Spiritual NLP Blog | Neuro-Linguistic Programming | Change Your Life | Gary de Rodriguez, Dallas, TX

The emotionally shattered young woman who was literally carried into Gary De Rodriguez’ office by friends did not want to live.  Weeks before, she and her fiancé were kayaking in a glacial cave in Alaska when an ice stalactite broke loose from the cave ceiling and struck the man on the head, killing him.

 ”When Juno died,” recalls Sue Harley, now of Denver, Colorado, “all my dreams and hopes, my whole future, died with him.”

De Rodriguez, founder of the Santa Fe, NM based Life Design International Training Center and creator of the Life Design Trainings, had a reputation for helping people use the untapped power of their mind to heal their body and spirit.  For Harley, De Rodriguez was her last chance to live.

 ”I immediately knew I could trust him when I told him the story of Juno’s death, and he cried right along with me,” Harley said.  “Then he helped me find my way back from total despair through a timeline process by showing me my future.”  Through this gentle, powerful method of harnessing and directing the power of the mind, Harley said, she began to see more and more exciting reasons to keep on living.  In the new future she was mentally creating, she saw an attractive man with an accent; children; a new home.  By imagining these mental pictures, and feeling the joyful emotions that accompanied them, Harley began to embrace her future life with enthusiasm.

 Six months after completing her work with De Rodriguez, Harley said she met a cute man from Australia – and the future she designed for herself became real.

 As astounding as Harley’s physical and spiritual recovery was, De Rodriguez says each of us holds the key for such dramatic change in our minds.

 “We choose our heaven or our hell inside of our own neurology,” De Rodriguez explains.  “The pictures we’re mentally contemplating, the words we’re speaking in our internal dialogue, and the emotions we’re producing all become our reality and determine any limits to our success.”

  De Rodriguez speaks from experience.  He traveled a winding and uphill spiritual path to overcome the hurts of his past – child abuse, juvenile drug addiction, paralyzing depression, the agony of seeing friends waste away from AIDS.  Fifteen years meditating three hours a day in an ashram in India didn’t heal the hurt or catapult him into spiritual bliss. Studying and teaching positive disciplines like “A Course In Miracles” helped, but didn’t fix everything.  It wasn’t until De Rodriguez discovered the mental management tools of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) that he was able to completely release the old pains and refocus his life.  

 ”Realize that the brain is a computer,” De Rodriguez explains, “and NLP is very much the owner’s manual for the human body.  It teaches us how we created our beliefs, our values, our individual perceptions and the foundation of our personality.”  Through NLP technologies, says De Rodriguez, we can see how some aspects of our personalities cut to the very root of our ability to be successful. When we understand how we created those flawed thinking patterns, we can learn how to redirect them.

 Deeply committed to helping to raise world consciousness, De Rodriguez built a complete spiritual element on top of basic NLP to create Life Design Trainings – his system of using the mind-body connection to achieve excellence in every aspect of life.  His unique approach is being embraced by people from all walks of life, including professionals seeking to establish a more balanced and successful career path.

 Los Angeles Attorney Sylvia Esquivel said De Rodriguez helped her gain a better understanding of how differently each person sees the world based on their past experiences.

 ”Once you understand this of yourself,” she says, “you can understand that other people have their own perspectives which are not right or wrong, but which are or may be different.  Becoming aware of this alone is priceless — and it helps in releasing one’s point of view of ‘I’m right, he is wrong’ in personal, business or other types of interactions.”

 For a successful San Diego Realtor who participated in De Rodriguez’ 12-day Life Design Training Practitioner certification program, the biggest benefit was a dramatic shift in his ability to solve problems.

 ”If I got stuck on something, I had lots of different options I didn’t know about before,” he said.  As a result, the Realtor says, things that previously would bother him no longer have power, and he’s more confident, happier and able to build instant rapport with prospective clients.

 ”Where most training programs fail is they never teach the individual how to manage their own internal state,” says Rodriguez.  “They put on blanket Band-Aids – ‘this technique is for diversity, and this technique is for communicating.’ But that training is all about your external behavior – and what’s happening internally is what’s driving the external behavior. 

 ”What they’re doing is putting a Band-Aid over the already established ACT.  They’re trying to shift behavior at the behavioral level, and you can NEVER shift behavior at the behavioral level.  You must use the power of the mind to permanently shift behaviors.”

 Psychotherapist Adam Colson interacts daily with homeless and destitute people. 

“A huge challenge in my work is establishing rapport with down-on-their-luck individuals, and working with them to shift their mental outlook and create well-focused goals,” Colson says.  “I’ve studied many different forms of therapy, and Life Design Training techniques help people change their behaviors more quickly and effectively than anything else I’ve tried.”

 “If people had just the basic mental tools,” said De Rodriguez, “they could start improving their lives immediately.  Where they get into the most pain is feeling like they don’t have choices.  I desire to teach people they have the resources and choices to choose a different road, and a magnificent future.”

 For information on upcoming Life Design Training classes, visit the center’s website at www.garyderodriguez.com or call (505) 982-1980.

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Love & Light

Geetings Everyone! Below is a process I have been requested to post again to direct the sunconscious mind! (Here you have it)

This really works if you practice it faithfully.

My subconscious, please locate the origin of my beliefs and thoughts that cause me to feel it is difficult to accept and integrate new ideas and beliefs that promote positive change.

Take each and every level, layer, area, and aspect of my Being to this origin.

Analyze and resolve it perfectly with Universal truth.

Come through all generations of time and eternity, healing every incident and its appendages based on the origin. Please do it according to the Highest Good until I’m at the present – filled with light and truth, Divine peace and love, forgiveness of myself for my incorrect perceptions, forgiveness of every person, place, circumstance and event which contributed to these feelings, beliefs and thoughts.

With total forgiveness and unconditional love, I allow every physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual problem, and inappropriate behavior based on the negative origin recorded in my DNA, to transform now and forever.

I choose Being open and accepting to new ideas and beliefs that promote positive change and are congruent with my continued evolution.

I feel my body is at ease and comfortable taking in, digesting and integrating new ideas, beliefs and thoughts that promote positive change and are in line with my continued evolution.

I AM easily integrating and generalizing new ideas, beliefs, thoughts and feelings that promote continued positive change in me now.

It is done. It is healed. It is accomplished now!

Thank you, My Subconscious, for coming to my assistance and helping me achieve my full potential. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I love you and express heart-felt gratitude and appreciation to my Eternal Source of Well-Being, from whom all blessings flow.

Love & Light

Gary De Rodriguez

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Look Within

We are all embarking into a dynamic and historical new year with one remaining question in my mind: What we will make of it?

Will we embrace the future ahead of us with open arms and know that flexibility, innovation and gratitude are the pillars of our ability to dance with change.  Or will we dive into our fear and run dark images of catastrophes ahead of us.  

Our heaven or our hell all comes down to choice.  The images we run in our minds, the language we are utilizing producing emotional states and driving our behavior.

My personal approach to this New Year is that this will be the best year of my life for relationships, business and living environment.  Whenever we are faced with the unknown we require taking massive action in the direction of what we desire to achieve and believe down to our depths that it is possible.

Here’s a great quote from the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright:

“The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”  

This is a extraordinary time in history when the structures of unsustainable consumerism is re-evaluating itself and as a consequence each of us requires to look at what is really important to us individually.

I can only share with you what has surfaced for me and my choice for this New Year ahead of me.   I know that possibilities remain endless and what I will make of this year ahead of me is up to me.  The critical factor for 2009 is my attitude.  My ability to focus, stay spiritually centered and curious about the power of relationship and the conversation.

Life has speeded up and changes are occurring more rapidly than ever before.  This translated means my thoughts are manifesting faster than ever before.  Which means I can make things happen?   

Where have we been loosing our energy to create the life we desire to create?  Worry will exhaust you, and fear depresses you.  Have you taken a stand for what is really important to you?

Stay curious about the possibilities in your life and forge stronger relationships filled with authentic, powerful and nurturing conversations. The time of the lone wolf is over.

This life we lead is a collection of snapshots in time of our consciousness.  What we chose to feel, think and be in our environments and relationships.  Now is the only moment of power any of us will ever have to become the person we deeply know in our souls to be.  Be the love you are today, in your next conversation, meeting the next stranger or sitting quietly alone. Kindness requires be extending and giving freely.

When all things are taken away from us, our youth, beauty, wealth or even health we have the collection of the snap shots of our life and the emotional intentions of our hearts to know who we are. 

This life is a profound journey of discovering what we chose to value and be attached to here.  We have tasted many experiences and stayed attached to our things and ideas about who we thought we were.  Buddha said: “You go where your attachments are” The Master I had the good fortune to study with India would say: “The last image in the screen of your mind is what you have been most attached to in this life and will determine your next birth.” We can go for wealth.  We can go for God.  We can live for our families or our attempt to sustain our youthfulness but whatever we are most attached to through our life will be the guiding force for our future. 

Watch the focus of your mind and let your thoughts originate from a well of gratitude for the blessing of your life, be considerate of others, mindful of your actions and know it is time to wake up from your dream of what the culture has indoctrinated into us.  You have this one opportunity to be you.   

Be like a lotus who blossoms with its face pointing toward the light and its roots deeply anchored in the mud below the river of your life.

We are magical beings who often times forget the power we wield and the sleeping wizard that lay’s within each one of us.  We are anything but helpless victims of a world gone mad.  We can chose to be awake observers of the changes destined to occur and focused upon the future like a child awaiting Christmas morning filled with opportunity and wonder.

It is a choice. 

My invitation is to us all:  Do whatever it takes to stay in the company of people who uplift you and avoid negative, toxic relationships, start a gratitude journal and list at least five things you are grateful for daily. Meditate and at the same time take massive action to create the life and contribution you desire to create. 

Stop wasting time.  Every thought and action is determining the overall snapshot of your life.   It is the moment where you can determine what you will focus upon therefore what you are attached too. 

The culmination of your life is the culmination of what you dwelt upon most.  See, think and speak possibility.  Stay focused on where you desire to go and if you find yourself off course, utilize it as feedback not failure and re-set yourself back on track once more.  

These are the times that bring forward all the learning we have integrated through our life experience.  Let’s demonstrate our wisdom in small and large ways through choosing joy rather than fear, possibility rather than hopelessness, creativity and innovation rather than stagnation and expansion and exploration rather than contraction.

The beginning of 2009 is the year to demonstrate who you have become so your future self is alive and well today in the brilliant New Year filled with possibilities and choice.   You are the one you have been waiting for.  Happiness is not in your future it is in your NOW.

Love & Light

Gary De Rodriguez

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Time & The Human Mind

Did you know that just by simply imagining vividly, specifically, till you felt it to be real, your nervous system wouldn’t know the difference.  How many of you can terrify yourself?  How many of you can put yourself into bliss?  You do it the exact same way.  Vivid imagination, imagining it till you feel it to be real, and it becomes real for you.  How can you use this to take the chariot of your mind and direct it toward your home.  So my invitation to you is, pick up the reins and steer your horses via your language and your imagination.

Are you beginning to see that, when you begin to harness the power of the imagination and the power of your language, your life can metamorphose and truly, in my experience, whatever else I have done which has been valuable, has fallen in importance and power because I have yet in the past to clean up the thing that is consistently programming my emotional states which is my imagination and my language.  I’ve hung out naked for a week with a team of people screaming and tearing apart futons about the rage about their parents.  How much more can you do?  I’ve been celibate for 15 years eating nothing but tofu and green beans meditating 3 and a half hours a day from 3 till 6 in the morning every day for 15 years going for god.  And I’m here to say that, no matter what I have done to wake myself up, this has been the most important generative thing I have done.  Because, for me to be able to sit in meditation, in order for me to sustain an emotional state strong enough to have me get value by being able to still my mind in meditation… if my mind is running amok for 22 hours a day, what makes me think I’m going to be able to still it in 2.  This information sustains and supports everything.  This is the foundation which we are required to stand on because it is the foundation of mindfulness, of living our lives with purpose and with mindfulness.  Live your life as if every word is a prayer coming into reality because speaking is your self fulfilling prophecy. So is your imagination.  Whatever you are focused upon you are still sitting under your wishing tree and you will manifest it.  Either it is the monster will the long fangs that is a meat eater and will devour you or it is your beautiful princess or prince in a palace.  Either one – god just looks down and says Yes!  You are using your god-given ability to create.  You go for it.  That is tying the legs of your camels and then surrendering.  It’s time to do it.

We’re going to do a process called the theater of change.  It’s based on the NLP phobia technique and one of my thoughts is that we are this amazing being that has a whole series of pictures, sounds and feelings via our internal representational systems and that these internal representational systems act as drivers for much of our behavior and how we hold our reality.  What we’re going to do is we’re going to shift the pictures, sounds and feelings of your past.  It’s going to happen by partnering with me.  Any work that is ever done with a client that I do is you take 50% of the responsibility, as do I.  I will set up the environment for you to make the change and you’re the one who makes the change based upon the focus of your mind and your desire to have it be so.

So those of you who have had in the past the seemingly poor visualization skills, you actually have great visualization skills.  Just take the specific modality that you’re representing your experiences from, whether it’s kinesthetic or auditory, give a symbol to what those sounds or those feelings are and visualize that way.  Remember, the subconscious takes things very metaphorically and symbolically.  We’re going to enter a theater of your past.  You wrote the movie, you starred in it, you produced it.  You are the maker of the internal representations of your entire experience from conception to now.  You made it up.

So when you’re ready to just allow yourself to go into a more focused and concentrated state within yourself, allow your eyes to close.  Uncross your arms and your legs so the energy flows freely in your body and we’re going to go inside, deeper than you’ve gone before, allowing yourself the opportunity to begin to allow those parts of you that know how to change begin to change.  And what I’d like to suggest to your collective subconscious minds is that it now has an opportunity to begin to meet its highest prime directive by allowing the unresolved emotions from your past in a process that can be very quick and very powerful to begin to shift and change the unresolved emotions of the past in a way that is easy and comfortable, knowing that the highest prime directive of the subconscious mind is to preserve the body.  And as I speak to your collective subconscious I’d like to suggest to your subconscious to know that any stress caused by unresolved emotions is less than optimal for the human body.  So as your subconscious begins to understand the opportunity it has, your conscious mind can begin to drift, drifting to a place of focused concentration where your conscious mind can begin to let go.  That’s right.  Just letting go in a way that’s right for you.  Letting go in a way that is comfortable for you as your subconscious begins to understand the opportunity it has now.  So as your body begins to relax, allowing all the sounds you hear, the tone, the tempo of my voice, the sound of your breath entering and exiting your body, allowing yourself to feel the surface on which you’re sitting, awareness of how your hands, your arms, your legs, your feet are and allowing a sensation of just letting go and going deep, deep and even deeper into the state of awareness of the many different wonders within yourself.  And as you continue to focus your mind, imagine that you are now in a theater, a theater looking up at the screen and as you look at that screen, sitting in the theater, imagine a part of you, the observer part, the part of you that’s in control, lifts up out of that body sitting in the theater, and sits in the projection room of that theater.  And imagine now being in the projection room looking down at your body watching the screen and just breathe and be there with me in the theater of your own mind.  We’re going to review a film.  This is the film of your life.  You starred in it, you produced it, you directed it.  You’re going to edit it now.  I’d like to suggest to your subconscious mind that all of the positive learnings, all of the positive learnings from your life, is preserved in that place that you retain for such learnings.  Allowing all of those learnings beautifully and generatively contribute to your life from this point forward.  Allowing your subconscious mind through the internal representations that you have carried up to now to begin to shift and change in such a way that allows you now to have a different set of pictures, sounds and feelings which promote and produce the necessary internal representations to fulfil your life purpose in the optimum manner, according to your destiny. 

{More tomorrow Please Join Me}

Love & Light

Gary De Rodriguez

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