What is Neuro-Linguistic Programming? (hypnosis)
No commentsBy Tad and Adriana James
You can use a computer, but…
Perhaps you’ve managed, over the last ten years, to learn how use a personal computer, and now you are computer literate. But how much do you know about what’s going on inside yourself and others? Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is about just that.
Knowing about what is going on inside yourself and what’s going on inside others! Perhaps you’ve wondered, “How do I communicate better,” or, “How do I get in control of my own personal computer my brain!” Now, a new technology makes it easy to understand how we think, how we communicate, and how we process emotions!
NLP techniques and processes help us to understand ourselves and others, and to produce new, and more effective ways to:
Attract the right person for you
Create ideal relationships
Advance your career & make more money
Increase motivation and energy
Create your desired self-image
Communicate to produce the kind of results you want
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a behavioral technology, which simply means that it is a set of guiding principles, attitudes, and techniques about real-life behavior, and not a removed, scientific theorem. It allows you to change, adopt or eliminate behaviors, as you desire, and gives you the ability to choose your mental, emotional, and physical states of well-being.
Using NLP In Business:
PEOPLE: In all my days in business, first as a business person, then as a business owner, and finally as a business consultant, I could never understand people. One of my favorite comments which voiced my frustration was to say, “Times are changing, and people won’t do what you tell them to do like they used to!” I really believed that. You see when I started managing people in 1968, as sales manager of a radio station in Syracuse, New York, people could be trusted to do what you said. Ten years later, if I asked someone to do something, they would ask me, Why?” This frustrated me to no end, and I felt as if I would never understand it!
Of course, I know now, that how I communicated to them was the problem, and the answer to my frustration too! More often than not, I would tell them what not to do, or what not to believe. As simple as that sounds, it was a revelation to me when I discovered NLP trainings. I began to tell people what to do, but in a way that the information would make the information acceptable regardless of the content of what I was telling them.
What a change!
MOTIVATION: I used to think that whether or not I was motivated depended on my motivation wasn’t in my control, so if my wife said something to me in the morning, it could ruin my day. My first wife was quite negative, and on the way to work on many days, she would get me so upset that I finally had to ask her to “talk positively or be quiet.” Then, if something happened during the day, it could also ruin my day. When I took my first NLP Practitioner Training, I realized that my motivation is totally under my control, and that I could change what I was feeling about a situation simply by remembering a time that I was totally motivated! What a thought!
RAPPORT: For me, one of the most impactful learnings I got from taking the NLP Practitioner Training was the notion that I could meet with and establish rapport with anyone that I desired. When we were doing business consulting in the early 1980’s, before I learned NLP, we found that we would “sign-up” or “close” about 30% of the people with whom we met. We thought we were doing well at that rate, and that we probably could not do better than that. When I learned NLP, and then taught some key points to the consultants, almost overnight our closing rate climbed to above 90%. By learning NLP, I had dramatically increased my ability to establish rapport with potential clients. Imagine being able to communicate with anyone, and establish rapport with them at will. It totally changed my perspective of what was possible!
HOW PEOPLE DECIDE: We also trained our consultants to discover how people make decisions. Imagine, if you will, that you had an inside track to someone’s decision-making process. What if you could fit your presentation right inside the way they make decisions? Imagine how easy management could become! In NLP, the process by which we do this, is called strategies, and it allows us to understand how people create behaviors, reach decisions, and how they’re reassured that what they’ve done is good.
With NLP, you learn how to grow from every single life experience, thus increasing your ability to create a better quality of life. NLP is a very pragmatic technology based on an ability to produce your desired results, thus allowing you to become proficient at creating the kind of future you want! In the end it is not a lot different from understanding how to program a computer — your own bio-computer.
While many people study NLP and Time Line Therapy techniques for their own personal growth and development, they are also of the utmost value to the professional. Some professions using NLP include Salespeople, Business Executives, Managers, Business Owners, Lawyers, Teachers, Trainers, Counselors, Educators, Doctors, Chiropractors, Massage Therapists, Consultants, Hypnotherapists, Psychologists, Athletes, Entertainers and Performers. Regardless of profession, the majority of NLP participants are searching, and finding, better and more effective ways to increase their performance and improve their effectiveness.
WHAT IS TIME LINE THERAPY?
Throughout history, humankind has been aware of the passage of time. Aristotle was the first to mention the “stream of time” in his book Physics IV. William James spoke of linear memory storage as early as 1890. Finally, the concept, nearly forgotten, was revived in the late 1970’s by the developers of NLP.
In 1985, we began to apply a therapeutic process to this concept of an internal memory storage system. The result was a collection of techniques which produces long-lasting transformation very quickly-faster than what is currently called Brief Therapy. These powerful Time Line Therapy techniques are becoming the method of choice to make fast, effective, long-term changes in behavior.
Your “Time Line” is how you unconsciously store your memories or how you unconsciously know the difference between a memory from the past and a projection of the future. Behavioral change in an individual takes place at an unconscious level. People don’t change consciously. The Time Line Therapy process allows you to work at the unconscious level and release the effects of past negative experiences and change “inappropriate” programming in minutes rather than days, months or years.
After years of development, working with clients and publishing Time Line Therapy and The Basis Personality, the Time Line Therapy model has become known worldwide . It is a revolutionary new approach which has become so popular because of its ability to create quick, long lasting results.
How will studying NLP and Time Line Therapy techniques benefit me? Through using these techniques, your personal happiness and professional success will be much more consistent, and much more predictable. Your effectiveness working with others will be dramatically increased, and your ability to empower yourself for optimum results will be increased. You will be able to generate empowering emotional states within yourself at will, eliminate any negative emotions or limiting decisions, identify and change limiting beliefs, inspire yourself with a compelling future that will have much better chances of coming true, and create patterns of excellence from any role model you choose.
Achieving Professional Excellence. Whether you’re already succeeding in your profession, having some difficulties, or if you’re transitioning into a new position, NLP and Time Line Therapy techniques can help you achieve, maintain and enhance excellence.
If you understand computers, you already understand how NLP works! Computers are about man-machine interface. NLP is about mind-body interface. The entire process is very similar! Maybe it’s time to learn about your own personal computer — your mind!
Tad and Adriana James, are Certified Master Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). In 1991, Tad co-founded the Time Line Therapy Association, a non-profit organization. Tad and Adriana spend much of their time traveling the globe delivering Tad’s popular seminars and trainings on NLP, Creating Your Future, Time Line Therapy and Hypnosis. For more information on their services visit http://www.nlpcoaching.com.
Hypnosis Certification Training - Learning to Hypnotize
By Caterina Christakos
We have all seen hypnotists on television and stage hypnosis has become very popular but there are far more uses for hypnosis than making volunteers cluck like chickens. Hypnosis Certification is specialized training in helping hypnotists put clients into a deep enough trance to make powerful hypnotic changes. Hundreds of people all over the world have used hypnosis to lose weight, stop smoking, break bad habits and increase their motivation.
Sports figures have gone to hypnotists to increase their concentration and performance. Top celebrities have gone to certified hypnotists to increase their confidence and get better control over their lives. Oprah published an article in her O magazine on the benefits of hypnosis in helping people lose weight and keep it off. Samuel Jackson and Matt Damon stopped smoking with hypnosis.
Hypnosis training can help you help others in much the same way. When you get certified in hypnosis you learn the techniques to help put your clients into a deep trance quickly and easily, while giving them pre-determined suggestions. You work with your clients to find out exactly what changes that they want made, often helping them to clarify their true desire. You then create hypnotic suggestions to help them achieve these goals.
As a hypnosis practitioner you are responsible for building rapport with your clients. You are not forcing them to be hypnotized. Instead you are working with them to build trust so that they can feel safe enough with you to relax and make these changes. It is important when creating these suggestions that you phrase them in the now, so learning how to monitor your language is a big part of your hypnosis certification training. Another part is reading between the lines. Some one may come in saying that they want to quit smoking but have some sub conscious benefits to being a smoker. For example, many people smoke as a social tool. They feel more confident with a cigarette in their hands. So you would need to address both issues. You would need to create suggestions to help them quit and also feel confident in social situations.
Weight loss hypnosis is similar. There is often a subconscious reason why people gain and lose weight in cycles. They may get rid of the weight temporarily but the emotional reason behind their binges has not been dealt with, which causes subsequent weight gain. Part of your job as a hypnotist is to address this. We are not talking about doing therapy here. Your job as a hypnotist is not to find out everything that has happened to them since they were five. But if you can determine the trigger that causes them to eat, you can address it and even find an alternate, healthier behavior to replace the eating.
Hypnosis certification training is an excellent way to learn these different techniques and identify these hidden indicators so that you can help your clients achieve even more powerful and longer lasting changes in their lives.
Caterina Christakos is a published author and entrepreneur.For more information on hypnosis certification training go to:Hypnosis Certification Training
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Easy Ways To Break A Chewing Tobacco Addiction With NLP
By Alan Densky
The addiction to smokeless tobacco is easily as dangerous and debilitating as the addiction to smoking cigarettes. In fact, many experts proclaim that it is even more insidious. Chewing has been glamorized by sports professionals. Many people who dip smokeless started as early as 9 years of age! And by the time that many of these youngsters turn eighteen, they are overcome by throat and mouth cancer, and many are dying.
While a person with lung cancer can look normal, the face of a victim of mouth cancer can be an awful sight. Imagine how a face looks after having a jawbone cut out, or the lips or tongue surgically removed. Usually the surgical butchering of the victim’s face is all for nothing, because many die within a year or so anyway.
The experts tell us that the physical addiction to Nicotine is broken after abstaining for seven days. But the psychological part of the addiction is far stronger and may take a much longer time and a lot more effort to overcome, which makes it very difficult to give up smokeless tobacco.
There are three individual factors to the addiction to chewing tobacco. Two of the parts are mental, and one part is physical.
Part A: YOU CHEW FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.
When you were a child and you started crying, your mother would put a bottle into your mouth to calm you down. You would get distracted, become more peaceful, and often go to sleep. That sequence of events was repeated many, many times so that your unconscious mind was programmed: When something goes into your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it.
Now that you are mature, if you feel tense or nervous, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - dip!
Part B: CHEWING IS A CONDITIONED RESPONSE.
Remember Pavlov? Every time that he fed his dogs he rang a bell. After several repetitions, he could just ring the bell, and that would make the dogs salivate.
When you associate chewing tobacco with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings for tobacco and a urge to chew. This is called a conditioned response.
For example: If you chew while you watch a movie, you will automatically get an urge to chew each time you go to the movies.
Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your unconscious: If a person chews smokeless and simultaneously drives a car, the mind takes a snapshot of the tobacco in the hand, and ties it to the image of the steering wheel, dashboard, or view out the windshield, etc.. Thereafter, every time the person drives the car, his unconscious mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of the chew in the hand coming towards the mouth, and the dipper gets a craving for smokeless tobacco.
You may not be consciously aware of the mental picture of the smokeless tobacco, because it may only be at the unconscious level of mind. Just as you are not consciously aware of what you are seeing through your peripheral vision until something or someone draws your attention to it. But the image is there, creating a craving for a dip.
Part C: THERE IS A PHYSICAL ADDICTION TO NICOTINE, BUT . . .
I have had the experience of working with several thousand people for tobacco cessation and I give you my personal guarantee that the physical addiction to smokeless tobacco is the weakest part of the habit. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction. Ninety percent of the dipping habit are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B).
HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A PERSON WHO CHEWS SMOKELESS TOBACCO AND WHO WANTS TO QUIT.
What this means is that if you can eliminate the feeling of tension that causes you to chew smokeless tobacco for relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and if you can extinguish the conditioned response of feeling a craving for dip when watching TV, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can stop dipping tobacco without requiring willpower, and without suffering from withdrawal symptoms or weight-gain.
Hypnosis will make it easy to give up tobacco because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:
Part A is where dippers dip smokeless for relaxation and pleasure. It’s our thoughts that create tension. More to the point, people always run mental movies in their mind’s eye. If the movie is negative, it creates a feeling of tension.
We can use different NLP techniques to program the unconscious mind to easily take those anxiety producing mental pictures and movies, and automatically exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This produces relaxation and pleasure, and obliterates the anxiety that creates the oral urges for chewing.
Because of the elimination of tension, the person who is quitting doesn’t feel the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the chew. So quitting without weight gain is possible.
Stopping the addiction to smokeless is very similar to overcoming the addiction to food, cigarettes, and nail biting. I have many additional original articles on these topics in my free NLP and hypnosis article repository.
Part B is where people dip smokeless tobacco because chewing tobacco becomes a conditioned response to many different activities and locations. Remember in the earlier example how smoking became unconsciously associated with other activities and environments so that each time a person who chews gets into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of smokeless tobacco in your hand, and the image of the smokeless tobacco in your hand triggers cravings for smokeless?
There are powerful and effective NLP and hypnosis technologies that can quickly extinguish those conditioned responses so that a person’s unconscious will lose the cravings for chew, and the compulsion to chew smokeless tobacco. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject chewing.
In summation, when we use certain NLP techniques, it can be very easy to stop chewing without weight gain or having to suffer from withdrawal. And many of these hypnotic techniques do not even depend on post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on programming the unconscious mind to use the same thought processes that the unconscious mind is using to create the addiction to smokeless tobacco, to eliminate the mental addiction.
Alan B. Densky, CH offers NLP CDs to quit smokeless tobacco. He helps clients with hypnosis for weight loss, smoke cessation hypnosis, and stress related symptoms. He maintains a library of hypnosis & NLP articles, and offers FREE NLP and hypnosis newsletters & MP3s. http://www.neuro-vision.us/
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