Mind mastery

Acknowledgements and Credits You create your personal universe! The qualities you need to achieve what you want (and later you will learn how to develop these qualities) Emoting Believing Self Direction Clarification of Values Energising Relating Mastering Communication Eight Successful Qualities 1 Good-heartedness: Charity and Love 2 Honesty 3 Congruity: Harmony in word and act 4 Freedom: Patience, Non-reacting to pleasure and pain 5 Dauntless energy 6 Rationality and Intelligence 7 Intuitive Wisdom: Creativity 8 Equanimity and Serenity Note on the paramitas How long does it take? The Unutterable Word Three doors to the mind The belief system Mental syntax Physiology Undefined Word Strategy Pacing and Leading—How to get into rapport Building Rapport by Pacing Words Building Rapport: Pacing Patterns Pacing Breathing Cross Modality Pacing Body Rapport Pacing Body Language Using Voice Patterns to build rapport Perceptual Positions Self Other Non-involved Group Source Ladders of Thought Nominal Thinking Confusion Between Imagination and Reality Either/or Thinking Absolutes Egocentricity Overgeneralization Causality Nominal Thinking ignores the negative The Point Ordinal Thinking The Monkey Story, or How Ordinal Thinking Is Not Always Enough The Crashing Passenger Plane Absolutes The Concept of the Negative in Ordinal Thinking The Point Interval Thinking Absolutes Problems with Interval Thinking The Concept of the Negative at Interval Thinking Ratio Thinking History of Knowledge Stories and Metaphors Stories that guide us in life Some stories stop mind chatter Stories make the abstract concrete Stories often use wise fools and animals Real Stories Principles Algorithms—doing it step by step Meta-algorithms—which algorithm, principle or story? All these stages are important Handling Strong Emotions Buddhist Approach Alternative Handling Language Deletions, Generalizations and Distortions Deletions Generalizations Distortions Handling Deletions Handling Generalizations Handling Distortions Logical Levels Example How to set goals Goals – The seven easy steps to ensure that you get what you want! Our Brilliant Unconscious Minds (The Unconscious Problem Solver) The Unlimited Unconscious Mind The Unconscious Mind in Art Mathematical Knowledge Scientific Knowledge The Eureka Experience Reverse Psychology: What you resist, persists Truth and the Fight-Flight Aspect of the Unconscious Mind Handling Concerns Honestly 1. Collect Relevant Information 2. Is it true? Is it really true? 3. Suppose you didn't believe that. How would your Life be different? 4. Test Example 1. Collect Relevant Information 2. Is it true? 3. Suppose you didn't believe that. How would your Life be different? 4. Test The Honesty Blowout Acknowledge the truth Be precise and accurate Deal with false ideas Use true suggestions What are States of Mind We desire States, not things You can become conscious of your States and change them Where do States of Mind come from? Environment Incidents Knowledge Past Life Self Created Worlds in Your Mind Your mental states determine how you create your world. You create your mental states by the way you represent things to yourself. Anchoring: Creating States of Mind at Will Automatic Unconscious Anchors Designer Anchors The Resource State Vivifying a Memory to make it Stronger I have never felt that way... Powerful questions to create a resource state for anchoring Types of Anchors Visual Anchors Auditory Anchors Kinaesthetic Anchors. Visual, Kinaesthetic and Auditory Anchors Installing Anchors Tips Modalities Visual Auditory Auditory-Digital Kinaesthetic Submodalities Contents of this Section Visual Submodalities Auditory Submodalities Kinaesthetic Submodalities Feeling Submodalities Action (touch) Submodalities Pain Submodalities Taste and Smell Think of a pleasant experience Changing an internal voice Reframing a negative experience Changing the Power of Representations Changing Visual Modalities Changing the effect of images through changing visual submodalities Changing the Viewpoint Changing Auditory Modalities Changing the effects of self talk To make an inner voice more motivating Changing the Kinaesthetic Modality Crossing Modalities Tools to change your life Associated and Dissociated Actor and Observer Sensing Mental Images Association in Everyday Life Comparison of Associated and Dissociated How to associate into another person or thing How to dissociate from another person or thing Modalities - How to read a person's mind from their words Visual Modality Kinaesthetic Modality Auditory Modality Auditory Digital (Self talk) Eye positions Physical actions What are Submodalities Finding Submodalities Contents of this Section Visual submodality Auditory Modality Kinaesthetic Changing Submodalities in One Go Changing Feelings —Kinaesthetics The pattern Example Handle New issues that arise. How to Change Submodalities Comparing two states of mind Creative Visualization The Mind Affects the Body Supernatural Science Fiction/Fantasy Regular Fantasy You cannot imagine something and not experience the Results The pattern SUDS (Rating your feelings, etc) The State Breaker Hypnosis Age Regression Age Progression Dissociation Association Amnesia Negative Hallucination Positive Hallucination Time Distortion Sensory Distortion Discover the model How do you do that? Swish Pattern (Strictly, the Visual Swish Pattern) Further Points Kinaesthetic Swish 1. Associate into the unresourceful feeling and determine its Submodalities 2. Break State 3. Locate a positive state and define its submodalities and amplify them 4. Break State 5. Swish the unresourceful state into the resourceful one. 6. Test Example Changing Beliefs Contents of this Section Making beliefs stronger (or weaker) Negative States Depression Love Pain Persuasion through enlightenment Left and Right Brain Hemispheres Strategy The Representing the Code How to model Super Spelling Strategy Chunking Discovering Someone’s Strategy Eye Positions and Preferred Modality How to motivate yourself and fix on your goal within 24 seconds (Strategy)! Find the other's secret place and instantly influence them! (Strategy) 1. Identify a place in the other’s mind where they have the particular state. 2. Put yourself or an object in the general position and direction of that place. Reframing One word reframes Put it in a Picture Frame and hang it on the Wall—Simple reframe of a Negative Experience Reframing Ideas Viewpoint Reframes Reframing Interpersonal Conflict Time Reframes Quick Reframe Context Reframes (Situational Reframes) Meaning Reframes The Glad Game Consequence Reframes Comparative Reframes (Half full or half empty?) Symbolic Reframes Cleaning Shopping Waiting Everything has a positive intention. How can we use this information? Let's try a conversation: More examples: Other Reframes Six-step Reframing Contents of this Section 1. Identify the behaviour or response to be changed. 2. Establish communication with the part which is responsible for the behaviour 3. Separate the positive intention from the behaviour 4. Ask your creative part to generate new ways of behaving that will accomplish the same purpose. 5. Ask the part if it will agree to use the new choices over the next few weeks, rather than the old behaviour. 6. Ecological Check Summary Quick (Six-step reframing in one step) Reframes Finding Positive Intentions The Principle that Every Behaviour has a Positive Intention (Purpose) Identify the Problem Get into Communication with the Part Reveal the Underlying Motive Discover the Core Motive Next Steps Comment Ecology Check (Is what you are doing or intend something you really want?) Be objective Move in time Ask good questions Give the unconscious time Evaluate The Phobia Cure 1) Disassociate 2) Run the movie in black and white Repeat Theory Variations Energy Medicine Approach to Healing Hand Positions Statement Breathing Tapping Evaluate Additional Visualization Visual Squash Example Effective People Effective people: Believe there is no such thing as perfection Believe the basic intention of life, the universe, people, etc, is relatively good Seek only obtaining a result, a decision, a change, not to win or lose. Believe there is no failure or success, only feedback, knowledge Act with integrity and honesty. Do something else, or stop doing nothing, if things are not to their preference. View ideas and thoughts from various viewpoints. Have a clear idea of objectives Believe mind and Body are part of the same system Hierarchy of Ideas Big Chunks and Small Chunks General Ideas are Big Chunks Specific Words are Smaller Chunks Chunking up to become more general, and chunking down to be more specific Chunking up Chunking down Chunking across Illustrative conversation—Chunking up to get agreement Hierarchies depend on the Individual Association Similarity Difference Space and Time Bases of Comparison Uptime and Downtime Sensory Language A Picture of the Mind Internal and External The map of the mind The internal mind is a magical world The Common Map of Experience The internal-external link Meaning What is meaning? Abstract words are really concrete - after all! The sensory representations becomes automatic and unconscious — as we gain experience Filthy Lucre Internalising Meaning Money Fair exchange is no robbery. Wealth Something for nothing What is gold in the mind? Money Processes Increase Your Motivation Establish Wealth on your Future Time Track Double Standards Handling Double Standards The Part has the Same Qualities as the Whole (Fallacy) What are Criteria? Criteria or values How to Elicit Criteria Criteria - another method Eliciting submodalities for criteria Comparing a new criteria with an old one and installing the new criteria Comparing the submodalities. of money with happiness Installing the money value Comparing money as a value with the other values Being Specific Model Handling Deletions Handling Generalizations Handling Distortions Every Written English Sentence can be spoken in a Range of Meanings Presuppositions Questions Statements Questions with Presuppositions Presuppositions and the Being Specific Model Simple Deletions Incomplete Predicates About what? Lack of Referential Index Handling Lack of Referential Index Personal Pronouns Other Pronouns Unspecified Nouns Which doctors, specifically? More on Unspecified Nouns Everybody's Doing it! Universal Quantifiers Method 1:Drawing Attention to the Extremes Method 2: Ask for an Example Method 3: Ask for a counter-example Method 4: Dilemmas (Double binds) Nominalizations Reflective Thinking and Nominalizations Dealing with Nominalizations What kind of thing is it? Words that say it all - or try to! (More on Nominalizations) Unspecified Verbs How exactly did he hurt you? (More on unspecified verbs) Unspecified Adjectives Comparatives Discovering Value Folks usually do it, you know (More on comparative deletions) Universal Quantifiers Modal Operators Can: Ability Must: Obligation May: Probability Mind Reading—Claiming knowledge without verification Is someone reading your Mind? Why the Being Specific Model is so powerful Lost Performatives Performatives Pseudo-Performatives Lost Performatives A Performative is not an Opinion Handling Performatives How does your saying that make it a fact? (Performatives) Cause and Effect Making Meaning Clear Complex Equivalence—what does it really mean? Transderivational Search Restriction Violations—the conscious mind looks at metaphor Anthropomorphism Selectional Restriction Violations Metaphors Words: Emotional and Personal Meanings Words that suggest how we should feel towards something Emotional Words How Emotional Words lead us to believe ideas thoughtlessly How to handle Emotional Words Adjectives and Adverbs: Simply delete them Nouns: Chunk-up Milton Model Comparative Deletions Nominalizations Universal Quantifiers Unspecified Nouns Unspecified Verbs Commentary adjectives and adverbs Conjunctions And Time Words Causation Mind Reading Complex Equivalence Lost Performatives Conversational Postulates Tag Questions Presuppositions Ordinals Or Awareness Adverbs and Adjectives Modal Operators Possibility Necessity Pace Current Experience Binds Simple Binds Double Binds Double Dissociative Double Bind Analysis: Symbolic Modelling Clean Language Unclean Language Clean Language Questions We use Metaphors to understand Assumptions General Points 4 Steps in Therapy/Guidance Example Procrastination Finding a metaphor Develop the metaphors and move earlier in time or causation Find a resource powerful enough to solve the issue. Move forward through the issues with the resource