The Mind/Body Medical Connection to Self-Hypnosis

The Mind/Body Medical Connection to Self-Hypnosis

Medical science is finding new evidence every day that the mind and body are connected when it comes to healing and preventing medical conditions from controlling pain of cancer to overeating. Self-hypnosis can be an effective tool to change your life for the better, whether it’s bad habits you want to replace with good ones or a severe illness you want to better control or eliminate.

There is a deep, present connection between the subconscious mind and the body. During self-hypnosis, you’re given the opportunity to make each listen to the other and respond how you want them to. Self-hypnosis has now become a legitimate method of helping to ease pain, fight the side effects of cancer treatment, reduce stress and anxiety and a host of other disorders.

The process of self-hypnosis is de-mystified as you come to know more about how the process works. Much has been written about self-hypnosis methods and studies are being conducted. It’s a fact that any medical condition, mental condition, bad habit or disorder that you want to correct can be helped by the power of self-hypnosis.

During the “altered state of consciousness” that self-hypnosis brings to your mind and body, you have the innate ability to maneuver and mold your idea or image into anything you want to become or correct.

Some medical uses for self-hypnosis include:

·         IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) – Much research and studies have been conducted on the use of self-hypnosis for the treatment and relief of IBS and the results have all been positive.

·         Replace bad habits – Some bad habits such as smoking, alcoholism and others are very bad for your continued health. Through self-hypnosis methods you can learn to replace these habits with ones that are more conducive to remaining healthy.

·         Psycho-physiological issues – Bed wetting or thumb-sucking in children can be addressed through self-hypnosis as well as eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia.

·         Stress and anxiety – These maladies can wreak havoc with your health, but with the help of self-hypnosis, they can be controlled effectively.

·         Pain – Any type of pain, ranging from migraine headaches or chronic illnesses such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or as a result of a surgical procedure can be alleviated with self-hypnosis techniques.

·         Seizures and Rheumatoid Arthritis – These two debilitating disorders can be helped very effectively with self-hypnosis. As you learn to control the messages you send to your conscious mind, you’ll experience less pain and problems.

Sometimes, because of old myths and misconceptions that are associated with self-hypnosis, it’s difficult for physicians to convince patients of the mind/body connection to help with problems or disorders you have. As more studies are provided, self-hypnosis is likely to become a “go to” procedure for many doctors and patients.

Until next time…

John Soriano, MS, CH

www.breakfreewithease.com

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Using NLP Swish Pattern to Break Bad Behavior/Bad Habits

Using NLP Swish Pattern to Break Bad Behavior/Bad Habits

NLP can help abolish many bad or unwanted habits and behaviors, such as smoking, overeating, nail biting, etc.

An effective NLP technique for breaking bad habits is the Swish pattern. It is highly recommended for breaking unwanted habits. It works by changing your focus just when you are about to drop into the old habit unconsciously, putting the newly-introduced desirable habit into your conscious mind as a substitute, thus changing your focus and making you consciously aware of what you are about to do.

Note that whenever desiring to break a habit, it is very important to substitute a more desirable habit in its place. Trying to break a bad habit without substituting some desirable alternative in its place leaves a void, and the unconscious may try to replac  the void by bringing back the old bad habit or another unwanted behavior in its place.

The Swish pattern has different variations; here are two simple ways of executing it:

Method One

1st Step: You start out visualizing yourself performing the habit or behavior you want to break. You may also want to include a specific trigger that may occur before you break into this bad habit in your mental image.

2nd Step: Now visualize yourself performing a substitute habit that is positive and productive--something that you can easily slip in as an alternative to the bad habit.

3rd Step: Keep the two images separated from one another--either side by side in your mind, or you can have one picture behind the other.

4th Step: Envision the image of yourself engaged in the good (substitute) habit, and have this picture quickly fly into the image of you doing the unwanted habit.

5th Step: See the unwanted image actually smash into and through the bad-habit image. Imagine the bad-habit image shattering into a thousand pieces like shards of glass.

6th Step: It can actually be very effective to make a sound out loud, a “swoosh” or “swish” sound, each time you envision the two images colliding and crashing, and see the good- habit image now replace the bad-habit image.

7th Step: It’s a good idea to repeat this process at least once a day, or more at

first until the good habit begins to become ingrained and you are no longer unconsciously performing the bad habit, but are now always aware that you have a choice.

This is one simple and effective method. It’s like having an angel that appears,

gently changing your focus and reminding you if you start to revert back into the bad

habit.

Method Two

Another even simpler Swish variation for breaking bad habits goes like this: Start out

visualizing yourself performing the habit or behavior you want to break. Again, you can add in the trigger that occurs just before you perform your unwanted habit. Then visualize yourself performing your substitute habit that is a good, productive replacement.

Now see yourself pushing the image of the bad habit away while you perform the replacement habit. Imagine an image of yourself in a very positive state. You imagine starting to perform the unwanted habit, see yourself stopping the behavior, and snap your fingers. The last step is to visualize yourself in the positive state doing something that affirms you have broken the bad habit, such as performing your substitute habit instead. Practice this a number of times until you automatically do this sequence before performing the old habit, and you should begin to find yourself choosing to perform the replacement habit now instead of the old habit, and feeling really good about yourself as you execute the new habit.

Until next time…

John Soriano, MS, CH

www.breakfreewithease.com

Top 6 Benefits of NLP in Business

How can neuro-linguistic programming help your business? NLP has come a long way since its inception in the 1970s. In the 40 years since, businesses have learned how to tweak certain aspects of NLP to generate more sales and profits, keep customers happy, and communicate more effectively. There are a few ways to do this. Train everyone in your business to practice and understand neuro-linguistic programming, and you will enjoy the following 6 benefits of NLP for business.

1 - NLP Helps Enhance Communication at All Levels

At its root, NLP is an approach to communication. Nonverbal communication cues, eye movement patterns and other unconscious actions take place when people communicate, think and remember. Understanding what someone's unspoken language can tell you about their mindset will improve the efficiency of communication throughout your business, and with your customers and prospects.

2 - NLP Allows You to Easily Copy the Successful Efforts of Other Businesses

Neuro-linguistic programming founders John Grinder and Richard Bandler explain that, with proper NLP training, "If any human being can do anything, so can you." This is because neuro-linguistic programming teaches you to understand how successful individuals and businesses work and communicate, even subconsciously. You can then model your behavior after them, using specific NLP strategies, to re-create those successes in your own business.

3 - NLP Gives Your Sales Staff Mind Reading Abilities

To say that neuro-linguistic programming can allow your salespeople to read minds is exaggerating just a bit. However, by understanding physical cues and lateral eye movements, your sales staff can cater the questions they ask and the information they deliver to meet your prospect or client where they are mentally. Understanding how a prospective customer feels about the sales experience while it is going on, and what they are thinking, makes it easier to close more sales.

4 - NLP Improves Negotiation Skills at All Levels

In business, you understand that life is one big negotiation. You negotiate with your employees everyday, with vendors, with competitors, with marketers, with advertising firms, your salespeople, and on and on and on. Since NLP helps you better understand and command any human interaction, the negotiation skills of everyone in your business become more persuasive and effective.

5 - NLP Boosts Morale

Imagine that everyone in your business, from your CEO and founder down to an entry-level employee, knows how to communicate effectively. They all know how to make themselves clearly understood, as well as fully understanding a coworker or senior executive when they communicate in person, in print, in video and on audio. When everyone understands what everyone else is saying, including the nonverbal cues that people give off, your business workplace is much more enjoyable.

6 - NLP is the Perfect Customer Service Tool

Whether customers contact your business to complain, to praise or to offer suggestions, neuro-linguistic programming lets you understand what is really on their minds. As you probably know, many times a customer complaints they are really responding to other stimuli. They are having a bad day, they just lost their job, they are having relationship problems or some other negative occurrence has upset them. When your customer care team can pick up on spoken and unspoken physical cues, they know better how to keep your customers and clients happy, and coming back for life.

John Soriano, MS, CH

www.breakfreewithease.com

Can EFT Help With Anxiety?

Many people claim to get relief from anxiety and stress using Emotional Freedom Techniques (tapping). So is there validity in using EFT to help with anxiety? You decide for yourself as you read on.

You might have something causing you anxiety, something painful or a pressing situation in your life, and as you talk about that issue while tapping on the various points along the meridians, your amygdala in your brain, which is responsible for initiating the fight-or-flight response, gets the message that it is safe to be in a state of calm, that all is well at the moment.

Now let's examine a case study: Alexa is a 22-year-old woman who lives in New York and has landed her dream job in the fashion industry. Everything was going quite well for her until she experienced a serious health setback in her final semester of college. She became infected with a bacteria strain that put her in a coma lasting five days. Since her immune system is now compromised, she is easily prone to infections and sickness, and her level of fear and anxiety has her seriously considering walking away from her job to return home to Florida where her family, friends and support system are.

Alexa is having great difficulty coming to peaceful terms with her past and states that she doesn't know who she is anymore.

Alexa works with a life coach trained in EFT. The coach has Alexa repeat some EFT phrases, such as "Even though I don't know who I am anymore, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. I'm scared to face the world, " etc. As the coach progresses on, while continuing to tap on the sequence of points, she moves to offering a different tack, having Alexa speak about being a survivor and that she can opt for new diets, new ways of living, and with her health it is possible to achieve her dreams and be fully supported.

They both take a deep breath at the end and the coach inquiries about Alexa's anxiety level on a scale of zero to ten, where zero is no anxiety and ten is the highest level of anxiety. Where previously, Alexa rated her anxiety at a level of nine, she now states that it is at four.

Alexa is still advised to continue doing the tapping technique on her own at home, because there is a great deal of trauma within her as a result of her illness that still needs to be purged or resolved. Both feel they have made good progress with this first session, and that tapping can heal Alexa's anxiety and trauma.

What are your thoughts? Feel free to share….

Until next time…..

John Soriano 

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A Background of Modeling in NLP

To model exceptional performance behavior requires observing and laying down the

underlying processes inherent in that behavior. It requires breaking down a complex system or a series of events into chunks small enough to be understood and reproduced. 

What is the purpose of behavior modeling?

The point is to create a useful map or model of the behavior for the purpose of reproducing or copying it by anyone who may want to. By identifying the individual elements that make up the essence of the behavior, in a practical sense a person can reproduce the desired response or outcome. The model must give a description of the necessary thoughts and actions needed to achieve results that are similar.

The development of Neuro-Linguistic Programming came about from the modeling of the thinking processes and behaviors of humans. It starts with learning about and understanding how the brain operates (neuro), and analyzing non-verbal and verbal language patterns (linguistic).Then a sequential set of strategies or programs (programming) teaches how to transfer the skills to others.

Richard Bandler began to model particular language patterns and behaviors that he

observed from Fritz Perls (Gestalt therapy founder) and Virginia Satir (one of the founders of family therapy and systemic therapy), and, later, the founder of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Milton H. Erickson, M.D.

The initial techniques of NLP came out of the language patterns and body gestures of

the very talented and skillful therapists noted by Bandler and also observed by John Grinder, a linguist who later teamed up with Bandler. The “magic” that these exceptional therapists were able to achieve fit into a structure that could be understood, transmitted through communication, and executed by ordinary people, not just the master therapists who originated these triumphs. This became the foundation for NLP.

Grinder observed Bandler at work one day and noted how Bandler was able to influence people with his use of language. Grinder had a sense that something systematic was occuring. Neither could explicitly describe the process. Bandler knew he had somehow picked it up from Perls and Satir. Grinder realized that if Bandler could teach him to do what he (Bandler) was doing, he could then put the process into a formula that could be articulated and copied.

The tools and techniques developed within NLP identify and lay out specific patterns

of human verbal and non-verbal interactions--fundamental characteristics of how people express themselves and behave. One of the most basic objectives of NLP’s use of modeling is to put these observable key behaviors--verbal and non-verbal conduct--into appropriate and actionable steps that produce desired results. 

It is not to distill the modeling process down to one “essential” or “correct” characterization of the cognitive process of any particular individual. Rather, it is to enable us to create a map whereby we can apply in an effective and advantageous way, certain strategies that we’ve modeled. The primary goal is to enable us to be more effective in our interactions and dealings.

The exactness of the map--how closely it follows reality--is less important than how useful it becomes. The modeled strategies may be used to achieve some purpose that is constructive and functional, and it may be similar or different from the initial use of the model.  

John Soriano, MS

NLP Master Practitioner

www.breakfreeeasier.com