February 20, 2009
Harnessing the Power or Your Mind
Time & The Human Mind
I have been asked to re-post some great tools for changing your life!
Do you desire to be more than what you’ve been? Do you know you are capable of more? Do you know what path you would need to take to be more of what you want of what you are desirous to be?
What is NLP? NLP is the modeling of excellence. It is the discovery and duplication of patterns of excellence of successful people for the purpose of enhancing lives by teaching these patterns and strategies of excellence.
NLP came into existence during the early 1970′s out of the curiosity of John Grinder and Richard Bandler. These men began a modeling project of three very famous therapists. They chose to model these therapists because all three were creating tremendous changes in the human condition outside the Freudian and Jungian Models and each therapist used totally different styles of therapy.
They are Virginia Satire, who developed the family form of therapy, Milton Erickson, who developed the greatest form of hypnosis and the know-how of working with the unconscious mind known today as Ericksonian Hypnosis, and Fritz Pearls, who discovered Gestalt Therapy. All three had an extremely different approach to the style of the therapy they did and yet, they were all very successful.
John Grinder and Richard Bandler chose to observe these therapists because of their successes. The interesting observation was that they had success in what they did and how they did therapy without an absolute understanding of the processes they were using. In fact, Milton Erickson wrote a letter to John Grinder and Richard Bandler and thanked them for explaining to him the processes he used and how he has such success.
These therapists were exquisitely good at intuiting and guiding client’s problems to resolution. They had what is called unconscious competency. Have you ever had unconscious competency in something? Unconscious competency means you are “just” good at what ever it is you know how to do without having to put much thought to it. Perhaps it’s a sport, math, or driving a car that comes natural to you. It is doing something with little or no effort.
NLP is applicable in sports, business, therapy, learning, educational fields, etc. It’s broad applications cross the context of all of the human experience. Why is this? It is literally the owner’s manual for the human mind. If you are going to tune up a car, program a VCR, put one of those difficult pieces of furniture together, you would be required to have some directional manual, would you not? Have you ever attempted to do one of these activities and experience frustration?
Here we are in the most complex organism on this planet called the human body. The human body contains more neurological possibilities then every grain of sand on every beach on this planet. No one has ever come along and said, “Would you like to know how to use it?” How did you create your unique beliefs, attitudes, and perspectives? How did you encode your memory to instantly retrieve them? How did you design the strategies you use to either motivate or sabotage? How did you do it? If you had an owner’s manual that could show you how, could you fix it, could you adjust it? You could!
Now every great thinker has consistently said that there’s only one thing to do here and that is to know ‘you. In all of our relationships, what we are really involved with is a deep intrinsic relationship with ourselves, in the context of another person.
Have you ever been in a relationship with anyone? Have you ever thought about what makes a relationship work? It IS your relationship with you. It IS your sense of identity, your boundaries, your negotiation skills, your ability to love rather than be afraid, and your ability to express rather than harbor and resent. Your ability to be in relationship with others is your key to financial, spiritual, emotional, and mental well-being. Your ability to know yourself will assist you in every context of life.
In the past, I lived in a lot of procrastination. When I say “the past”, I mean anything even a nano-second in the past. What I’ve learned from a whole securitous pipe of experiences is that the place of most change is when you’re really terrified, but you take the leap anyway, you just step out into the unknown. Have you ever done an action over and over and expect a different outcome then the time before? Did you know that the definition of insanity is: doing the same thing consistently and expecting a different outcome, a different result?
One of my most favorite movies is “The Last Crusade”, where the main character is searching for the Holy Grail out of the love for his father. He comes to this place after passing through this tunnel of slicing swords and spiders and he arrived to a precipice where he couldn’t even see the bottom. He closed his eyes and remembered a legend that taught him that when he chooses to step out in pure faith, he’d be supported. So he stepped out into thin air. As he did, a path appeared before him. He made the choice to move through his fear by taking that step, that leap of faith, right through the fear.
Love & Light
Gary De Rodriguez