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The Way We Think & The Way We Speak

I did this one paragraph for myself about three years ago and I still remember this paragraph.  It had such an emotional impact on me because when I wrote it, I wrote it with such specificity.  I was choosing to go into the emotional state of when I would be an old man.  I was walking on my mountain – I own a mountain – and I was walking barefoot through my forest. And it went something like this: I’m walking down my favorite path and I feel the wind blowing through my hair (my hair was really long) as my hair tapped against my back and I stroked my beard as I walked and I felt the mud, cool and wet, squishing through my toes through the autumn leaves that have just fallen.  And off to the right of my should I saw and then I heard a red cardinal singing on a leafless branch.  And in that moment I felt the stillness of my soul.  And I was in the perfection of having the moment where there was no past, there was no future, there was just the perfection of that moment.  And that’s truly how I’m choosing to be as an old man.  As I think about that moment it associates me into that emotion of being completely here.

Now you have an outcome that you’ve been moving toward and you are feeling now the outcome that you’ve been working with for most of the weekend.  I am inviting you to write a paragraph or two about a morning or an afternoon or an evening that you experience as your outcome.  What will you see?  What do you hear?  What are you now feeling?  What are you smelling?  What are you tasting, having already realized your outcome?  Take a moment.  Write one, two or three paragraphs in explicit detail, sensorialy rich, explaining a moment already having achieved your outcome.  Please do that now.

Okay, this is page 98 for those of you who are into Neville.  Feeling a state produces the state.  Oh, I could just stop right there.  Feeling a state produces that state.  The part you play on the world stage is determined by your conception of yourself.  By feeling your wish fulfilled and quietly relaxing into sleep, you cast yourself in a star role to be played on earth tomorrow.  And while asleep you are rehearsed and you are instructed in your part.  The acceptance of the end automatically wills the means of realization.  Make no mistake about this.  If as you prepare for sleep you do not consciously feel yourself into the state of your answered wish, then you take with you into the chamber of her who conceived you, the sum total of your reactions and feelings of your waking day.  And while asleep you will be instructed in the manner in which they will be expressed tomorrow.  You will rise believing that you are a free agent with free will, not realizing that every action and event of the day is predetermined by your concept of your self as you fell asleep.  Your only freedom then is your freedom of reaction.  You are free to choose how you will feel and react to your day’s drama but the drama, the action, events and circumstances of the day, have already been determined.  Unless you consciously and purposely define the attitude of your mind with which you go to sleep, you unconsciously go to sleep in a composite attitude of mind made up of all feelings and reactions of the day.  Every reaction makes a subconscious impression and unless counteracted by opposite and more dominant feeling is the cause of your future actions.  Ideas enveloped in feeling are created actions.  Use your divine right wisely. Through your ability to think and to feel you have dominion over all creation.

{Tomorrow is Mind Mapping}

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The Way We Think

It’s in the details

Specificity is a tenet of the NLP model of communication. The specifics of your speech produce the emotions you feel. When you speak with specificity, it awakens your emotions so that your subconscious can more accurately manifest your spoken word. When your spoken word is aligned with your heartfelt emotions, creation begins.

Have you ever sat in an audience and listened to a presenter speak from a place that was not connected to his/her heart? How did you feel when that happened? When a presenter speaks distinctly from the heart, what does it do to you? What would happen if every word you uttered was distinctly from your heart? How much more impact would you have as you walked in the world?

Of course, it’s easy to be “clever” with words. But being clever and speaking wholeheartedly are not necessarily the same thing. Maybe you know this already. How often have you held back in your speech because you sensed that such heartfelt words would have too powerful a result?

Your thoughts and your language are creative. As you think and speak, you produce emotions, and those emotions create new neuro-networks in the brain and throughout the body. The electrical charge from your thoughts will follow the path of least resistance, and through classical conditioning and repetition, those thoughts and repeated emotional states form deeper and more complex neuro-networks until they harden into your character. This is how you reinvent yourself physiologically over and over again. Using specific perceptual patterns unique to you, you have habitually thought, languaged, imagined, and felt “you” into existence.

This can go on forever, but it’s your choice “who” you will create next. When you are alert to the “specifics,” you stay emotionally connected to your language. Emotions are the key to creating new ways of creating the “you” that you desire to become. Vague, generalized language is a form of fear and does not produce enough specificity for your subconscious to manifest your word. Your subconscious mind interprets feeling as fact. By asking simple questions such as Who? When? What? Where? With whom? and How? you can produce the emotions that will manifest desired outcomes.

Stop speaking about the past and focus on your outcomes for the future using specifics. Experience the feeling of your dream already manifested. This will bring your future to now, manifesting your destiny with every word you speak.

Conversely, the less you use outcome specific language and the more you disconnect emotionally from your dream, the more you will distance yourself from your divine right to create your life from your heartfelt desires. When you speak with specificity, you begin to feel more deeply, more accurately, more powerfully. Specificity drives the emotional body. Once you understand how it is you create and what filters you are using to interpret the world, you can change how you create and filter in the future. You can manifest choice. This is the goal for all practitioners of HNLP because scarcity of choice is the greatest source of pain you will ever feel. And abundance of choice will be your greatest joy. Choose your language carefully.

Love & Light

Gary De Rodriguez

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