Be your own NLP master. I’m a big fan of NLP – or neuro linguistic programming – so I thought I’d devote this particular blog post to some of my favourite NLP techniques. NLP is a personal development system based on an understanding of how the mind works – how people use thoughts, feelings, words and actions – and using this understanding to enhance our potential. Life’s everyday challenges can often produce stress, anxiety or anger if we are unable to find the right strategies to deal with them, so this is where NLP can come in handy. photo credit: aithom2 Here are some things NLP can help with: Here are some techniques you might want to try out yourself: The ‘swish’ techniqueThis technique is used to replace any negative thoughts surrounding a past experience with positive ones.
Begin by closing your eyes and imagining yourself in that uncomfortable situation, giving the presentation. Next, visualise yourself having successfully given the presentation. Next, fill your mind with your ‘anxious moment’ again. Healthy thinking - Mental health and emotional wellness. Emotional wellness - Mental health and emotional wellness. Quotes from the book: “Healing through the dark emotions” Healing through the dark emotions. Below are some excerpts from a Sun Magazine from a few years ago. The article is about Miriam Greenspan’s work about healing through grief. This book was helpful when my brother died, several years ago now.
I posted these excerpts with different commentary first in 2007. Here are an excerpt from the introduction to the interview: A psychotherapist for more than 33 years, Greenspan sees the dark emotions as potentially profound spiritual teachers—if we can live mindfully with them. Amen. Oh—just one quote of her actual words from the interview: Fear, grief and despair are uncomfortable and are seen as signs of personal failure.
Oh psychiatry take heed! I’ve collected many posts now under a category called, reframe your experience. Update: My husband did a cool thing. Rather than let suffering expand our consciousness, we succumb to feelings of victimization of ourselves as sick. That is all I wanted to share. The book: Like this: Like Loading...