{"id":1257,"date":"2011-02-17T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindworkshypnosis.net\/hypnotizer\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2013-06-08T19:08:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T02:08:37","slug":"where-are-the-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindworkshypnosis.net\/hypnotizer\/2011\/02\/17\/where-are-the-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"“Where are the Tomatoes?”"},"content":{"rendered":"
I have these VERY comfortable black leather Rebok shoes I love to wear.\u00a0 They are a happy medium, satisfying both my desires for a nice look and comfort.\u00a0 They’re basically dressy tennis shoes, and they have laces.\u00a0 I’ve never had trouble with those laces.\u00a0 Until recently!<\/div>\n

Recently, they come undone. \u00a0\u00a0All by themselves.\u00a0 Frequently.\u00a0 It’s pretty weird, actually.\u00a0 One of my clients commented on it, told me that it’s because my shoelaces are just so RELAXED.\u00a0 Loose.\u00a0 Nice idea!\u00a0 That is a state of being often elicited around me.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The shoes remind me of a story of my little neighbor kid, who lived across the street when I was growing up.\u00a0 He liked to wander over into our yard and look at my dad’s tomato plants.\u00a0 (My dad grew the BEST tomatoes!)\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Nosy kid.\u00a0 He had this idea that full-blown, grown tomatoes should pop up overnight.\u00a0 He’d come over and stare at the garden the day after my dad planted and ask:\u00a0 “Where are the tomatoes??” \u00a0I guess in his model of the world, that plant “didn’t work.”<\/p>\n

What if that plant is actually growing gangbusters, under the surface?\u00a0 What if the nicest, freshest, beautiful crop of tomatoes is forming, and will emerge soon?<\/p>\n

Sometimes my hypnosis clients demonstrate a similar “all right now or it’s nothing” attitude when they come in.\u00a0 (They don’t get to keep it.)\u00a0 If it isn’t immediate and obvious 1000% success, “it didn’t work.”\u00a0 It being hypnosis.\u00a0 One smoker client reduced a pack and a half a day habit down to 3 cigarettes in a week, and reported:\u00a0 “I didn’t smoke in the car, I didn’t smoke at work, I didn’t smoke in the morning, I felt no urge to, but then my mother-in-law called and you know, I had to have a cigarette.\u00a0 It didn’t work!”\u00a0 Yes, it did.\u00a0 And it IS working.\u00a0 It’s a process of change.\u00a0 IT is not a finite thing, it grows and evolves, like a tomato plant.<\/p>\n

Shoelaces.\u00a0 That “all or nothing” attitude would entail an awful lot of money spent on shoes.\u00a0 Your shoelace comes untied.\u00a0 “The shoe didn’t work.”\u00a0 Better toss that shoe away. \u00a0\u00a0Get some different ones.\u00a0 \u00a0Doesn’t matter if they’re custom-made exquisite Italian leather, they didn’t work.\u00a0 They’re untied.<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t it be easier to simply re-tie them and carry on walking?<\/p>\n

The antidote to “all or nothing” is what I call a recovery strategy–and it’s something we install with hypnosis.\u00a0 So you don’t give up prematurely, as change grows.\u00a0 And you don’t let setbacks stop you.\u00a0 You don’t toss away the shoes, berate the shoes as defective or non useful, you simply re-tie them.\u00a0 And carry on.\u00a0 So it is, with hypnosis.\u00a0 Some change is instantaneous, BOOM! Like flicking on a light switch.\u00a0 Other change evolves over time, like a light on a dial control getting brighter and brighter and brighter.\u00a0 Both things happen.\u00a0 I’ve decided to cut my Reboks some slack.\u00a0 They still work.\u00a0 I just tie them and get on with it!<\/p>\n

Warm Regards,
\nConnie<\/p>\n

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I have these VERY comfortable black leather Rebok shoes I love to wear.\u00a0 They are a happy medium, satisfying both my desires for a nice look and comfort.\u00a0 They’re basically dressy tennis shoes, and they have laces.\u00a0 I’ve never had trouble with those laces.\u00a0 Until recently! Recently, they come undone. \u00a0\u00a0All by themselves.\u00a0 Frequently.\u00a0 It’s […] <\/p>\n

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