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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So let’s just close your eyes for a moment.  Let’s just take three breaths together, deep inhale in, relaxed exhale out.  The waking 2/3 of your life on earth ever collaborates or bears witness to your subconscious impressions.  The actions and events of your day are simply effects.  They are not causes.  Free will is only freedom of choice.  Choose ye this day whom ye shall serve is your freedom to choose the kind of emotion you assume.  The expression of the emotion is the secret of your subconscious.  Your subconscious receives impressions only through the feelings of man and woman and in a way known only to itself gives these impressions form and expression.  The actions of man and woman are determined by their subconscious impressions.  His or her illusion of free will, his or her belief in freedom of action, is but ignorance of the causes which make them act.  They think themselves free because they have forgotten the link between themselves and the event.  Man and woman awake is under compulsion to express their subconscious impressions.  If in the past they unwisely impress themselves then let them begin to change their thoughts and their feelings for only as they do so will they change their world.  Do not waste one moment in regret for to think feelingly of the mistakes of your past is to reinfect yourself.  Let the dead bury their dead.  Turn from appearances now and assume the feeling that would be yours were you already the one you’ve wished to be. 

I’m going to talk a little bit about the NLP model of communication yet once again because I firmly believe if people truly understood and embodied this model, the planet would instantaneously shift and change – if we understood this model.  The information comes into the five senses and the secret of whether we create heaven or hell is in our filters.  Our filters consist of our memories and if those memories are loaded with negative, unresolved emotions we will have a knee-jerk response to the events coming toward us in the now.  There is a process in NLP called a trans-derivational search.  That is a word that describes the process that happens in how we sort our reality.  The information comes in through the five senses.  Our mind automatically does this thing called an trans-derivational search.  Where our mind goes back into our files of experience to bring forward a strategy that this event reminds us of to assist us in interacting with this event.  So if we have a ton of emotions in the past that are linked to specific memories and an event comes toward us that is reminiscent of those memories or that reminds us of those memories, we will bring forward to the experience now a whole luggage full of unresolved negative emotions and over react.  How many of you have over reacted in the past?  How many of you have been over reacted to?  And you’re going, ‘how can this person possibly have this reaction to what I just did?  It was so benign.’   Why do you think that is?  Their trans-derivational search process, whatever you did or didn’t do, triggered off something from their past and when they perceived through the distortion of their unresolved experiences from their past, they projected onto you the unresolved events back there and overreacted toward you. 

How many of you have said, ‘I think that you’re not in relationship with me.  You’re in relationship to your other three past lovers.’  Meaning you’re bringing so much negative emotion into this experience, it’s just not this experience.  It’s stuff back there.  How many of you have been in relationship with people when you feel like you’re their parent because of the unresolved wounds from the past?  So it seems logical to me that, if we are going to shift the filters, that we get to do something with the emotions of the past.  Is that true?  In order for us to sustain emotional states that are optimal for outcome, for imprinting the subconscious mind, it’s very challenging if we’ve got a ton of dialog going in here about how we are victims of the past.  If we’re carrying a lot of negative emotions around with us that are unresolved it will be very challenging to stay emotionally resourceful enough to be in the imagination of your outcome.  What we’re going to do this morning is work with a variety of different NLP processes.  They truly are tools for life.  Once you learn them they are literally keys for your mind.  You can take them and utilize them to the highest degree possible and run with them and change your life.  My highest outcome is that you take all the tools and really work them.

More to come tomorrow

Love & Light

Gary De Rodriguez

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Pyramid of Time

 In September,  I gathered my Master Mind group from Australia around a fire tonight here in beautiful Santa Fe under a star filled sky. Each one of us prepared to work with a Lakota elder, Navajo fire keeper and a Cherokee teacher.  Tomorrow is going to be a big day for us all as we enter the sweat lodge and recieve the powerful teachings of these Native American elders. As I have worked with my group for nearing a year now,  I have witnessed many of my group being wounded in a similar way.  In fact most of the coaching clients I have had the honor to work with, have been wounded in the same way. 
This common thread is our finances. 
So many of us are experiencing trading time for money and remaining a slave to the grind.  My clients who have experienced this issue has stated to me that they desire to be free from worry and live from abundance while contributing back to others.
I have a vision that there is a new paradigm arising in our world that is lifting up the concept of conscious capitalism.  A way of doing business and thinking about business that supports our capacity to leave a legacy of good based in our innate humanity. This movement of creating more humanity in business, establishes a business culture where people desire to belong and with systems for paying it forward in our communities.
I view each one of us as an entrepreneur. A person capable of creating wealth through their knowledge, with the ability to create positive impact on people and communities they work with.  The concept of becoming a entrepreuner is a learned system with internal methodologies and forms of thinking as well as external strategies for action.  The objective being: to create enough wealth passively so we can begin paying it forward.  
Sounds good right?  But so few people know HOW to get what is in their heads into a profit center.
I believe too many of us live from worry, financial fear and as a consequence we radiate these emotions into our world and unfortunately receive the evidence of what we believe and feel to be real in our everyday lives.
My dream, is to change people’s relationship to money and possibility by breaking through the Inner Self Sabotaging beliefs and strategies from our past.  I desire to provide proven strategies for creating passive forms of income from what you know and turning that knowledge into a saleable product over the internet. 
I have joined with my good friend Stefanie Hartman who is the premier authority on internet strategies for turning ideas into a profit center.  We are on a mission.
Our governments and religions can’t fix or provide the necessary assistance our communities require, but conscious entrepreneurs with heart and a mindset of knowledge and skill can. 
You may not be ready to reach outside your comfort zone but then again this my be the pivot point you require to turn your life in a new direction. 
I know we all require to heal the wound of lack in our lives and it is a two fold path. 
One part of the equation is to do the inner work.  The other is to know the strategies that will guarantee results. 

 
Whatever your current situation is, whether you know the time has come to take your knowledge and begin the emergence of the Enlightened Entrepreneur or continue on the Path you are currently following. The bottom line for me is the importance of contributing back into our communites and the people who we are inclined to help. Pay it forward with a smile or a random act of kindness; pay it forward with a monetary contribution no matter how small. 
Be the Angel you have come to be.  

Love & Light

Gary De Rodriguez

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