Adapted from the Essential Transformation exercise in NLP created by Andreas (1). In moments of crisis, this exercise can be done several times a day; it is very healing.

Use this exercise with persistent, repetitive, or particularly limiting discomfort, such as anxiety, guilt, or undefined fear.

Locate where the discomfort is in your body, its shape, and how far it extends. Greet it, thank it for being here because you know it serves your life.

1. Partial Objectives:

– Ask your guide: Why this discomfort? After two or three seconds, you’ll have an answer. Accept it literally. It can be something concrete or a metaphor.

– Now imagine you’ve achieved this objective. (Three seconds.) Ask your guide again: What is the next objective this discomfort has for me? Repeat the process until you feel you have reached the ultimate goal of the discomfort.

2. Ultimate Objective: Essential

Well-being:

– Once you feel you’ve reached the ultimate purpose of the discomfort, which is a profoundly different sensation of well-being, joy, trust, strength, etc., expand this feeling throughout your body.

– Thank the discomfort for being in the service of this well-being. This well-being is part of your essence, your way of being and existing in the world.

– Fill the space where the discomfort was with this new sensation. Some unpleasant feelings may not disappear entirely.

3. Trauma Separating from Essential Well-being:

– Ask this well-being: How old are you? Take the smallest number that comes to mind as the age you lost this well-being.

– Without thinking, request your guide to take you to that moment in your childhood. In three seconds, you’ll be facing a conflict you couldn’t integrate at that time. Without knowing what it was about, say: “Please give me all the resources I need right now to overcome this challenge with my well-being intact! I am one with my well-being, and I grow with it until today.”

– In a few seconds, feel that you have returned to the present.

4. Transformation of Partial Objectives:

– Gratefully look at your essential well-being and say to each partial objective: “Fill yourself now with my essential adult well-being until you transform.” After a few seconds, you will feel that the partial objective has transformed.

– Repeat this process with the previous objective until you reach the original discomfort.

5. Immerse in Essential Well-being:

– Now look at what remains of the original discomfort and fill it with your essential adult wellbeing. Notice that now everything has transformed. If any part of the discomfort remains or new discomfort arises during the exercise, start the exercise again. The healing will be even more powerful.

– Expand this new sensation throughout your body and beyond. If possible, stay still for a few minutes in silence, deeply enjoying this new state.