The Reverse Emotional Scenario (colloquially known as the “Emotion Washing Machine”) is an applied neuroscience tool that requires between 3 and 5 minutes of daily practice. This simple routine makes it possible, when falling asleep, to “cleanse” the stress, the tensions and to evacuate the negative emotions accumulated during the day.
Every time you experience a negative emotion in your day and you don’t take the time to integrate it into your unconscious in a positive way, she is in danger of encysting (by stealing part of your vital energy).
Why integrate the negative emotions of everyday life?
All emotion is an energy of life that is specific to us; the encystment of negative emotions deprives us of part of our body’s potential to regenerate. This is called the body medicine. It is therefore necessary in the first instance to stop filling the space with negative emotions “stealing” energy every day.
the reverse emotional scenario is an easy to use tool. You must practice it for a period of three weeks to perceive all the benefits.
How it works ?
When you go to bed at night, just before falling asleep in the dark, you will close your eyes. From this moment when you are falling asleep, display a smile of fullness and make it shine throughout your body.
From there, you will go up the highlights of your day in reverse. Here’s what it can do:
- I’m in my bed
- I just went to bed
- I took a shower
- I watched a show on TV
- I had a conversation with my husband
- I ate with my children
- I drove home from work
- I attended a meeting at the office
- Etc.
You go up thus the film of your day until the moment when you opened your eyes, in the morning in your bed.
With a little practice, this reverse scenario will only take you a few minutes, but it will give you fantastic results noticeable from the end of the first week.
For this, you will focus kindly on the events (positive or negative) which seem important to you, (and therefore not necessarily the showers, meals or car journeys which were mentioned in the example… and which you can neglect from the 3ᵉ day of training).
Objective: to evacuate negative emotions
It is rather a question of stopping on the events really remarkable emotionally of your day:
- I met a friend who is dear to me
- I met someone I hate
- I hugged my children
- I discussed a vacation plan with my partner
- I had an unpleasant “fight” with a colleague
- I saw something beautiful
- Etc.
You must unroll the film of your day by taking a real step back: as if you were a spectator or spectator of what you have experienced. With this voluntary distancing, you will observe your emotion but you no longer live it.
If an emotion is negative, it is probably because you had an unfortunate action; you made a mistake for example… If it is about something negative (anger, nervousness…) that you expressed towards another personyou will associate a very simple key phrase: “I will do better next time.”
If it is a question of evacuating negative emotions against youlike a reproach you were made for example, you will use another key phrase: “I won’t take it so personally next time.”
As you have voluntarily installed some distance (with more awareness and maturity), you let this negative event slip into your unconscious by having assumed it. You may not have “digested” it but at least, he’s not going to encyst and it will not “rob” you of some of your vital energy.
If it’s something positivelike a conversation with a friend you haven’t seen in a long time, rejoice and use the simple phrase: “Thank you life.”
How to create a virtuous emotional circle?
When you wake up, your first instinct in life should be to smile. You impose on your face a muscular work which will have an impact on the neuro-cerebral level. You’re going to let that feeling and those “smile hormones” flow through your whole body.
At the same time as you smile, you pronounce a rhythmic phrase which belongs to the therapeutic tradition of Dr Coue : “Every day, from every point of view, I am getting better and better!”.
You can repeat it for 3 minutes as a kind of mantra. And you let this sentence slip into your body as you did for the smile.
It is a virtuous circle of positive energies for Full Health. This sets in motion neuro-hormones that will help you live better. More than a health tool, it is a tool for happiness to keep for all your life.
Precision: the reason for which one revisits one’s day in an antichronological way is linked to the neurological need to from the reality of the moment to better unfold the chain of events.
If we left in the morning when we woke up, we would have to “break” the chain that connects us to the present moment when we are trying to fall asleep.
This technique of neuroscience applied produces spectacular results on both quality of sleep and quality of life.
In this webinar, Dr Yann Rougier presents the principle and operation of the Reverse Emotional Scenario to evacuate negative emotions. Watch it right after reading the explanations in this article.
