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2.7 Lesson summary The knowledge of your best sensory method will help you for building your image resource: Your 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. You will use your image resource in many situations and first for relaxing and for cleaning your subconscious from all the negative beliefs which are coming from your past. Once, you have cleaned your past, you can re-write your personal history eliminating all the negative periods and experiences. Rather than pulling yourself back, this history will push you forward. 2.8 Do It Yourself Now: You have a lot of things to do: 1. First, you must write your autobiography. We recommend you to reread your bio the day after a good night. Do the job in one shot during a week-end when you are not disturbed. Look at your old photos. They could ease the remembrance process. Count about 5 hours of full work for this task 2. Make the exercise about the sensory preference and then, choose your image resource. In writing your bio, you have certainly isolated an event that you would like to relive. Describe completely your image resource. If possible, paint it. Count at least 5 hours for the choice of your image resource. 3. Then, begin the relaxation exercises as described above: Each day, practice 4 exercises during 15 days. As each exercise could last 15 73