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

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

Comments(1)

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

Comments(0)