Future Template Relax your body and take several long, slow breaths. If you find your mind wandering, take another deep breath and bring it back to the exercise. Focus on the future situation you’d like to deal with. Decide how you would like to be seeing, feeling, acting and believing in that situation. Use your Safe/Calm Place exercise to bring up the feeling you’d like to have by identifying some experience in your past where you succeeded. Then bring up the positive cognition “I can succeed.” Focus on the positive feelings, such as strength, clarity, confidence or calm. Focus on an image
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