1. WHY A REVOLUTION?
The ‘why’ is always important for the rational side of our brains. Why are we using this particular mantra?  Why do we use mantras like this? Keep the rational side happy and you can go play in the rest of the brain.

2. OPEN THE GATE FOR THE REVOLUTION
To enter the rest of the brain (ie. beyond the rational), we need to relax (that’s the ‘gate’).  This is where the real (joyous) work will be done. The visualisations and mantras then soothe and clean and balance those long-accumulated negative scripts and ideas.

3. VISUALISE THE REVOLUTION
The deepest parts of the brain work with imagery (and are stimulated by words). So visualising where we want to go with the mantra work, how we want to feel, the way we’d like to be, is critical (and also fabulous fun and deeply powerful).

4. REPEAT FOR REVOLUTION
Repetion is the essential technique for changing our existing (unhealthy) scripts. This is how these scripts got there in the first place (constant repetition), so this is how we balance them (and, shhh, replace them). We have some great ideas for making repetition of these mantras a part of your life.

THE F**K IT PRINCIPLES
‘F**k It’, the original mantra, affects the brain.  Which direction it takes in your brain depends on how you use it.  This is the guide to the primary ways (and principles) to use F**k It.

THE SCIENCE OF THE F**K IT MANTRAS
To understand how the F**k It mantras work, it’s worth understanding some of how the brain works – especially the hemispheres, the brain frequencies and the role of the subconscious.

F**K IT, IT DOESN’T MATTER SO MUCH
This first mantra is so effective because it gets to the heart of the issue for most of us – that we take everything so seriously and it all becomes so HEAVY. This is an instant lightener and perspective-giver.

F**K IT, I CAN RELAX NOW
Relaxation is at the heart of this work, and there’s little that can relax like this mantra.  Even if the rational brain responds that there’s no reason to relax (now), the mantra will help tease out one, and you’ll RELAX (now).

F**K IT THIS IS WHAT IT IS
We could spend all year just on ‘acceptance’. It’s a big subject (John has written at least one book on this). But these five words get you there in an instant (without the instant debate). In our instinctive need to resist (what is), this zaps your brain with the irrefutable truth – ‘this is what it is’.

F**K IT, I AM WHAT I AM
Gaia spends her life on this one, via her ‘F**k It Be Yourself’ work.  The core of many of our issues is the non-acceptance, the non-approving, the non-loving of ourselves.  F**k It, we are what we are. I am what I am.  Now let’s start living.

HOLDING THE SIX
It’s one thing to be working with the F**k It mantras one-by-one (which we have to do in order to successfully embed them). But imagine being able to hold all six, so that you draw on just the appropriate one when something arises in your reality (like a video game player rolling through the required weapons).

MANTRA JAZZ
Using our F**k It mantras over months so far is like learning an instrument, having the scales deep within our fingers and brains.  Well, now let’s play with the mantras, jazz-style.  Let’s make some new ones and let’s make beautiful music with our lives in the process.

THE ‘I AM’ MIRACLE
No spoilers here, but there are tricks to creating your own longer affirmations, and the correct use of ‘I am’ is a miracle in itself in that context.