NLP in ACTION – How to …
By IntellTeacher
Find a time when you have 15 – 20 minutes “free” and are in a place that is comfortable to you … make sure you won’t be disturbed, e.g., the phone is turned off, those you are responsible for are accounted for or otherwise properly engaged – entertained and assume a comfortable body position. Gently think, this time is yours and yours alone; don’t force it, just say to yourself “This time is all mine.” and calmly repeat it until you are convinced. Now, bring to mind a specific goal for yourself and in the early goings select a small goal, e.g., one that you all ready have a good chance of meeting, and write it down.
Then exactly follow the script below:
Step 1. Close your eyes, breathe deeply in a relaxed manner, and verbally, out loud, say the goal you have chosen for this moment.
Step 2. Allow the feelings associated with you now completely stated goal arise on their own accord; don’t force anything and don’t repress anything that comes to mind. You want your “inner talk” to operate freely and speak to you as it will. Stay in this mode until the “voices in your head” have had their say.
Step 3. Now, slowly open your eyes, don’t rush it, and write down the words that describe all the thoughts that came to you in Step 2 above. Your Mind spoke to you using specific words and these are the words you want to capture on paper. Set this sheet of paper to the side, where you can easily see it, but it is not in your way and put a clean sheet of paper in front of you.
Step 4. Bring to Mind a past goal that you were successful in achieving; one that gave you a good feeling once obtained. Don’t concern yourself is the past met goal is in no fashion related to the goal you have selected for this exercise. What is important are the feelings – impressions – sensations – memories of the achieved goal, specifically, the feeling associated with meeting the goal.
Step 5. On the clean sheet of paper before you write down the goal met in the past and then write down all the feelings that accompanied meeting that goal. Quick Point: Focus on bringing feelings to conscious awareness and record them. Your sentences should contain feel words, e.g., kinesthetic based words and not contain words such as “think”.
Step 6. Now, put your two (2) sheets of paper side by side and read aloud each in turn. It really doesn’t matter which you read first; the key is to read each in turn and read them out loud with your full attention in play.
COMPARE AND CONTRAST – The Human Way
Final Step: Sit quietly and calmly while breathing relaxed and easy. Bring to Mind the differences in the recorded two (2) goal events. What do you find? For many, if not most, of us, our inner and ongoing dialogue slants toward the negative or what some would refer to as a “defeatist” attitude. Do you find a richness of positive affirmations in the past goal all ready achieved document, yet your future goal contains dark hints of doubt, potential problems, and possibly even failure as the ultimate outcome?
It seems the majority of the Human Condition goes through life unaware, or only occasionally – peripherally aware of the steady stream of chatter that goes on inside our head. In Buddhist Doctrine this is referred to as “Monkey Mind” and calming, then quieting, and finally rehabilitating the Monkey to speak in positive terms is a key to progress as a fully actualized Human Being.
This particular exercise can assist you in replacing the Negative Speakers with voices that are positive, affirming, and success orientated. First, really get a good understanding of the speakers that generally follow you around on a daily basis … identify and know them all, e.g., the “You aren’t good enough” Speaker. Then, one by one, swap out the voices of doubt with a voice derived from a past success, e.g., “You did it!”. The ultimate goal is to go through the day with “people on your side” speaking to you and jettison all the “harsh critics”. Routinely using this technique will aid you in engaging in creative problem solving as well as accelerated learning applications. It’s far more easy and effective to operate near your full potential when not dragging around a lot of negative baggage so get rid of the “speed bumps on the road to progress” and travel with good company at all times!
Future articles will include NLP techniques in concert with the Accelerated Learning and Creative Problem Solving systems of Dr. Win Wenger. Journey well.
©2009 IntellTeacher
