{"id":3188,"date":"2013-01-09T10:42:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T18:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindworkshypnosis.net\/hypnotizer\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2013-05-28T18:45:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T01:45:11","slug":"seattle-hypnosis-for-behavioral-flexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindworkshypnosis.net\/hypnotizer\/2013\/01\/09\/seattle-hypnosis-for-behavioral-flexibility\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Bendy Straw Knows and You Can Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Flexibility for the Win!<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Everyone’s talking about “New\u00a0 Year’s Resolutions.” But how do we actually create newness and change?<\/p>\n

With\u00a0 hypnosis and NLP, you can change how you think, and how you feel about things.\u00a0\u00a0You can change how you see things, and even what you believe to be true.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And, all this leads to what’s\u00a0really important: you can change your behaviors, change what you do in the\u00a0 world. And what you don’t do.<\/p>\n

I have a favorite quote from\u00a0comedian, George Carlin. He’s talking about words and the perplexity of words.\u00a0\u00a0We have words to describe burnability: something is flammable, something is\u00a0nonflammable, or something is inflammable. Carlin says, why three choices?\u00a0\u00a0“Either the thing flams or it doesn’t!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

That’s funny. That’s also called\u00a0digital thinking. Yes, no, on off. When you change to thinking along a\u00a0continuum, you open up an infinity of new choices. More choices, equals more\u00a0flexibility, equals more success. In short, hypnosis finds and gives you more\u00a0choice.<\/p>\n

There’s an expression in NLP: “the one with the\u00a0most flexibility wins.”<\/strong> Behavioral flexibility is the holy grail. It’s\u00a0what we want and seek for our clients and ourselves. If you’re not flexible,\u00a0you’re rigid, stiff, always doing what you’ve always done. You’re stuck! Lao Tzu\u00a0(ancient philosopher) said: “Bend like a reed in the wind – that is the real strength.\u00a0 The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows.\u00a0 The young tree bends and does not break.”\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>Hypnosis opens up\u00a0unstuck, also called choice, also called flexibility.<\/p>\n

Here’s a real world example. I\u00a0had a client yesterday who gravely informed me that he’s an\u00a0“addict”<\/strong> to cigarettes. Now, that’s a STUCK statement. He’s\u00a0trapped! He’s done. Put him in his coffin. An addict can’t quit smoking, by\u00a0definition. We used hypnosis & NLP to change how he sees himself, and when\u00a0the label “addict” left, so did a restriction on his choices.<\/p>\n

In one piece of our work, we\u00a0asked the creative unconscious mind to come up with completely healthy\u00a0alternative behaviors to replace smoking. The unconscious can do that in a\u00a0heartbeat, and did. Now, there are many new options available to him,\u00a0 behaviorally. And we enticed his mind to put those new choices into action. This\u00a0pulled the rug out from under being “addicted” to smoking. Now he has the\u00a0freedom to say “no way in hell”<\/strong> to cigarettes. And he did. We\u00a0created a new nonsmoker yesterday.<\/p>\n

If you’re stuck in a behavior, in\u00a0a habit, a pattern, a way of thinking, feeling, or being that does not serve\u00a0you…there are more choices than you can currently see. Hypnosis can open up\u00a0that trap, let you out of the cage and into the sunlight of infinite\u00a0 resourcefulness.<\/p>\n

Warm Regards,
\nConnie
\nhttp:\/\/www.mindworkshypnosis.net<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.seattlenlptraining.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flexibility for the Win! Everyone’s talking about “New\u00a0 Year’s Resolutions.” But how do we actually create newness and change? With\u00a0 hypnosis and NLP, you can change how you think, and how you feel about things.\u00a0\u00a0You can change how you see things, and even what you believe to be true. And, all this leads to what’s\u00a0really […] <\/p>\n

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