if your only chance is in the bath, you'll need to print out the details of the exercises and take it with you to read. I remember when my children were very young, my bath time was by time that I could get a few minutes, peace and quiet. You need to practice the exercises often and you need to keep going with them and doing them every day until it becomes natural. You need to really persevere until you can do them in your sleep.

And for those of you who have difficulty sleeping, you will be doing them to help you get to sleep. So the more you do them, the more they become subconscious ease easily lead to habits and therefore when you get to a stress situation, it'll be much easier for you to recall how to do them. If you've only done them once or twice, it just won't happen. You need to be doing them 20 times. Practice makes perfect. In fact, you can't do these enough the exercises, we need to keep going until they're second nature for you.

Believe in yourself, because you can do this. With practice, it'll become easy. Coming out of your comfort zone and going into the new stress free you