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NLP: Drive Your Own Bus

Written by Connie
How would you rather feel?

Hi, Hypno-Friends!

You don’t have to be a master of calibration skills to notice that one of these twins is having a bad moment.  The “why” is irrelevant, what is very important to notice here is the WHAT.  Two twins, sitting together, one happy as a clam, the other in a very horrifically unhappy state.

What may not be apparent to you about each twin’s response:  It’s learned, and it’s a choice.

How a person responds to a moment of life or a situation is absolutely a choice.  The same exact circumstance can trigger any gamut of emotion and response from agony to ecstacy.

One person might see a snake and jump and scream and run, another person might see that snake and stare in fascination and wonder, another might pick it up and make it into a beloved pet.  One person might be stuck in a traffic snarl and put on a music CD and sing along, one car over a person in the same traffic snarl might grab a baseball bat and vent some road rage.

The stories and experiences of our life generate unconscious patterns of response.  And we can notice those patterns, and change them at will.  We can install new, more useful and desired unconscious patterns and responses in ourselves.  That’s NLP.   Neuro-Linguistic Programming.  New emotions and ideas that lead to new behaviors, and new beliefs, and vice versa.  And all of it leads to a life that we want, that we choose.  Success.

Dr. Richard Bandler, the co-originator of NLP, calls this work learning “to drive your own bus.”  Absolutely.  And part of that drive is:  “How do you want to feel?”  Choose something wonderful and useful for the situation.

The difficulty is finding or acquiring the NLP skill set that makes this happen.  Here in Seattle, you have two options.  You can find a skilled and licensed practitioner of NLP who will make short work of your unhappy and limiting beliefs and unwanted behaviors (like me:  http://www.mindworkshypnosis.net/), or you can learn NLP yourself from legitimate sources (like me:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com/) and use the tools for your own life success.  I am a Licensed Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming® and this is my passion.  Unlocking choice for people.

Call me anytime to find out more!  (425) 564-8608.

Warm Regards,
Connie

Posted in: Musings

Irritation to Joy in 30 Seconds or Less

Written by Connie 2 Comments on Irritation to Joy in 30 Seconds or Less
Our mind creates our world.

Hi, Hypno-Friends!

Michael and I are fond of Redbox, renting movies from a kiosk for about a dollar.  Last night we rented a strange, but good one.  “Another Earth.”  It’s about alternate universes and the intertwining of lives and how life can change in a heartbeat.

There was one scene in particular that was “very NLP.”  🙂  The heroine of the movie was sharing a story about space travel.  Now, I don’t know if this story in the movie is “true” or not, but as it unfolds, it’s massively hypnotic and indicative of the power of the mind.  I’ll share it with you.  🙂

She told the story of the first astronaut in space, confined inside a tiny little capsule, basically a cupboard in space.  He’s all alone.  He has a tiny porthole/window through which he can see the stars.  He’s also the first person to see our Planet Earth from an outer space perspective.  The blue against blackness, the curvature.  The exquisite beauty.

Our astronaut journeys to the cosmos, captures the information he has been sent to capture, and now he’s coming back home.  He’s in the middle of his ride home, and a loud slow ticking sound emerges from the control panel.  Like a tapping.  Like a ticking.  He can’t identify the source.  Everything seems to be functioning perfectly, yet the sound continues.  He can’t figure out how to turn it off.  Tick…tick…tick…tick…tick…tick.  Endlessly.  It moves from a question to an annoyance to a larger annoyance.  He sits in the tiny space, listening for hours upon hours to tick…tick…tick…tick…tick…tick, to the point it becomes an absolute maddening sound that threatens his sanity.  Like water torture.  Drip…drip…drip, only it’s tick…tick…tick.  He’s sure he’s about to go insane!

He has days left in the capsule and no way to stop the sound.  It continues.  “Noooooo!  make it stop!!”  He’s on the verge of absolutely losing it.  Tick…tick…tick.  Tick…tick…tick.

Finally, in a moment of desperation, he decides that the only way to survive is to fall in love with the sound.  To transform the sound in his mind to something enjoyable, beautiful even.  He focuses his mind.  Suddenly, the ticking is music, it’s music to his ears.  Lovely, haunting, beautiful music, an appropriate backdrop to the stars and glow of the earth out his porthole window.

He rides home in a state of utter bliss.

I like this story!!  It’s true, in that WE control how we interpret our world.  We choose how to understand and react to anything.  I once lived in an apartment near a very busy street, with constant traffic noise.  It was bothering me!  I decided NOT to be irritated anymore and to not even notice the sound.  And it vanished.  Not really, only to me.  No longer an irritant.

My dad snored.  To me it was a hideous sound.  To my mother, it was a sound of comfort.  “He’s home, he’s safe, he’s with me.”  We can make our world what we want.  It’s all in the interpretation, which we control in our minds.

The mind is amazingly powerful.  That’s what hypnosis does, it’s a tool to focus the mind more powerfully and more effectively.  We all use hypnosis every day, whether it’s formally induced or not.  We can change our perceptions, our perspective, our thinking.  And that changes everything.  How we feel, and what we do behaviorally in the world.

It’s all moveable furniture!

Happy Sunday to you, find some time to create a moment of enjoyment  Your mind can do that!

Warm Regards,
Connie

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