Boom De Ya Da!

Imagine if you played this in your brain... everyday when you woke up!

Have fun being Boom-de-ya-da today!

How to ruin a bad memory

Ever have something happen to you that you wish had never happened? Something you feel bad about regularly? Something you can't get over?

This post is for you. The method I'm going to describe ruins the neuropathways you've built to feel bad in whenever you think of that situation. So that you can actually see the humour in it.

This can also work with anything you want to stop thinking about in the same way.

First test the memory. think about this thing and see if it's triggering bad feelings in you immediately. See the picture and hear the sounds, run the movie of this bad experience. Now if you're feeling bad that's great, this is exactly what I'm talking about.

EXERCISE

To ruin a bad memory

1. Start at the very end of the memory. The part that really makes you feel bad. blow up the still image and turn up the volume.

2. Now start to play it backwards, everyone walks backwards, things fall up instead of down, bread pops into the toaster instead of out, you know what I;m talking about right? Just run it in reverse all the way back to the beginning before you had the event and all was well in the world. Below is an example of a backwards movie.



3. Even if it's a long movie run it backwards till the point in your life, back in time, when you were happy or laughing before this event happened.

4. As you run it backwards also run a circus music soundtrack



5. Do this several times until you feel better

6. Now test the memory, you won't be feeling so bad anymore, because you'd have ruined your ability to feel lousy with this memory

Enjoy your freedom and spread the cheer.

Trances

This cool video is great to gain perspective on the universe

If something the size of our brain can contain consciousness, well there has to be consciousness in all of the universe don't you think? There are infinte states of mind other than the ones we are used to. How do we explore these? As you watched the video your mind undertook a journey across the universe officially known by modern man. How much more is documented and lost in ancient tongues?

I know for sure that a trance culture existed in India. Trances were portals into the great unconscious. It's possible that the same unconscious that controls your breathing and heart rate could be controlling the movement of the stars. Swami Rama had demonstrated great control on his 'involuntary' functions. We break bricks with a small tap from our hands in kickboxing class. Neville, one of my teachers gets behind you when you even think of hitting him. All demonstrations of the power of the unconscious mind.

Anyway all of these have one thing in common, they are all achieved in altered states of consciousness or trance.

Kung Fu does not actually refer to a martial art. It means spending energy and time in the cultivation of expertise. Expertise in anything, cooking, gardening, advertising, developing software, whatever... not just martial arts. Now people with Kung Fu are all doing things unconsciously. Look at the matrix below


This is the famous conscious competence learning matrix. Kung Fu is Unconscious Competence.
So as you can see the final state of learning something is a state of entering trance and being able to access capabilities of the unconscious at will.

With this post I hope to start you out on a study of trance. Trances are not only useful to do change-work but are essential to learn and master new skills. Useful? You bet. So isn't it worth practicing?


EXERCISE

To initiate and deepen trance and contact the unconscious

1. Sit comfortably in a chair with your hands on your lap and make an image of yourself sitting opposite yourself looking at yourself (phew!). You can keep your eyes closed or open, whichever makes it easier for you to visualise.
2. Now take this vision of yourself and make it larger while simultaneously dragging it away from you. So it gets bigger, but it's moving away from you, until it's really big on the horizon.
3. You'll begin to experience a somewhat altered state now, your breathing will deepen and your body will begin to relax.
4. Now tilt the image a bit one way and see if your state deepens, try both sides, also try tilting it forward and back, also try turning it so that it faces you at an angle. Do all these slowly and notice the effect of it on your trance and relaxation. Keep yourself tuned to recognise if this is taking you deeper into trance or not
5. Now turn up the brightness and check your trance, the idea being to get deeper. If you're not going deeper, try dimming the image and notice the effect on your trance.
6. Now make the image breathe along with you and see the trance deepen.
7. Imagine a control panel in your mind, imagine a large clickable dial with trance written on it, turn the dial up to 10X deepen and click it gently.
8. Feel yourself drop into a 10X deeper trance
9. Repeat 7 and 8 a few times
10. You must be in a really deep trance by now.
11. Imagine another large button on the control panel called unconscious communication switch.
12. Click it on.
13. Tell your unconscious mentally "If you hear and understand me please make my right index finger warm"
14. See if this happened, if it did congratulations! You have established communication with your unconscious. If it didn't go back to step 1 and try again before you proceed to 15
    
15. Now tell your unconscious "Please make it so that I can reach this state by going to my control panel and clicking the button called unconscious communication. If you have made it so please make my nose warm"
16. If your nose becomes warm, thank your unconscious and slowly come back out of trance by becoming aware of the sounds in the room.
17. Test the button by going in and clicking it, repeat steps 13 and 14 to see if it works.

You now have a great way to enter trance specifically to communicate with the unconscious part of you. Please practice this everyday. This is a useful relationship! I will elaborate on it's uses in future posts.

Great going!

Physical and Emotional Pain Control

I know many people out there are suffering from pain. Remember pain is a neurological phenomenon. If you had no nerves there would be no pain. I've heard of cases of child birth and surgery under hypnosis. Where the person went into an altered state and managed to turn off the pain switch.

Like any skill, NLP needs a little practice before pain control is total. But even if it's 20% reduced isn't it worth it? Just do it 5 times and it'll be 100% ok!

I've had success with many students who had swellings from fractures, the pain was negligible and the fractures healed quicker than expected with this technique.

This technique can also be used with itching and any kind of discomfort. Including the pain caused by shrill talkative people. I know a few, and i have the tone sensitive ears of a musician, before I learnt this technique I used to avoid these people. Now I can sit right in front of them and carry on a conversation!

The thing about nerves is that they habituate to the neurotransmitter very quickly. Neurotransmitters are chemicals that are passed from neuron to neuron in quick succession, they move really fast. Your neurons need to play 'passing the parcel' with your neurotransmitters in order to continue to feel the pain. The neurotransmitters of pain have to form a closed circuit or a repetitive loop in order to continue to be felt. 

You feel this as a spinning or as a radiation. 

Fear, anger, guilt etc are felt as a spinning inside your thoracic cavity, sometimes the loop can also be found in your neck and head as well. Think of an example of physical or emotional pain that feels like this.

Stubbing your toe or shin on something can cause pain too. However, this pain radiates in lines into your leg. Try it if you don't remember!

Once you've identified the pain that you are going to get rid of, (you've presupposed that the pain is leaving) reverse the loop by mentally taking the pain out, flipping it over and fitting it back so that it moves in the opposite direction. 

This is so much easier to explain with an illustration.

This is how pain feels, it usually moves into your body

Just visualise it moving out and change the radiating waves to blue

The video above is about a claustrophobia cure. But at 7:37 the technique of spinning is nicely illustrated. This works like a charm on anxieties and emotional pain. Try it!

Let me know how you did!