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1.2 Choose your image resource
Definition: The image resource is a mental image that is to say an
image that you see in your mind when your eyes are closed.

This image resource is the memory of a pleasant situation that you
have really experienced in the past.
With this banal memory, you have a work to do for transforming it
in a strong mental image which is able to make you relive the
feelings that you had experienced in the past.
For example, when you have had a painful experience and when you
remember it, you feel again, in a weaker way, the feelings that you
had already experienced :you shudder again retrospectively, you go
pale.
On the contrary, thanks to your image resource, you should
remember your past pleasant feelings and try to live them again as
intensely as possible. I mean that your first task is to choose among

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