I did this one years ago, enjoy!
https://youtu.be/KQWqDYsygnE
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Monday, November 28, 2016
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
Friday, November 18, 2016
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
Monday, November 14, 2016
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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