HEALTH & NLP

[Teacher]

Health is not only what we have in the present - it is the guarantee of our happy and harmonious future.

Everyone knows the ancient, catchphrase "in a healthy body - a healthy mind" (lat. "Mens sana in corpore sano"). It reflects one of the basic presuppositions of NLP "body and mind are part of the same system." And how parts of one system can mutually influence each other. Right thoughts form a healthy body, and a healthy body sets up the right thoughts.

Health is determined by the state of the physical body, how we take care of it, and thoughts, the psychological atmosphere that each of us creates outside and inside ourselves, and the environment.

It is no surprise to anyone that "all diseases are from the nerves" and scientists have already established the reason for this. At the moment when a person is in a stressful situation or even just in an uncomfortable environment, uncontrolled processes occur in the body. The body begins to react independently of our will, almost instantly, with the release of hormones. An increased supply of oxygen to the brain begins, the metabolism accelerates, the heartbeat accelerates, and muscle tone increases. This is how the body prepares itself to respond to stress. Being in this state for a long time, negative irreversible processes begin. First of all, the immune system suffers. Therefore, a person who has been in an unfriendly environment for a long time loses his health, often suffers from respiratory diseases. Muscle clamps that arise from such nervous tension, over time, they lead to the fact that they become habitual, which affects the blood supply to the internal organs, as well as the clamping of the nerve endings. This is how "diseases from the nerves" arise.

For dealing with disease, NLP offers a self-healing template.

1. Choose the disease you want to cope with.

Consider the example of skin diseases, for example psoriasis, which has a pronounced psychosomatic nature, and is perceived by many as a given, with which it is useless to fight.

Create an image, a picture of yourself with the disease.

2. What will change in your life if the illness passes?

By answering this question, you can get, for example, the following benefits: “I will become more beautiful”, “I will be able to visit the beach more and do not hesitate”, “I will have more pleasant sensations of my body ”,“ After recovering, I will be able to spend time on interesting resorts or traveling. "

At this point, identify your secondary benefits of the disease. Secondary benefit is the answer to the question "what good do I get from the fact that I have this disease?" There shouldn't be more than the benefits of recovery.

Secondary benefits, for example, “I treat my illness in sanatoriums, this is a pleasant process,” “I can not wash the dishes,” “I must wear clothes that cover my body, and this saves from ultraviolet radiation, this is useful ”.

3. Think about how you will know that you are already recovering.

Here it is necessary to identify clear criteria, while negative statements should be avoided.

“I will get more pleasant sensations from the body”, “there will be healthy skin”, “the affected area will decrease three times”, “it will stop itching”.

Create a picture of yourself as healthy. Anchoring kinesthetic sensations from a state of health.

4. Find out the difference in images between illness and recovery.

Colors, whether there are sounds, whether images are dynamic, brightness, picture size, whether there are boundaries and which ones, volumetric picture or not, where the pictures are in space and other submodality.

5. Add resource submodalities to the non-resource image.

Add colors, move it to the place in the space where the resource image was, resize, add volume if it was not there, etc.

When you transfer all submodalities, associate with the image and turn on the anchor of kinesthetic sensations.

To answer the question: how did the sensations change after that? What positive changes have occurred?

6. Thank your body and ask the question, what would have happened if it was like this since 5 years old and will be so in the future?

“I would have and will have more free time (no need to spend time on treatment)”, “I have more free money (no need to spend on medications)”, “I can wear open swimsuits or short-sleeved shirts,” etc. etc.

7. Do this technique with several other sores.

This technique will work with bad habits such as smoking as well.

Listen to your body. Even at the initial, the body signals a possible problem, the main thing is to respond to these signals. Try to relax and realize what emotion is behind this signal and what this emotion wants for you.

Any of our emotions, even negative ones, appear with a positive intention.
So anger is designed to protect, irritation can carry a desire to be left alone, sadness can be a sign of lack of attention. It will be something different for everyone. And having understood what you are missing, try to give it to your body and psyche.

Try to create a comfortable environment around you and accept as a fact that sometimes people do not act the way you want, just as you sometimes do not the way they want. Maintain physical activity. It gives vent to emotions, keeps muscles in the right tone and makes the body fit. Try to notice the good around you.

All this will prevent the onset and development of the disease. Prevention is better than cure.

 

[Tomcat]

Anchor in NLP: How Does It Work?​

Great, carder is with you. Today we will discuss a topic that many of you have heard about, but did not always understand what is the point ... this topic of Anchors. (The article is more informational in nature, since the topic is deep and we will analyze it in parts)
Have you ever had a situation when your favorite song was turned on and you immediately felt fun, or when an unpleasant person touched you and you felt uncomfortable? If yes, then congratulations - you are Pavlov's dog))))) Okay, that's not the point, but that you already know what anchors are, it remains to tell you how and what to do with them.

And again the theory:
An anchor is any stimulus that elicits a specific response (something like a weak conditioned reflex, or something that precedes a conditioned reflex). Anchors occur naturally, but they can be set deliberately, such as ringing a bell to get people's attention, or touching a person's hand to answer a question.

Anchor = stimulus + response.
Let us recall Pavlov's dogs, which salivated on the bell. So, we are all much bigger dogs than Pavlov's dogs. If for the organization of drooling a dog needed about a week of hard training, then a person can be trained almost the first time. For the dog, the sound of the bell and the taste of food were combined. After a while, it became a single whole for her: a conditioned reflex. And she reacted to the call in the same way as to taste. That is, it was already possible not to feed her, but simply to ring the bell.
In humans, you can also develop a conditioned reflex, only much faster. The first time. For example, if at that moment when a person is experiencing strong joy, touch his shoulder, then after, with exactly the same touch on his shoulder, he will again experience joy. Like a wake-up call for a dog. Only her saliva flowed on the call, and the person, in this example, rejoices at the touch. There is a stimulus - there is a reaction. If a stimulus triggers a response, this is the anchor.

The anchor works as long as you hold it.
My favorite analogy about anchors is the doorbell. A bell consists of three main parts: a thing that makes a sound (it is usually called a bell, but in order not to get confused, I will call it "a thing that makes a sound"), wires and buttons. In order for this to work, the button must be connected with a wire to the thing that makes a sound. If you've attached it correctly, pressing the button will make the "thing" jingle when the button is pressed.
And the correspondences here are: call - reaction / state, button - stimulus, wire - connection. Where is the anchor? And an anchor is a properly connected button, that is, a stimulus. Now, if the stimulus is correctly connected with the state, the stimulus will be proudly called an anchor. You press the button - you turn on the state.
You can touch someone else's shoulder. And while it is just a touch, it is so, a sensation. But when a touch on the shoulder each time starts to cause hysteria (laughter, delight, happiness) - this is already an anchor.
We can say that anchors are what precedes the conditioned reflex. Under certain conditions, they will turn into a conditioned reflex. But more on that later.
Moreover, it does not matter what exactly a person is experiencing at this moment: joy, delight, hatred, fear, irritation or fear. And also, how this state will be anchored: by touching the shoulder, characteristic intonation or gesture. Every time you touch the shoulder in the same way, say something with this characteristic intonation or make the same gesture, the person will experience the same experience as at the moment when the anchor was set: joy, delight, hatred, fear, irritation, or fear.
True, this "every time" will only last for a while: anchors have a lifetime.
After all, the brain, in a certain sense, hardly does anything else: it only determines coincidences. If some sign is present in a certain state, then when this sign appears again, you need to call this state. This is how the anchor works: a person notices a sign and his state "turns on".
An anchor is like a bell button, pressed - the bell rings, released - silence.

Anchors are different from conditioned reflexes.
The conditioned reflex is formed by repeated repetition, the anchor - by the accuracy of installation and reproduction.

Anchors have a lifetime.
If the anchor is not fixed, then it will live from an hour to several days. Also, it can be overwritten with other anchors.

Anchors can be secured.
To secure the anchor, you need to repeat the entire anchoring procedure 3-5 times. The anchored anchor is already a conditioned reflex.

 

[Brother]

NLP: What Are Beliefs?​

“Our beliefs have a huge impact on our behavior.
It is generally accepted that if a person truly believes that he can to do something, it will definitely do it. But if he is convinced of
the impossibility of this, no strength is enough to convince him of the opposite. Beliefs such as "It's too late", "Nothing
what can you do, here I am powerless "," I am a victim of circumstances", "Since my share has fallen, you will not go anywhere "- - can often be a stone
stumbling blocks that prevent a person from making full use of the full potential of their natural resources and unconscious unconscious competence. Our beliefs regarding themselves and their capabilities in the world around them are invariable and in significantly affect daily activities. Everyone has beliefs that serve as a resource, and along with this - beliefs, restraining forward movement."
Robert Dilts. "Changing beliefs with NLP".

Beliefs as they are.​

In my opinion, Robert Dilts is the most respected expert on persuasion work. He defines beliefs as "A belief is a generalization of any relationship between different manifestations of life experience ."
But this conviction is still quite strict and scientific. I would try to define beliefs a little differently.
A person has his own idea of the world, his map . Beliefs are the skeleton of his map around which it is built. Beliefs, however, determine to the greatest extent the inner world of a person. A person either does something for the sake of his beliefs, or does nothing. If you are reading this article, you must have a belief that would support this aspiration of yours. For example, that " it is important to understand yourself " or " you need to take some time ".

Belief structure.​

Beliefs can be expressed in a detailed sentence, and they can be reduced to something like this:
X = Y (X corresponds to Y) or X => Y (From X implies Y)

1. If a person has Love in life, then he Lived it for a reason.
2. (Love = Lived not in vain).
3. If you try, you can achieve Happiness in life.
4. (Try => Happiness)
5. If I have a Good Job, then I can get out of a difficult situation.
6. (Good Job => get out of a difficult situation).
7. If I was interesting enough, then I would find myself a Beloved Husband.
8. ( Be interesting => find the Beloved Husband).

More examples:

1. I am an Interesting Person.
2. A married person is not free.
3. Love is good.
4. If I do everything well, it means that I am talented.
5. If I work hard, I will become a rich man.

Internal representation.​

Beliefs themselves within a person are most often represented not by words, but by feelings, images that carry this meaning. Trying to formulate a belief is simply a selection of the most appropriate words. And when you try to articulate a belief, there can be a problem with the accuracy of the transmission. Very similar phrases can describe quite different beliefs.
I can change.
I can change.
These two beliefs are quite similar in sound, but very different in meaning.

Types of beliefs.​

Robert Dilts suggests breaking beliefs into three types:

1. Beliefs of Opportunity.

That is, beliefs about what a person can and what not:

1. I am completely incapable of thinking quickly.
2. In order to get enough sleep, 4-5 hours a day is enough for me.
3. Well, I can't leave my family.
4. Identity beliefs.

Who am I, what am I (the same is about other people)

1. I am quite a competent specialist!
2. People like me are always unlucky.
3. Ivan Petrovich is a loser.
4. Belief about the meaning (conformity). If he is jealous, then he loves.
5. There is no happiness in life for the beautiful.
6. If you have hands, then you will feed your family.

Why Know About Beliefs.​

If it concerns other people, beliefs help us understand what exactly this other person needs, why he reacts so and what is the reason for his actions. Also, if you wish (both your own and the "client's"), you can try to change these beliefs.
For yourself, knowing your own beliefs (and the way to change them) is a great tool for organizing yourself in the right way and getting rid of your own limitations.