The English Sisters - Stress Free in Three Minutes

Title Page STRESS FREE IN THREE MINUTES by The English Sisters Publisher Information First edition published in 2013 Copyright 2013 The English Sisters Digital conversion by Andrews UK Limited www.andrewsuk.com The right of The English Sisters to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998. All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without express prior written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted except with express prior written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956 (as amended). Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damage. All characters appearing in this work are fictitious or used fictitiously.

Except for certain historical personages, apopony resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and not of MX Publishing. Published in the UK by MX Publishing 335 Princess Park Manor, Royal Drive, London, N11 3GX www.mxpublishing.co.uk Cover design by www.staunch.com Dedication To our loving belated parents, Antonia Caro and Janos Zuggo, who loved us unconditionally, allowing our creativity to flow. To our darling husbands, John and Giorgio, who love and support us. To our wonderful children, Jasmine, Nicholas, Jonathan and Christopher, whom we love unconditionally. To our pet dogs, Teddy and Cleo, who always make us smile.

To our dear readers and all of you who have inspired us to write this book. We send our love out to you and hope that you will feel it as you read Stress Free in Three Minutes. Introduction How to use this book: Before reading each short story, we suggest you begin by taking a deep breath. Close your eyes for a moment and then inhale for a count of six and exhale for a count of six. You were not born stressed. You were born serene and carefree - crying only to have your primary needs met.

This is your natural state of mind. Reading this book will allow you to access a stress-free state of mind. Each hypnotherapeutic short story is designed to take you from a more conscious state of mind - where learned behaviours, worries, critical reasoning, insecurities, and anxiety can reside - to an alpha state of mind where your breathing deepens and your blood pressure lowers, connecting you to your real you. Alpha brain waves are present in deep relaxation and hypnotic trance. You will begin to feel relaxed in a natural and comfortable way. Your natural instincts will be heightened, along with your visualisation, memory, learning and concentration.

This will have beneficial repercussions for you in all spheres of your life. Your health and wellbeing will improve. Your relationships will flourish. You will know if you are in the right job or career, and, if not, have the oomph and energy to make the necessary changes. You will automatically know what to do, because your mind interprets each of the hypnotherapeutic short stories in its own unique way. You will find yourself allocating your own personal message to each story, which, in turn, will give you food for stress-free thought throughout the day.

At night, your unconscious mind will elaborate each short story for you, adjusting any incongruities between your conscious mind and your unconscious mind creating an on-going sense of wellbeing. Stress free in three minutes! They say it takes three minutes to boil an egg. Some like their egg a little softer than others and some like the yolk to be a little harder its all a question of taste. Egg timers are rather fascinating with the sand that drips down grain by grain. Imagine your egg timer for a moment, the one you have now or the one your loved ones had a while ago. Start imagining each grain of sand drop down one by one.

Count to six as you take a deep breath in and back from six to one as you release. With each grain of sand and each minute that passes, your heart relaxes, your breathing slows down, as you take another deep breath now. As you read each hypnotic short story, simply watch and see how easy it is for you to relax and feel comfortable. Now as you drift away on each grain of sand and allow your thoughts to flow, its easy for that sense of comfort and wellbeing to enter you. Your breathing slows down and gets deeper and more relaxed and your eyes begin to feel heavy and want to close to sort things out in your mind so that you can live stress-free in only three minutes. A Little Break As you look out of your window today, notice something you may not have noticed yesterday.

A twig, a leaf, or a passing cloud can all allow you to enter into a comfortable state of mind the right state of mind, needed for you to take a little break. Focus on what you have chosen to see, until your vision begins to blur just a little, and then, if you wish, you can close your eyes, and become aware that it is in these little moments between moments that your mind grows and evolves, allowing you to change the way you see many of the events that have occurred or will occur in your life, because its all about what you focus on. No two people will ever see the same thing in the same way, so why not enjoy what you can see in your very own special way? The Banana Mary looked at the banana it was a handy and healthy snack. She took it out of her bag in the office at eleven oclock, and peeled it with care as she didnt care for bruises. It smelled ripe and sweet; she only noticed that because Fred had pointed that out to her a couple of days ago. She took her first bite and savoured the sweet smell something she didnt often do as she was used to eating rather quickly.

However, today was different because that sweet smell stuck in her mind and she realised that all was not as it seemed. The banana felt sticky and it reminded her of sticky toffee and toffee apples she didnt know why, but she did know that her mind had begun to wander, to thinking about banana plants and plantations, all whilst in the office on her coffee break. Fred startled her when he said, Hey! as she finished her banana and was about to throw the skin away. May I keep that? he said with glee. Whatever for? she thought. and gave him a look of curiosity and slight disgust.

Oh, you dont know why? he said, with a cheeky grin as he looked down, and then went on to explain: My leather shoes are dusty and dirty; this banana skin will polish them up fine. Its something I learnt from a fine woman once upon a time. The Tree The tree was not particularly tall and not particularly small. It appeared to be an ordinary tree, that lived in an ordinary wood. The only difference was that the tree had a dream a dream deep-rooted, down inside. The tree wanted to grow tall enough to be able to touch the sky with its branches.

The other trees in the woods would often tell the tree that some things are not meant to be, yet the tree carried on growing, and as it reached different heights, it would enjoy a different view. Soon it had reached the height of the tallest tree in the woods, and once again it enjoyed a different view. The other trees would warn the tree of the many dangers of growing so tall: Be careful: the wind may break you in a storm, they would say, swaying their branches. Some things are not meant to be, they would whisper in the wind. However, the tree kept ever so flexible, and when the storm passed over the woods, the tree swayed and bent, but did not break. Instead, it carried on growing and climbed higher and higher until all the trees in the woods, looked like mere specks of colour down below, and there, once again, the tree enjoyed a different view, yet it did not stop growing, for the tree had a dream.

It stretched its branches out high so high that very soon they were covered by clouds. The tree could not see, and it feared it had grown too high. The memories of what the other trees had whispered in the wind troubled its insides, yet the tree had seen many different views by now, and so it did what it had always done and what had become a natural way of life, and continued to grow. The tree outgrew the clouds until its branches were free once more. Above the clouds, the sky was blue the sun was bright, and the tree stretched out in pure delight, aiming once more for the highest of heights - the sky. Dust Often invisible to the eye, dust settles layer upon layer and lies, weightless and ever so fine.