word 2010 paragraph at top of page

I have an image at the top of a page. The problem is that I need a paragraph with 8 pts above that image. I defined a style for that. The paragraph below the image works fine, but the one before the image doensn't. If I add an empty line in front of the image it works fine, but I need it to be a paragraph, without an empty line.

paragraph needed

Can you guys tell me how the problem could be resolved?

Thanks in advance