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Captain’s Log:

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! Remember there is only one week left for our great 50% off Sale of all NFNLP Products. Visit our website today. The website’s store prices reflect the discount and it is a secure site.

I pray that this holiday season finds you with positive love, faith, and prosperity. We could use more of this.

We have a lot of things to let you know this month. I will keep it short as I know you are all busy.

First, we are hosting Georgina Cannon’s Past Life Regression course January 28 & 29, 2006 at the NLP Learning Center in Fort Myers, FL. Presented by Dr. Georgina Cannon, Instructor of the Year, Director and Instructor for the Ontario Hypnosis Centre clinic and school. Georgina’s work in the field of Past Life Regression Therapy has been honored and recorded by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in a three part television special series aired Fall 2004 and repeated around the world.

She is also a regular contributor to the Shirley MacLaine website where she hosts the monthly chat room on hypnosis and past life regression. Georgina’s book “RETURN – Past Life Regression and You” is a best seller, distributed world wide and is now in its second printing.

Because clients frequently “slip into” past or former lives when regressing to the initial sensitizing event, the professional hypnotherapist needs to understand how to work in this field in an effective, healing and ethical way. This is a soul journey process which includes forgiveness, healing and wisdom. We also cover life between lives and the journey and decisions made before birth. Karma and choice.

Participants will:

• Experience a fun two-day, intense, pragmatic, interactive and profound training program
• Regressing and Researching Past Lives, and between lives,
• Find the reason for the decision and journey to this lifetime.
• Learn how to bring forward the wisdom and understanding around the current life
• Bring understanding into current relationships
• Use PLR for researching and healing for mental, physical or emotional pain
• Experience and learn unique pre-birth soul sessions
• Experience and learn from group and one-on-one practice sessions

This 2-day experiential course is a spiritual and profound two days that will make a difference to your life and to your business!

New NLP Forum/Newsgroup!

Finally Ready! Here is the sign up info:

Users who don't have a Yahoo ID can sign up for one for free, and the forum posts can then be sent to a free email account for that Yahoo ID, or forwarded to their own pre-existing email account, or viewed on the yahoo website. This site will be moderated by NLP and Hypnosis trainer Charlie Curtis. His fair and caring attitude is known to all who have trained with him or interacted with him on the hypnosis user group sites. He plans on a true open place to share and grow our field. We are proud to be helping with this.

It is in the alternative health section and is open to all of the other applications of NLP as well, such as sports and business communications. Please get involved it will be a great forum to exchange ideas and feedback.

This month I had the pleasure of teaching a Trainers Training and it was, as always, great to see people learn new skills. I always teach that trainers should always stress the need for self care. As you all know who have taken any class from me, I believe that you need to place your needs at the top of your list, what good is helping others if you lose yourself?

I mention this as I had a great learning experience in November when I taught a NLP Basic Practitioner course. It did not go as well as I had hoped. When it was over I had to take a hard look at myself, and when I did, I realized I had placed my self-care last. It also proved that although NLPers are supposed to be in the field of communication, if we are not careful, or take our skills for granted, those skills can fade into the background when our own physical and mental needs have been ignored or set aside, and must forcefully surface in an attempt to get our attention.

As we say in our Presuppositions - There is no failure, only feedback. I learned a lot that I will implement in the future. I had to admit to myself that the hurricanes, house closing, and my daughter’s second deployment to the mid-east bothered me more than I let on. Then unfortunately, when confronted with multiple negative stimuli at the training, my communications skills decided to rapidly fade into the background. It was truly a learning experience all the way around!

From The road:

Here is a great article from Georgina Cannon, if you like this you would love her classes!

The Spirit of Giving

by Dr. Georgina Cannon (Ontario Hypnosis Centre)

The holiday season is fast approaching and unless you're one of those last minute types, you're probably in the thick of gift shopping. Now is the perfect time to think about the spirit of giving and what it really means.

In North America, most of us have all the stuff we could possibly need and a lot more besides. Do the people on your list really need another thingamabob or whatchamacallit? This year, consider giving gifts that truly give.

Here are some ideas:

Donate to a charity in someone's name. When we have so much, it's important to think about those who could use a little help. Choose a cause that's near and dear to the heart of the person to be named as the donor. He or she will appreciate the gesture.

Give back to the earth. Instead of thinking about what you can give one person, think about what you can give to humankind and the planet at the same time. You might plant a tree, sponsor a park trail, protect an acre of rainforest or adopt a polar bear in your recipient's name.

Give the gift of health. A gift that can help someone improve or maintain optimum health, whether physical or spiritual, is truly precious. Consider a hypnotherapy session, a CD, herbs, massage -- the options are limitless.

Give the gift of yourself. Be a buddy to someone who needs it. Read to your grandmother, commit to taking your uncle grocery shopping once a week, give homemade gift certificates for walks or time spent together on a favourite activity. Behind these gifts are two things that can't ever be bought -- your time and your love.

Make a gift. Often the most appreciated gifts are simple ones that show you put thought and care into creating them. Bake a batch of cookies, make some homemade jam, compile a scrapbook, knit a scarf, whittle a little statue -- we all have special talents. Think about what you can do with your talent to bring a smile to the heart of someone you care about.

This year, take the season beyond the material realm to shed some light and love on the world. You'll be giving the greatest of gifts.

Techniques and Tips:

HAPPY DISNEYLAND BANDWAGON RIDE

By Alex Lam

In Hong Kong, we have just newly opened a Disneyland Park in October of this year. Therefore, in order change behavior patterns of children (age range from 5 to 12), I have developed a technique using the Disney effect to help them to ride from present to the future and change the future image while playing with Disney figures.

First, ask him/her to describe step-by-step “where” he/she “sees” the pictures of having lunch today, yesterday and tomorrow, so that they can notice the unconscious path of timeline. You do not need to explain the concept of timeline, just need to tell him later he will have a happy ride on that path.

Then ask the child to image a picture of ideal self, involving some behavioral changes. Add more sub-modalities features to the picture to make it more vivid and strong in feeling.

Then tell the child, “Look! Here comes the Disneyland bandwagon! Pick your favorite cart. The one with all the princesses? OK. Now the princesses invite you to jump on the cart and join the ride with them. Imagine that the cart now rides from your past, through now, going ahead to your future, on the same path you have just discovered, with all the exciting music and fun along the road.”

When he/she arrives in the future, ask the child to lay down the picture of ideal self. Enlarge the picture. Jump INTO the picture and enjoy the real feelings of BEING the ideal person in the future. Then, get back to the cart, drive back from the future to the present. Along the ride, notice how things change around you in order to assist you to become the ideal self. When you arrive the present, say goodbye to the bandwagon and thank them for the ride.

Then ask the child to open the eyes, ask what he/she feels about that future point and ask if he/she notices any changes happen from now to that point so that the ideal image will happen.

I personally tested this technique and it works great.

In Conclusion:

I know this is a little different and we hope we do not offend anyone: But we would like to share the poem that has been circulating around the internet. Everyone, in every country, has had a friend or loved one in the military. Although this poem references American history, it could just as easily be “your” country’s history, so substitute your own country names. But it is Christmas here, and various other holidays in this season throughout the world… and peace is needed everywhere. This is especially near and dear to Wil Horton’s heart since his own daughter is in the United States Navy.

A DIFFERENT CHRISTMAS POEM

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.

Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.

My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.

The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.
Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know,
Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.

My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.
Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
a lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.

A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

"What are you doing?" I asked without fear,
"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"

For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts...
To the window that danced with a warm fire's light.
Then he sighed and he said
"Its really all right,
I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night."

"It's my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.
No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.

My Gramps died at 'Pearl on a day in December,"
Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."
My dad stood his watch in the jungles of 'Nam',
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.
I've not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.

Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red, white, and blue... an American flag.
"I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.
I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother...
Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall."

"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."
"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,
"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?"
It seems all too little for all that you've done,
For being away from your wife and your son."

Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
"Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us.

WE ALL NEED TO PRAY FOR OUR MILITARY PERSONNEL EVERY NIGHT!