Change Your Personal History with NLP

Bad things happen to all of us at some point in our lives.  Often we are able to shrug these things off, and they don't bother us for very long.  However sometimes these things affect our lives in a negative way for a longer time.  And these things affect people in different ways.  Experiences happen, and feelings, thoughts, and beliefs are automatically linked to experiences.

Two people may have each been abused during childhood.  One of them might get it linked up in their mind that "It's my fault, I'm worthless", while another might link up "I'm never going to let this happen again to me or anyone else I know, I'm going to be strong".  Two very different situations derived from the same experience.  So what's the difference?  What causes one person to attach a useful meaning, and another to go through hell?  Who really knows?  And who will ever know?  My questions are "Is it any use to know?  Is there a better way to help?"

A great thing about the mind is that it is a learning machine, if it does something once, it can do it again.  The mind knows how to link experiences to feelings, thoughts, and beliefs; it's done it our whole lives.  This "linking process" can be used in a positive way to effect lasting change.

Take a moment and think of something that happened to you in the past that you would say is negative.  Maybe it makes you feel bad, maybe it makes you say bad things to yourself, or maybe it holds you back from doing things that you want to do.  Wouldn't it be nice to be able to feel neutral about this experience rather than feel bad?  Or maybe even find a way to feel good enough about it to make it useful?

Try this simple exercise:

1.     Think about a negative thing that happened to you, which is still affecting your life now.  

2.     Think about how you'd rather react to it.

3.     Have a think about the following question - "What would it have been handy for me to know and do back then that would have made me go through the situation and come out with the positive reaction?”

4.     Once you have answered this question, close your eyes and in your imagination go back and run through the experience again, but this time running it differently and coming out with the positive reaction.

This simple mental rehearsal exercise can start to change how you think about things, and change your personal history.  An experienced NLP practitioner can guide you through a process to impart more in depth and lasting change.

Richard Lindesay

www.RichardLindesay.com

Richard is a Licensed Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Specialist Practitioner in Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning (NHR) at the Four Barrows Complimentary Health Care Clinic in Aldbourne. 

To book Richard for NLP Life Change and Life Identity Design sessions, email info@richardlindesay.com or contact the Four Barrows clinic.

Keeping Warm - Keeping Well

Keeping Warm - Keeping Well

By Laura Nutley

Keeping the body warm and protecting it from outside influences, particularly at this time of year, is seen as a very important part of dis-ease prevention in Chinese Medicine.

Ailments such as back pain, headaches, neck ache, the common cold, infertility and even painful periods are seen to be as a result of cold invading the body and damaging the internal balance needed for good health. Central heating can exacerbate this problem as it leaves our pores open and our defences down as we step outside into the cold winter air, thereby allowing the cold to penetrate and affect our internal systems.

Luckily, prevention is easy! Do as your mother always told you and wrap up warm before facing the elements. Protect areas such as your head, neck, lower back, abdomen and feet and eat warming, nourishing foods, such as soups, stews, and avoid a diet high in raw, cold foods. Likewise, it is not advisable to exercise and then step straight outside whilst still hot and sweaty from a workout. For example, the practice of young female athletes training and then using ice baths is seen by some practitioners as having a direct correlation with these young women later having menstrual disorders and suffering from infertility. At a time when the body is changing and developing the shock of the cold to a warmed up body is just too much and as the pores are so open the body has little defence. Although this example is extreme it illustrates the problems that can be caused by temperature extremes and the very real effect that not adequately protecting the body can have on health.

All common sense really, but worth keeping in mind and putting into practice, as these ideas can make a real difference to your health and well being.