The "Laughing Photographs" method! Everyone must read this urgently! By capturing positive emotions on your own portrait and looking at it regularly, you can not only improve your mood but also relieve hypertension, nervous, skin and other conditions.
The "Laughing Photographs" method! Everyone must read this urgently!
Author – Natalya Lopatina
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I started by reviewing my own photographs in which I had been captured laughing.
After choosing the best one, I enlarged it and hung it on the wall at home so that it would catch my eye more often.
I would glance at it with curiosity. There was a feeling that, slowly but surely, a new perception of myself was seeping into my consciousness, or rather into my subconscious: so this is the kind of person I am – cheerful and full of life!
First I noticed a decrease in my own anxiety and accepted such a state as something natural.
This was apparently helped by the emotions captured in the photograph.
But when slightly more than three months had passed, I unexpectedly noticed that all the symptoms of my hereditary hypertension had completely disappeared.
Such a result did not leave me indifferent. I remember walking up to my photo portrait then and, smiling at it, mentally saying: "So this is who I am – cheerful, full of life, and now healthy as well!"
I thought to myself: "If such a good result was achieved in three months, what will happen in a year or two?"
Now it can confidently be said that positive emotions captured on your own photograph have become firmly embedded in your consciousness, and this in turn has a colossal effect on the entire body.
How could I not share such a discovery with those around me?
And I did share it.
First of all with those whom I counsel as a psychologist. I advised them to follow my example.
Some time passed, and people began to report that, beyond solving psychological issues, my patients were also recovering more quickly from various accompanying ailments: nervous, skin, ulcerative and, of course, hypertensive conditions, just as I had.
In their consciousness there had previously been no image of themselves at all. But now it had suddenly appeared – and such an attractive one at that.
Lydia Mikhailovna, a teacher by profession, recounts: "Now next to my portrait there already hang the 'laughing' photographs of my husband, our three children and two grandchildren. You cannot even imagine the staggering effect it produces when you see so many smiling family faces all at once.
We now expect only a friendly attitude from one another. And so it is – we are always joking. What illnesses could there be in such an atmosphere?! I hurried to share my experience with the parents of my pupils at school as well.
Everyone became interested and we even formed something like a real secret society. As of today, cruelty and callousness in the relationships between the children in the class have entirely disappeared. For me this is the main result.
Here is just one line from a composition by one of my pupils: 'Everyone likes my smile, and I no longer need to draw attention to myself through rudeness. And I used to be a real hooligan.'"
Even the way the 'smiling' photos were arranged turned out to be important.
For families in which the children lack the attention of the adults and feel insecure, it was recommended to place the portraits in a single line: the photos of the parents on the sides and the photos of the children in the middle. The parents' portraits were made in 20 x 30 cm format and the children's in 15 x 20 cm. Each one bore the inscription: "One for all and all for one."
I was told only a month later that arguments in the families had ceased. In such a short period, the perception of oneself and of the family as a whole had changed: everyone began to feel like a tightly-knit team.
I recently received a very interesting letter from Samara from Sergey, the owner of a bakery. He writes that he had long suffered from cardiovascular disease (I omit a detailed description of his illness) and was in a pre-infarction state.
"I always had difficulties with visual memory," he writes, "but I so wanted to repair my health... I would often look at my photo and then close my eyes and try to picture myself. That is how I memorised myself laughing, and very soon afterwards I recovered.
I am a former architect, so I regarded my 'laughing' photograph as my best project, one I greatly wished to bring to life."
Sergey also persuaded the other workers at the bakery to be photographed and to place their own 'smiling' portraits beside their workstations. For this he invited a photographer to the bakery. "The grown-ups rejoiced over this event like children. They made each other laugh, joked... All the photographs turned out splendidly.
In general, the staff are used to following my example. And now they say that they will always work only in our bakery, that nowhere else will they find such a pleasant working atmosphere. That is wonderful!"
Tamara Ivanovna from Tikhoretsk wrote that her 'train of life' has taken a new course towards longevity. This happened thanks to the magic of her 'laughing' photograph, and she no longer doubts her love of life...
"Illnesses," she writes, "are flaking off me like dried mud from shoes. To 100 years without pain and trouble – that is now my motto!" She also photographed her son. At her request the photo studio added an inscription to her child's photograph: "This is how cheerful and full of life I am."
"I would bring him up to the photo portrait and say: this is where you are real."
Phenomenal changes are now taking place with her son: he has become balanced and self-confident, a leader among his friends and in class. The mother is very pleased with such a result.
It is hard to predict exactly how your own body will respond to your own 'smiling' photograph.
It helped some people endure a difficult pregnancy more easily and give birth to a healthy child. Others, it helped to prevent illness or depression in the face of great troubles. Still others recovered more quickly after a serious injury. One thing is certain: the benefit will undoubtedly be there.
Many say that having such a photograph will soon become as routine as brushing one's teeth in the morning.
Under the influence of 'smiling' portraits, people gradually change their perception of themselves, their behaviour, their relationships with those around them. And as a result of all this, they free themselves from many diseases of a psycho-neurological nature. The most significant achievements have been obtained with the collective use of the method: at work, in families, in school classrooms. I will dwell on one such case, which I consider very important.
In children's groups, the arrangement of photographs of the whole group turned out to be very effective (it is important not to forget anyone).
As a result, in addition to the individual image of 'This is who I am!', a collective one is also formed in the children's consciousness: 'This is who we are!'
This significantly reduces in them the sense of threat supposedly coming from those around them. The children become uninhibited, more open to communication and to learning new things.
Here is what a seventh-grade pupil, who used to come home from school with a headache almost every day, told his parents: "We have stopped being afraid of going up to the board, we answer better, and the teachers now treat us much more kindly..."
He and his classmates, at their parents' initiative, hung photographs in their classroom showing the children captured while laughing.
At the top of the display board they made the inscription: "This is who we really are."
The teachers saw their charges in an entirely new light, and later they too made a similar board, now featuring their own marvellous photos. It is not hard to guess how the lives of both the children and the adults changed after that.
All diseases come from nerves. The influence of negative emotions on health.
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