To all of you
who have the courage to think outside the box, who have the open-mindedness that guides you to new possibilities, who agree to trust yourselves and take responsibility for your lives, who take the opportunity to heal your emotional wounds, which allows you to experience more Love and to be a beacon of Light for the people around you and the world!
The Little Stick Figures Technique for Emotional Self-Healing
A magical tool! I send billions of thanks to Jacques Martel for creating it. For years, in my training and coaching sessions, with my friends and relatives, I shared the Little Stick Figures Technique. From the dynamic entrepreneur to the overwhelmed mother, from the teenager to the grandfathereveryone has found a light that has helped them. I would need a whole page to list the types of problems that the Little Stick Figures Technique has helped solveremoving conflicts, regaining self-confidence, calming stress, taking a step back to put things into perspective, looking at situations and/or people in a new light, health problems experienced more lightly, and more! Read this book and be positively surprised by the results.
Christine Mige, coach, human resources consultant, and feng shui expert
This simple, accessible, and fast technique holds an important place in my personal and professional life. When used, I immediately feel the relief of no longer wavering, and I let the asking for the best phrase explained in this book take effect. I feel the conscious and unconscious bonds of attachment being pleasantly released. In my practice, I help therapists clean up and improve their professional activity by practicing these techniques daily and offering them to their own clients/patients.
Sarah Bonjour, hypnotherapist and childhood educator
A simple, intuitive, powerful technique. Ive always drawn a heart with lines of light radiating as my symbol. The Little Stick Figures Technique for Emotional Self-Healing teaches us to understand and use visual soul language consciously for healing and transformation.
Julia Paulette Hollenbery, bodyworker, therapist, healer, facilitator, and author of The Healing Power of Pleasure
Contents
Thanks
Our thanks go to Mr. Jacques Martel, the creator of this technique, for his collaboration in answering all our questions throughout our research and his generosity in permitting us to widely share this priceless information to help in the well-being of the greatest possible number of persons in the world.
Our thanks also go to Mr. Denis Tremblay, Production Manager at ditions ATMA Internationales, for his participation in the visual production and the copyright protection application process for this book and this technique.
We also wish to thank the many persons, therapists, health professionals, collaborators, several of our clients and the general public who wrote to us and shared their comments, their observations and their questions after using this technique. All of that precious information has made it possible to produce this book, which is intended to be a complete reference document.
Lucie Bernier and Robert Lenghan
The Birth of This Book
Every manuscript has its history. This one began in Qubec, Canada, on a morning of April 2015 at 5:55 a.m. I suddenly woke up and received the message that the Little Stick Figures must become known world-wide. I immediately took a pencil and paper and began to write automatically what I was receiving as prime information about the broad outlines of this technique, which had been explained by Mr. Jacques Martel in two videos, already viewed by more than 500 000 persons on the Internet.
This technique was created in 1993 by Mr. Martel who is also the author of the best-seller The Complete Dictionary of Ailments and Diseases, read by more than TWO MILLION readers; a book that was produced with the collaboration of Ms. Lucie Bernier.
The message received was very clear: this technique must also become the subject of a book in paper version. Immediately, the scenario of the book took form, the subjects, the table of contents and the broad outlines of the messages to be conveyed to the general public in a simple and widely accessible form. The purpose of this reference book is to help the greatest possible number of persons.
The next morning around the same time, I woke up suddenly again, and this time, it was the content of the cover page that stood out more clearly, with the picture of the person best suited to collaborate as the co-author in writing this book, namely Ms. Lucie Bernier.
That is how this book came to be!
Robert Lenghan
Consultant in Change Management and Human Resources Qubec, Canada
Introduction
A great number of people are seeking the means to improve their everyday lives. In fact, I (which means each one of us) experience situations in my everyday life that are sometimes conflicted or in disharmony. Of course, there are many professionals who can help me (therapists, psychologists, social workers, physicians, etc.), but what about those actions I can do myself at home, at work or elsewhere and that will really help me? This is where the Little Stick Figures Technique comes into play.
This technique, which takes only a few minutes to do, enables me to free myself from my dependencies, my fears and my conscious or unconscious attachments. It enables me to have more detachment toward a person or a situation and to develop more unconditional love.
Using it on a regular basis enables me to effect positive changes in my life. These changes result from my decision and my intention to change and from the fact that I spell out this intention in writing. In this way I act on my conscious as well as on my subconscious. It thus becomes a powerful tool for transformation.
By showing my openness when I do the exercise, I set off a whole process where my energy level is raised, where I manifest a raising of consciousness and make room for changes. A little like when the wind blows on clouds and they dissipate and make room for the blue sky and the sun that can better show the light through its rays. The sun was shining before, but was hidden by the clouds that represent my fears, my doubts, my insecurities, my dependencies, my attachments, my judgments about myself and others.
The technique allows me to initiate the inner wind of change. The more detached I am and confident in the results, the more capable I am of accurately identifying those results (changes) in my Life. There follows a lightness, a well-being that is sometimes difficult to account for with my mind. I thus reclaim full power over my life!
What is wonderful is that, even if I dont consciously know exactly what I need to work on or integrate in relation to another person, it works! Because of my intention, which is to change, and the letting go that I am ready to accept regarding the person or situation and the results, I assert, I materialize, I crystallize my intention in practical reality. And by using the