STD 12 English Unit - 3 - Solution
STD 12 English Unit - 3 - Solution
Ans. : True
2. Stress is obstacle for fresh mind.
Ans. : True
3. Our mental abilities does not mean our capacity to concentrate, to remember new and old
things and to be logical.
Ans. : False
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4. Worry weakens our energy.
5.
Ans. : True
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Ans. : False
6. Over thinking raises our stress.
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Ans. : True
7. Because of stress, we have to provide more time to finish our easy task.
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Ans. : True
8. Over thinking helps us think clearly and take wise decisions.
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Ans. : False
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9. If you cannot concentrate on your work, it may bring stress for you.
Ans. : True
10. Music can’t help to reduce your stress.
Ans. : False
11. Activity of observing fish swimming slowly in a tank reduce our stress.
Ans. : True
12. Our mind, body, and emotions are interlinked.
Ans. : True
13. Meditation can reduce our stress.
Ans. : True
14. Deep breath can’t help us to reduce our stress.
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Ans. : False
15. When we breath, there is microscopic movement of the cranial bones.
Ans. : True
16. 1. No exercise help you manage your stress.
Ans. : False
17. The crown pull does not influence the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in a positive way.
Ans. : False
18. Stress can increase headache and stomach ache.
Ans. : True
19. Deep breath is good to overcome stress.
Ans. : True
20. Less supply of oxygen creates stress.
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Ans. : True
21.
Ans. : False
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Short meditation can’t help reduce your stress.
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22. Everything seems easy and positive when we are suffering from stress.
Ans. : False
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Ans. : True
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24. We can study and take right decision with our physical capacity.
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Ans. : False
25. One's emotions are a counterpart to one's mind.
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Ans. : False
26. Sometimes our emotions bar our mental abilityin examination.
Ans. : True
27. The mental stress can make us take long timeeven in easier tasks.
Ans. : True
28. Some good exercises help us build betterresilience and rebalance oneself.
Ans. : True
29. Concentrate on what is not wrong at present.
Ans. : True
30. One is likely to make mistakes.
Ans. : True
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31. Expect that you are lucky.
Ans. : True
32. Over thinking releases pressure.
Ans. : False
33. Don't have more expectations.
Ans. : True
34. You will start doubting yourself due to overthinking.
Ans. : True
35. You will feel less energetic than actually you are.
Ans. : True
36. You will feel everything going right due tothinking.
Ans. : False
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37. Watch the film as an outside observer.
38.
Ans. : True
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Practice positive thinking only wherever andwhenever it is impossible.
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Ans. : False
39. overHectic life and pessimism cannot make ussuccessful and positive.
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Ans. : True
40. The focus on positive aim will make you thinkmore clearly.
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Ans. : True
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41. The exercise like 'anticipating success' can drive: away the negativity from your mind.
Ans. : True
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Ans. : True
43. One should sit comfortably.
Ans. : True
44. One ward should be selected from the list of 5 words.
Ans. : True
45. That word should symbolise calmness to one.
Ans. : True
46. One should not visualise scene that ties in With the word or builds up image that
illustrates the situation.
Ans. : False
47.
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Some time should be spent in that situation.
Ans. : True
48. Any material can be picked up..
Ans. : True
49. Spend at least 4 minutes exploring the texture the material.
Ans. : False
50. The short supply of mathrmCO2 to brain is the reason stress or being upset.
Ans. : False
51. Deep breathing is good to overcome stress.
Ans. : True
52. The crown pull practice makes the fluid movefreely.
Ans. : True
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53. The mind is emotional, rational part of a human being.
Ans. : False
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* Read the extracts and answer the questions: [44]
Mistakes are OK. Delete the phrase “I can’t" from your vocabulary. It isn’t
constructive and blocks your view of possible solutions.
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Short meditation- 1. Make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Out of the
following choose a word that symbolises ‘calmness’ to you : ‘harmony’,
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Rub both your hands together for a moment to create energy. Place your palms on
top of the other on the area just below your navel. Breathe consciously into your
belly. Making your palms rise every in- breath. Imagine breathing oxygen into your
brain.
60. How many steps are Suggested here ?
61. What should one do to create energy?
Ans. : 1. There are four Steps suggested here.
2. One should rub both the hands together to created energy.
Meditate on your chosen word. Visualize scenes that tie in with the word or build
up mental images that illustrate the word. You can also spend some time
imagining what it would feel like if you experienced harmony or tranquillity inside
yourself. Open your eyes again.
62. How many steps are there in the process ?
63. What should one do first in the meditation ?
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Ans. : 1 . These are three steps in the process.
2. In meditation, one should visualise scene that tie in with word at first.
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Give your brain an oxygen hit. Half the problem with being stressed and unable to
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concentrate properly is that you don’t breathe deeply enough to supply your brain
with sufficient oxygen. When we get stressed, we tend to hold our breath or only
breathe in a shallow way, using only the top part of our lungs. In order to deepen
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your breathing and get oxygen all the way up into the brain again, do the
following exercise for two minutes :
64. What is major problem with being stressed ?
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Ans. : 1. The major problem with being stressed is shallow breathing. It results in
short supply of oxygen to our brain.
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69. How many advantages of crown pull are given here ?
Ans. : 1. The text talks about the advantages of crown pull ?
2. There are four advantages of crown pull given here.
Place both of your hands with your fingers like combs on top of your head so that
your little fingers are touching your hairline at the front. Firmly press down on to
your scalp and pull your fingers away from the midline, combing outwards with
each hand. Now place your hands in the same way higher up on the midline of the
head and repeat the procedure. Now Place hands even further back on your head,
towards the crown, and repeat the procedure.
70. There are three steps of the process here - True/False ?
71. Should the process be repeated ?
Ans. : 1. It is false (There are four steps).
2. Yes it should be repeated.
Mind, emotions and body are all closely interlinked and always work together. It
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helps you distinguish them clearly if you try to understand them separately. Your
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mental capacities are your abilities to concentrate, to take in new information and
to be in a position to think logically. You need your mental capacity in order to
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study, to work, to impose a constructive and workable order on your life, and to
make rational day-to-day decisions.
Questions:
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Ans. : (1) Our mental capacities helps us to concentrate, to take in new information
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(2) We need our mental capacity to study, to work and to impose a constructive
and workable order on our life. if also helps us to make rational day to day
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decisions.
When life becomes too hectic, we can end up feeling mentally tied in knots.
Nothing seems easy and positive. Pessimism sets in and we cannot see a way out
of our current problems. We can open a source of optimism with the technique of
anticipating success.
Questions:
74. What happens when life becomes too hectic ?
75. Which thing shows us the way out of our current problems?
Ans. : (1) When life becomes too hectic, we feel mentally tied in knots.
(2) Only optimism shows us the way out of our current problems.
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in bones in the skull becoming slightiy stuck together so that the fluid cannot
circulate properly.
Questions:
76. What happens when we breathe ?
77. What happens when we are tensed or S’ upset ?
Ans. : (1) When we breathe, there is a microscopic movement in the cranial bones,
which ? in turn allows the cerebrospinal fluid to move freely through the spinal
column and the skull.
(2) When we are tensed or upset and don’t breathe deeply enough, the bones in S
the skull become slightly stuck together preventing the fluid to circulate properly.
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to calm down.
→ Write down all your worries. Putting them on a piece of paper gets them out of
your head.
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→ Get out into nature and walk. Concentrate on what is right now rather than
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what might happen tomorrow.
Questions:
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tomorrow.
Give your brain an oxygen hit. Half the problems with being stressed and unable to
concentrate properly is that you don’t breathe deeply enough to supply your brain
with sufficient oxygen. When we get stressed, we tend to hold our breath or only
breathe in a shallow way. In order to deepen your breathing and get oxygen all the
way up into the brain again, rub both your palms, put them below your navel, feel
your belly rise every in-breath.
Questions :
80. What is the reason of being stressed, according to the writer ?
81. What should we do to get oxygen into the brain?
Ans. : (1) According to the writer, we get stressed and are unable to concentrate
properly is that we don’t breathe deeply enough to supply our brain with sufficient
oxygen.
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(2) To get oxygen into the brain, we should rub both our palms, put them below
the naval and feel our belly rise every in-breath.
The mind is the rational. logical part of you that helps you to make unemotional
choices, to store and information and to order and calculate. It is the cou the
emotions. A good example of the interaction betw and emotions is exam nerves.
Your mental capacity has you retain what you have revised - you know your stuff
but when you enter the exam room and start getting emotion expecting difficulties
and imagining failure, all of a sudden carefully stored information is no longer
available.
Questions : -
82. How is the mind ?
83. How do emotions sometimes fail our mental capacity?
Ans. : (1) According to the writer, our mind is our rational, logical part of human
being. .
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(2) At the time of exam., our mental capacity has retained what we have revised,
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but when the enter the exam room, we start anticipating difficulties and that fear
of imaginary failure makes us forget all the carefully stored information.
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When emotions have taken you over, it becomes nearly impossible to think clearly.
Then it becomes very easy to make unwise decisions or to agree to something
which is not to your advantage. The Screen Exercise shows you how to step was
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and emotionally detach yourself from your current situat that you can see more
clearly what is going on.
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Questions :
84. When happens when emotions take us over?
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Ans. : (1) When emotions take us over, it becomes nearly mpossible to think clearly
and we start taking unwise decisions or to agree to something which is not
advantageous to us.
(2) The Screen Exercise shows us how to step back and emotionally detach
ourselves from our current situation to see the happenings more clearly.
Make sure you don't get all tangled up in considerations about how the situation
will resolve itself. It will look after itself as long as you keep your aim firmly in
mind. If you stay focused on a positive outcome, you can think more clearly and
you will make better decisions, which will eventually lead to the desired results.
Questions :
86. When will the situation resolve itself?
87. What will lead to the desired results ?
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Ans. : (1)f one keep one's aim firmly in mind, the situation will look after itself and
one has not to worry about it.
(2) If one stays focused on a positive outcome, one can think more clearly and
make better decisions, which will eventually lead to the desired results.
Give your brain oxygen hit : Half the problem with being stressed and unable to
concentrate properly is that you don't breathe deeply enough to supply your brain
with sufficient oxygen. When we get stressed, we tend to hold our breath or only
hreathe in a shallow way, using only the top part of our lungs. In order to deepen
your breathing and get oxygen all the way up into the brain again.
Questions :
88. What could be one of the factors for being stressed and not being able to concentrate
properly?
89. What kind of breathing do we have when we are stressed ?
Ans. : (1) One of the factors for being stressed is not breathing deeply enough to
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supply our brain with sufficient Oxygen.
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(2) When we are stressed, we tend to hold our breath or only breathe in a shallow
way, using only the top part of our lungs.
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Place both of your hands with your fingers like combs on top of your head so that
your little fingers are touching your hairline at the front.
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→ Firmly press down on to your scalp and pull your fingers away from the midline,
combing outwards with each hand.
→ Now place your hands in the same way higher up on the midline of the head and
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Ans. : (1) Creative activity like music and dance exercises the right side of the brain.
(2) One can write down all worries on a piece of paper and get them out of his
head.
The mind is the rational, logical part of you that helps you to make unemotional
choices, to store and retrieve information and to order and calculate. It is the
counterpart to the emotions. A good example of the interaction between mind and
emotions is exam nerves. Your mental capacity has helped you retain what you
have revised - you 'know your stuff' but when you enter the exam room and start
getting emotional by expecting difficulties and imagining failure, all of a sudden the
carefully stored information is no longer available.
Questions:
94. What is our mind, according to the writer?
95. How do emotions sometimes fail our mental capacity?
Ans. : Answers: (1) According to the writer, our mind is our rational, logical part
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that helps us to make unemotional choices, to store and retrieve information and
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to order to calculate.
(2) At the time of exam., our mental capacity has retained what we have revised,
but when the enter the exam room, we start anticipating difficulties and that fear
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of imaginary failure makes us forget all the carefully stored information.
Half the problem with being stressed and unable to concentrate properly is that
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you don't breathe deeply enough to supply your brain with sufficient oxygen.
When we get stressed, we tend to hold our breath or only hreathe in a shallow
way, using only the top part of our lungs. In order to deepen your breathing and
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Questions:
96. What could be one of the factors for being stressed and not being able to concentrate
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properly?
97. What kind of breathing do we have when we are stressed?
Ans. : Answers: (1) One of the factors for being stressed is not breathing deeply
enough to supply our brain with sufficient Oxygen.
(2) When we are stressed, we tend to hold our breath or only breathe in a shallow
way, using only the top part of our lungs.
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Why is mental flexibility needed ?
Ans. : When you suffer from a problem in concentrating, concluding the things,
taking decisions and grasping the easy things; it becomes clear that you are
suffering from mental stress. Mind, emotions and body play important roles in
developing mental balance. They are related to one another and always work
together. Regular exercises, dancing, singing, stopping over thinking,
concentrating exercises, positive thinking and many more are the techniques to
improve mental balance. Our bodies always react to how we think, proves that the
three important parts of our bodies are linked with one another. To build better
stress resilience and rebalance yourself, you have to do several practices like
meditation, yoga, diet, exercises, positive thinking, herbal remedies, singing,
walking, expecting to be lucky, and avoiding negative thoughts. Mental balance
plays vital role in our body as it reduces our mental stress and other physical
health problems and makes our life happier and healthier than before.
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99. The techniques to reduce stress.
Describe the techniques to reduce stress
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Explain the first technique in detail.
What are the benefits of first technique ?
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Explain the second technique in detail
What are the benefits of the second technique ?
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Ans. : There are two main techniques to help yourself during mental stress . They
are to stop over thinking and self - hypnosis. When you are overloaded and you
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have less time, mental pressure and stress start building up in your mind. As a
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result, mind goes into over thinking. You have ‘to stop over thinking and let your
mind relax and calm’ in this technique. ‘I have no expectations and I will deal with
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whatever happens when it happens.’ This mantra will help you to calm down your
excitement and decrese stress level. The second technique is about self- hypnosis
which includes many steps. They are like settling back in a chair and relax, counting
backwards from 99 to 70 and breathe deeply, counting 69 to 30 and assuming
yourself on a staircase stretching ahead you, counting down from 29 to 0 and
visualizing you are in a luxurious lift with views of landscape outside. As you arrive
at 0, you need to start imagining that you enter in a room that is furnished just as
you like.
You should remain there in your imagination until you feel relaxed and rested.
Finally you should open your eyes again slowly. The benefit of first technique is
that you can gain maximum energy at the start of your day by just thinking about
“No expectation” and stop over thinking. The main benefit of self- hypnosis is that
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it increases our concentration power and we feel relaxed and calm which is very
important to maintain mental capacity. By doing abovementioned two exercises on
regular basis, we gain many things in our body itself. They reduce anger and
frustration, boost our confidence, lower the blood pressure, make your body
lighten and many more.
100. Stress control exercises.
What is short meditation – 1 & 2 ?
How will you provide enough oxygen in your brain ?
What do you get when your brain gets oxygen hit ?
What is the crown pull technique ? When is it used ?
How to do the crown pull ?
Does this technique have any advantage on our body ?
Ans. : Meditation itself describes concentration of your mind in your body. Here
author tells about 2 meditations for your healthy and happy life. In short
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meditation-1, you need to close your eyes and think about the words which give
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calmness to you like ‘relax’, ‘peace’ and ‘harmony’. Then meditate on your chosen
word and after that you can open your eyes again. In short meditation- 2, you need
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to pick some material like cloth, stone, piece of paper or anything else that can
appeal to you. Then, you should close your eyes and explore the texture of this
material, spend at least two minutes doing this. Sometimes when we are stressed,
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we arc unable to breathe properly, which results into insufficient oxygen supply in
our brain. In order to get adequate oxygen into your brain, you need to follow the
steps like rubbing your hands and get energy, placing your palms on the area just
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below your navel, breathing continuously into your belly, and imagining breathing
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oxygen into your brain. When you get oxygen hit into your brain, you can
concentrate properly and reduce your stress level. When we are tense and don’t
JAY
breathe deeply enough, this can result in cranial bones becoming slightly stuck
together so that the cerebrospinal fluid cannot circulate properly. It results into
headache, stress etc. in our body. At that time the crown pull technique proves to
be helpful. First, you should place your hands on the top of your head in a way
that your little fingers touch your hairline. Then, you should press down on your
scalp firmly. Now place your hands higher up on the midline of your head and
continue the procedure. You should do it on the back side of the scalp as well. This
influence the flow of the fluid move properly. It helps calm your nervous system
and can also take away a headache or stress - induced stomach ache. It also helps
you in thinking clearly.
101. STRESS CONTROL EXERCISES
What is short meditation-1&2 ?
How to supply enough oxygen in your brain ?
What you gain when your brain gets oxygen hit ?
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What is the crown pull technique ? When is it used ?
How to do the crown pull?
Does this technique have any advantage on our body?
Ans. : Meditation itself describes concentration of your mind in your body Here
author describes 2 meditations for your healthy lifestyle and happy life. In short
meditation- 1, you have to close your eyes and think about the words that give
calmness to you like 'peace', 'relax', 'harmony'. Then meditate on your chosen
word and after that open your eyes again. In short meditation-2, you have to pick
some material like cloth, a stone. a piece of paper or anything else that appeals to
you. Then, close your eyes and explore the texture of this material, spend at least
two minutes doing this. Sometimes when we are stressed, we are unable to
breathe properly, which results into insufficient oxygen supply in our brain. In
order to get adequate oxygen into your brain, you have to follow the steps like
rubbing your hands and get energy, placing your palms on the area just below
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your navel breathing continuously into your belly and imagining breathing oxygen
into your brain When you get oxygen hit into your brain you can concentrate
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properly and reduce your stress level When we are tense or upset and don't
breathe deeply enough this can result in bones in the skull becoming slightly stuck
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together so that the cerebrospinal fluid cannot circulate properly which results
into headache, stress etc. in our body, at that time the crown pull technique is
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used. First of all, place your hands on the top of your head in a way in which your
little fingers touching your hairline. Then, press down on your scalp firmly. Now
place your hands higher up on the midline of your head and continue the
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procedure. Do it on the back side as well. The Crown Pull influences the flow of the
fluid in a positive way. It helps calm your nervous system and can also often take
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103. Screen Exercise and technique of anticipating success
How is the life of people in this modern age?
What stops the people think clearly?
What are simple steps to do screen exercise?
What steps should we follow for anticipating success technique?
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104. (expectations, available, happens, thought)
In order to have the maximum energy .............. at the start of a busy day, use 'I have no
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.......... and I will deal with whatever ........... when it happens' as a from of mantra.
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Ans. : 1. available
2. expectations
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3. Happens
105. (symbolises, comfortable, mental, tranquility)
Make yourself ……… and close your eyes. Choose a word that ………… ‘calmness’ to you :
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Ans. : 1. Comfortable,
2. Symbolises,
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3. Tranquility
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allows the ______________ fluid to move freely though the spinal column and the skull. When
we are __________ or upset and don't breathe deeply enough, this can result in bones in
skull becoming slightly stuck together so that the fluid cannot circulate properly.
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