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Stress Reduction NLP

Following on from our previous article, Reducing Stress – Key Success Factors, we will now look at practical ways in which you can reduce stress and anxiety, without recourse to drugs or other expensive and time consuming treatments.

These practical ways are based around NLP – Neuro Linguistic Programming – and we must first understand what this is.

Neuro Linguistic Programming is a collection of techniques that allow us to understand how our minds work, and apply this knowledge so that we can achieve greater success in life and make positive changes to better ourselves.

It is unsurprising therefore that NLP has its basis in Psychology. NLP was founded by John Grinder and Richard Bandler back in the 1970s. Working together, they found a way to turn excellent behaviour into a process. They then sought to teach that process to others, so that anyone can learn excellent behaviour. Their work is based upon their study of eminent experts in human behaviour, including Virginia Satir, Gregory Bateson, Milton Erickson and Fritz Perls.

Bandler and Grinder initially studied these eminent therapists and found them to be excellent communicators – they all generated amazing changes with their clients purely through their conversations and the clever use of their language with their clients. This is where Bandler and Grindler came up with the term Neuro Linguistic Programming:

Neuro – How we use our nervous system to experience the world around us. All the information that enters into our brain using our five senses of sight, sound, touch, smell and taste.

Linguistic – How we use language and other non-verbal communication systems to interpret this information – pictures (is it focussed and clear or hazy), sounds (is it a loud or quiet noise), touch (does it feel rough or smooth), smell (does it smell fresh as a daisy or is it an odour of decay), taste (does it taste too salty or too sweet).

Programming – Once we have interpreted all this information, we run programmes (often unconsciously) to get things done. We are not aware that we are running them; they are just part of our routine. For example, brushing our teeth twice a day, or washing our face, or our daily drive in to work. Using all the information in our mind we can find out what is in that programme. If there’s something that needs changing we can do so. For example if you can write presentations easily but get anxious about standing up and actually presenting, or you find it easy to talk to your boss informally but get nervous when you ask for a promotion or pay rise, or you play sports excellently for fun but always lose in competitions, NLP can help.

NLP teaches you how to change your unwanted actions into excellent actions and behaviours, so instead of feeling anxious about having to lead the client presentation and how you might mess this up, your behaviour would be to feel excited and motivated about how well you will be able to lead the client presentation.

NLP is formed around the concept that all behaviour is rooted in the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind is the bit of the brain that is always functioning, and runs all our necessary programmes, even though we are not aware of this, like making sure we keep breathing when we are sleeping.

The unconscious mind stores all our memories, processes all our experiences, filters everything we feel, hear, see, taste and smell, and it attaches emotion to everything we do.

NLP shows us how to access our unconscious minds, and also provides techniques for making changes at the unconscious level. Because the change is unconscious, it is easier, faster and more permanent.

Consider this example – A few years ago I was standing in my friend’s garden with her, her husband and her two year old son, who was playing at her feet. A large cat suddenly jumped onto her garden wall. She screamed and grabbed her son. He instantly picked up on her fear and started crying. The cat stayed immobile on the wall. Her husband, annoyed that she had taught their son to be frightened of cats, took him from her, and tried to show him that the cat was friendly, but his son was terrified, even though the cat had not attacked anyone. He had learned, in an instant, to be afraid of cats.

Anxiety is a learnt behaviour. The brain does not differentiate between a wanted or unwanted behaviour. It just does things to get results. So, where you have learnt to feel anxious in a situation, you can unlearn that too.

You can also learn positive behaviours instantly. If you change your hair style and everyone tells you how great it looks, you automatically style it that way more often.

Every time you have a moment of realisation like this, your brain makes a new connection and you are learning.

And it is in this ability to use NLP techniques to unlearn unwanted behaviour, and learn desired behaviour, that one solution to anxiety lays.

Look out for the next article in this series shortly.

Heena Pattni, Anxiety Treatment Specialist, is committed to providing professional women with tailored, painless, effective and long-lasting solutions to their anxiety, stress and related issues, using powerful NLP Therapy, Time Line Therapy™ and Hypnotherapy techniques. She is committed to providing them with the ongoing resources to maintain the positive changes they make during their time with her, freeing her clients to pursue their goals with increased confidence, motivation and determination. Visit us at http://anxietytreatmentspecialist.co.uk

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Hypnosis and NLP

According to the book titled “Hypnosis for Change”, authored by Josie Hadley and Carol Staudacher: “….What is Hypnosis? Hypnosis has long been associated with the strange and mysterious, with side shows and faith healers; yet hypnosis isn’t mysterious or supernatural and we have all been in a hypnotic state literally thousands of times. You didn’t notice because it is such a natural state of mind. And the hypnotic state is natural for all humans and many animals…”

In definition, Hypnosis is a communication between conscious mind and the sub-conscious mind in trance state, or a sleep-like state. What can hypnosis do for you? Other than provide a fascinating new experience. The answer is that hypnosis can be used to improve your general functioning, to make you feel better mentally or physically.

Hypnosis is the bridge connects the conscious mind and the sub conscious mind. Before we go into how we can achieve the desire change by using hypnosis, we need to understand then level of the consciousness.

1st level – Alert: This is the normal intellectual functioning level; our mind is set to normal reflex & motor respond

2nd level – Light Trance: In this state, our body is in relaxation condition, breathing & pulse will become slow, and our attention will be focus in imagination activity.

3rd level – Moderate Trance: you are losing awareness of surrounding, but increasing awareness of internal function, such as: breathing, heart beat and so on.

4th level – Deep Trance: there is further reduction of activity and energy output in this state; normally you will fell limpness or stiffness of limb. The attention will be barrowed and increased suggestibility.

5th level Sleep – all the voluntary exercise is suspended in this level, severe reduction of absence of conscious though.

The 2nd to 4th level are the ones in which the change of behavior will occur and the one we can suggest any changes that we want. This is because when you are in light trance or deep trance state, your body and mind will experiencing a totally relaxation and sleeping feeling, it will reduce the activity of consciousness by which this is the filter of all possibility and suggestion. When the consciousness level goes down, it will increase the activity of sub-conscious mind, meaning to say the more creative of your mind to create the desire change.

The Milton Model is one of the Neuro-linguistic Programming or Neuro-linguistic (NLP) powerful techniques that co-created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder using the hypnotic techniques developed by Milton H. Erickson, who was well known for founding clinical hypnotherapy. Then they had published their 2 books on the Milton Model named “Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Volume I”in 1975 and “Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Volume II” in 1977.

The following is a summary of the specialized Self-hypnosis treatment: Phobia, worry, smoking, weight loss, sport, anxiety, pain, depression, natural childbirth, self-esteem and more.

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Jacky Chan is author of nlp ebook “Introducing NLP – 13 Secrets to Achieve Ultimate Success in Life”. Jacky knows exactly how to attain Peak Performance by applying powerful NLP techniques. Get more powerful NLP articles written by Jacky at here: http://www.SecretOfNLP.com

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The Background of Covert Hypnosis

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), or conversational hypnosis, is the cogitation of how we believe and experience our world around us. Apparently, the nature of our brains and awareness hasn’t become an exact scientific discipline quite up to now, so the main technique used by NLP is to form examples of how these things work. Included in this is conversational hypnosis.

The examples are then utilized to produce strategies for quickly altering thoughts, beliefs, and conducts that you might not want or require any longer, or even be aware of. The 2 individuals generally accredited with formulating NLP are Richard Bandler and John Grinder. Bandler was a psychological science student at the University of CA at Santa Cruz in 1970, when he connected with a group led by Grinder, then a affiliate professor of linguistics at the school.

The 2 men got to be acquaintances and started out working together, both molded by the Family Therapy work of Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls’ Gestalt Therapy, and Milton H. Erickson’s work. Bandler used his backdrop in math and computers and Grinder utilized his linguistics cognition to discover patterns and create models.

Both Bandler and Grinder were imprinted with the apparently sorcerers effect that therapists like Satir and Erickson had on their customers, and needed to see if they may break it down to a scientific level, so it may be more easily procreated by anybody, including conversational hypnosis.

Other like-minded individuals got together with Bandler and Grinder, and several of the techniques that are still utilized nowadays were built up, including anchoring, standardization, reframing, representational systems, and assorted personal behavioral change techniques as we; as conversational hypnosis.

Throughout the former seventies, Bandler and Grinder worked at fresh themes and tries out while giving workshops and authoring books. The Structure of Magic, Volumes one and two, Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, Volumes One and two, and Frogs Into Princes were all brought out during the subsequent 5 years.

A lot of these books are chiefly addressed to therapists needing to use hypnosis in their work, however anybody concerned in the subject will discover valuable data there.

By the early eighties Bandler and Grinder had each formulated their own themes about hypnosis and had parted company, each to go forward on his own. A few find that approximately this time hypnosis and NLP lost some of its initial creativeness and went in a temporary falling off, turning into more of a ceremonious band aid New Age therapy, commercialized to individuals with lots of revenue who desired second results.

There was more or less bickering among different sects over who “owned” NLP and conversational hypnosis and who advanced the “real” version. As time went by, NLP and conversational hypnosis grew in fame and acquired many different chains, till its present status as a kind of “open source” system, without any fundamental expert or single owner. This anarchical spirit contributes to its originative vim now.

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Using Embedded Commands For Seduction

When you intend to seduce either a woman or man it pays to have a plan and one of the very best seduction techniques you could ever learn are embedded commands. The idea behind embedded commands came from Milton Erickson and was later fine tuned by John Grinder and Richard Bandler, the co-founders of NLP. There are many uses for embedded commands but in this article I will concentrate on how they can be used to seduce anyone you desire.

Embedded commands work by planting a thought or idea into the mind of the person you are trying to seduce. So, for example, if I was talking to an attractive woman that I had met via strange circumstances I might  say to her “Isn’t it funny we should be together like this?”. It’s a perfectly natural piece of conversation but within the question you will notice the command “we should be together”. This places the idea in the woman’s mind that it would be a good idea for us to get together.

At this juncture I would like to mention the importance of the tone of your voice while delivering embedded commands. They are called commands for a reason, they should be spoken in the manner of a command. That doesn’t mean you need to seem stern and authorities though (although it is a good idea to appear in control of the situation if you are a man looking to seduce a woman). Commands should be delivered with a downward inflection. This is in contrast to questions which end with an upward inflection. If you’re not sure what I mean by this say “go to the shop” out-loud to yourself and listen to the commanding tone of your voice.

There are a couple of different formulas that have been designed to help with the creation of embedded commands but I find these to be restrictive and often too obvious or difficult to naturally slip into a conversation. I have come up with a number of embedded commands for the purposes of seduction and I invite you to borrow them as well as create your own.Successfully seduce anyone you want.

“I could sense/feel the excitement…”
“It’s just like me to…”
“Sometimes you have to take a chance…”
“You can find the perfect man/woman (touch or stroke your chin)  for you if you look hard enough.”
“Isn’t it great when you can feel a connection growing?”
“Did it feel good?”
“Could you imagine us in the future?” This one works great after a discussion about life goals.

The embedded commands above can be used on a man or woman.

Before you start trying to seduce people with embedded commands it is important to spend time practicing so that your technique is flawless. If you go out and attempt to use embedded commands without practice your speech will sound awkward and disjointed and you will enjoy no success.

The best way to practice and master the use of embedded commands for seduction is first by creating a number of commands that flow well with your regular speech patterns. Commands don’t have to be complicated so this part should be easy. Once you have an arsenal of embedded commands, practice speaking them into a dictaphone (many cell phones now have this capability).

Keep practicing and playing your recordings back to yourself until your embedded commands flow smoothly to the point where you believe no-one would ever suspect that you are using this powerful seduction technique.

When you are ready you can begin using these commands while talking to a potential partner. Pay close attention to how they react whilst you are speaking to them. Some commands will work better than others, try to gauge which ones have the desired effect and which ones don’t. This way you can edit your embedded commands for the future, keep the good ones and ditch bad ones.

If you stumble the first few times in a real social situation don’t worry. It is perfectly natural as you are now in a new and stimulating environment. You will soon find yourself settling into a rhythm where embedded commands become second nature to you.

Do not forget that the dance of seduction is a two way conversation not a monologue so make sure to listen just as much as you talk.

Please be responsible with this technique.

Doug Slater.

Doug Slater

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