NFNLP's NLP Today E-zine
May 2007
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Something to think about from Dr. Wil Horton
Intro to NLP Today E-Zine
NLP Today E-Zine is a monthly series of articles that will bring you the best information in the world of NLP and Hypnosis. We will bring you articles that have been proven in the real world. Heavy with techniques and information you can use in your daily life, whether it's as a therapist with clients, business or sales, or just for self-development. We will get you the information you want and can't get. We focus on proven applications, not theory. Our trainers all "do the work." This is the difference that makes the difference. We cut the fluff and bring the main course. Mental Food you can use. NFNLP is the leader in this type of technology.
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Captain’s Log:
Remember, our NLP Home Study Course Tax Sale ends Tuesday, May 15, 2007… 35% off on a single course, 40% off for two courses, 45% off all three NLP Basic, Master, and Trainers Training courses. Call NOW (941) 408-8551 or order through our website’s store…just look for the COMBO prices!
We still have spaces available for the upcoming NGH Trainer the Trainer Course on May 30 to June 3, 2007 in Venice Florida. Call (941) 408-8551 for details.
I just returned from a cool (but tiring) training run. My first stop was a great NLP Basic Practitioner class in Toronto, Canada, hosted by Georgina Cannon and Ontario Hypnosis Centre. As usual, it was a great time. I made a special commitment to myself for this training as I tied my personal string (Those of you who have been through my trainings remember the string.) and I am proud to say it was a success. We had twelve great new NLP Practitioners join our ranks. It was then off to Asia for NLP Basic and Master courses in Kuala Lumpur hosted by Power Events Asia. (Note to trainers, when doing back to back courses on the same topic, keeping track by writing the things covered on the board assures that you do let them “run together” as we teach in our trainers training.) In Asia, we brought in over 40 new NLP Basic practitioners and 14 Master level NLPers. I cannot stress what a vibrant and growing market Asia is, and I look forward to more training there.
The rest of the summer looks to be exciting as well; first, the NGH Trainers the Trainer course in Venice, Florida, then on to India, then back to Malaysia. Finally, I return home to the great NGH conference in Marlborough, MA. (Now you see why I curtailed my offices to focus on trainings and coaching.) I truly have been blessed to be able to do this. It is an honor to associate with all of you.
On a personal note, my wife, Christina, who many of you know from your telephone calls and emails, has her first book coming out late this summer. (We hope by the NGH conference.) It is a fantasy work, about Archangels that many of you will enjoy. “That reminds me of a story…” It runs in the family!
Well, I will write more in the next e-zine. Until then use your skills. The world needs you.
I hope to see you on the road to a happy destiny!
William Horton, Psy.D. CAC CMI
Techniques and Tips:
Inventing a New You; The Ideal Self
Many of you ask how I come up with new techniques, or new twists on old ones. Well, it usually starts with someone asking for a specific goal, and if no techniques seem to work, it is time to reinvent, or stylize something that does.
A few trainings ago, someone told me they really did not like where their life was and would really like to totally reinvent themselves.
I thought, “Cool, so, how does one reinvent who they are?
What are examples of people who have done this?
How did they do it?
What would be your evidence you had reinvented who you are?
What techniques do we already have that could help?
What else do we need?”
I would like you all to consider this and let me know what you think and what you would do. Next time, I will answer the questions (the way I saw it) and give you the steps I have been tweaking for awhile now. They seem to work, and I am refining it. I always remember, we are all works in progress, as is our art!
Theory into Practice:
Who Leads Your Life? The Rational and the Irrational
By Vincenzo Fanelli
Taken from “The Enteronauta” published by Vincenzo Fanelli on www.acam.it
Some time ago I begun by chance some researches about the unconscious that have literally upset my personal conception of life, reality and our nature of human beings. (...)
(...) I still didn’t know, but I had begun a neverending journey, with no precise destination. I have always been stirred by all the mechanisms of our mind, above all by the ones who remain unconscious, together with the hidden potentialities that we ignore for the rest of our life. Throughout this journey I discovered that we are made of two parts, one rational and the other unconscious. The first one is rational, sequential, mathematical and organizes the word…is the part exalted by the western society. The second one is emotional, irrational, intuitive and creative, it lives in a world of dreams, imprisoned in a cage because in our society there is no place for her.
The rational part finds itself in the left part of our brain, the emotional in the right one. The two parts are theoretically but not really divided, because in this case we couldn’t live. This distinction means that most of the rational functions take place in the left part of our brain, while the emotional ones take place in the right one. We could make use of another representation, the one of Freud who compared our mind to an iceberg where we see only the tip. We think that this part is the whole of it…but there is an “hidden” part, ten times bigger. Which of these two parts is important for the iceberg to move into the sea? The visible part, on which the wind blows, or the hidden part, moved by the sea current? No need to say that the last one is the right answer. This is the reason why Freud compared the human mind to an iceberg: we see only the rational part and we ignore the existence of the emotional one. And for the same reason we think that the logic is important for the course of our life. But if it’s so, why sometimes we take decisions that we can’t bring to a conclusion? For example, I decide I don’t want to see anymore someone who causes me suffering, but the day after I am “pushed” to call this person. Or I decide not to eat chocolate anymore but two hours after I’m eating Nutella. Have you ever asked yourself who’s really driving the bus?
As for the iceberg, the emotional part leads our inconscious and gives the direction to follow. I propose to you another metaphor so that you can better understand this mechanism. One of my teachers compared the unconscious to an elephant and the logical part to a fly on its head. They are in the jungle and the fly sees a mountain of sugar. “Hey – says the fly – turn right, there is a mountain of sugar!”. But the elephant doesn’t pay attention to what the fly says, because he is thirsty and has just seen a stream. The insect insists but without success because the elephant won’t turn right.
Do you consult your elephant before taking a decision? Or do you act like the fly?
The problems begin when we clash with the unconscious and insist to realize plans in contrast with what we need. In this case, our emotional part gives us “warning signs”: migraine, tiredness , stress, pain, without any logical explanation. If we insist with our way of behaving, the right part sends clearer and more incisive messages: for example, we can fall down and hurt ourselves. A doctor called Groddeck asserted that some illnesses or accidents are messages of our inconscious exhorting us not to follow that direction.
One of my teachers compared the struggle between conscious and inconscious to a battle between a little state armed with blowguns and a state armed with nuclear warheads. The first one is destined to be defeated, but if the struggle goes on the result will be selfdestruction.
The struggle is never a good solution while the alliance has many potentialities in itself.
We try to explain our life with the logic, to reach our goals following the rationality , trying to organize our life in a mathematical way. But things don’t work. Often we sense choices that we should make with no calculation. But because they are illogic we put them apart and take decisions that don’t follow our intuition. Only in a second time we realize that our inconscious was right and that the logical choice in this case was the wrong one. “How can it be” you could say “that the inconscious knows in advance the results of some events?”. The answer is simple: your emotional part translates thousands of information while the emotional one limits oneself to some “pieces” of information. Our inconscious can perceive the variaton of humidity and of the temperature in the room where you are reading this book and at the same time can perceive what’s happening in another room. This means that it has a general vision of events, more complete if compared to the one of the rational part. Let’s make a practical example: did you ever meet someone who made to you any kind of logical conversation but who didn’t persuade you? You felt like a sensation of scepticism! But sensations are irrational and you didn’t follow your instict. Only in a second time you realized that your sensation was right. Did it ever happen to you?
When we communicate with other people, when we speak, our unconscious translates at once the gesturing of our interlocutor and discovers any possible contradiction. It tries to advise us through a sensation of suspicion, but we are too busy to listen to the logical part, to its words. The rational part can lie, the emotional one can’t! In other words, we listen to the fly and not to the elephant, the “driver of the bus”.
The better solution is the alliance between the two parts, it would be a mistake being too emotional. If we have a rational part, there is a reason. When we have to take a decision I always advise to use this technique: to analize and to gather the more information you can about the problem to solve (left part of the brain); then to use the intuition (right part of the brain).
vincenzofanelli@libero.it
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