The Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind – Part II

Jun 292010

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I’m going to take a break today from posting about my NLP training…even though it is so powerful, and finish a post I started last week – The Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind – Part I

When we understand what drives the unconscious mind, that is, what are its’ critical responsibilities, we are then better able to work with it and affect lasting change.

To continue….

Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 11

The Unconscious Mind enjoys serving, and it needs clear orders.

The Unconscious Mind needs really clear orders to follow. The problem is that most people give the Unconscious Mind inconsistent orders. You know, like one day … “I’m looking so handsome and so beautiful” and the next day you look in the mirror and say … “Oh God, I look awful.” … and the poor Unconscious Mind gets confused. Or, one day, “I’m a great person,” and the next day, “I’m no good” … and the Unconscious Mind gets confused and isn’t sure what it should do.

One of the most important things we can do, with regards to this Prime Directive, that is, that since ‘The Unconscious Mind enjoys serving, but needs clear orders to follow,’ one of the most important things that we can do, is to give our Unconscious Mind consistent direction … consistent directives.

Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 11

The Unconscious Mind controls and maintains all perceptions.

This includes both those which are regular, and those which are telepathic, and it receives and transmits these perceptions to the Conscious Mind.

Anytime we want to increase our ability to perceive, we would work with the Unconscious Mind. That means that you could talk to the Unconscious Mind, and ask it to increase the perception, even regular perception, such as vision, or hearing. You can ask the Unconscious Mind, and the Unconscious Mind will improve the hearing or the vision if you simply work with the Unconscious Mind to have it do that.

Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 12

The Unconscious Mind is in charge of the generation, the storage, the distribution and the transmission of energy throughout the body.

So if someone does actually want more energy, or feels like they have low energy, the Unconscious Mind can be encouraged, and given the opportunity to increase the amount of energy and the low energy symptoms can certainly be decreased dramatically, or it can even disappear.

Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 13

The Unconscious Mind is in charge of instincts and generating habits.

Those are two different things by the way. Let’s talk about instincts first. Instincts include thing like the Fight-or-Flight Response. That’s an instinct. If you are threatened, what will happen is that the flight or fight response will kick in, and you’ll choose one of those. You’ll choose either ‘fight’ or ‘flight’ and the Unconscious Mind will simply kick in and you will either get out of the way, safe by running, by doing ‘flight’ … or you’ll stay there and fight.

In addition the Unconscious Mind is also in charge of generating habits. There can be Good and Bad habits… and typically the Unconscious Mind will need repetition, until a habit is installed.

Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 14

The Unconscious Mind will need repetition, until a new habit is installed.

Changing Strategies using NLP, or Swish Patterns, often change habits by themselves, and therefore, the Unconscious Mind will not need that much repetition if we are using NLP to change a habit.

Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 15

The Unconscious Mind is programmed to continually seek more and more …

This means there is always more to discover. The Unconscious Mind generally functions by comparison, and each time it looks for a little bit more … and more.

Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 16

The Unconscious Mind functions best as a whole, integrated unit, and that means that it does not need Parts to function.

This is also one of the Presuppositions of NLP, which maintain that all procedures should increase wholeness. It is best to have an integrated wholeness at the unconscious level … not fragmented into Parts, but an integrated wholeness. This involves Parts Integration, to increase that. Any time you have ‘incongruence’, Parts Integration is the answer.

Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 17

The Unconscious Mind is symbolic. It uses, and responds, to symbols.

In western Psychology the first person to discover this was Carl Jung, and in his book ‘Psyche and Symbol’ he was one of the first to point out that the Unconscious Mind works and thinks in symbols and responds to symbols.

This is important regarding your memories of your past. A lot of what the Unconscious Mind gives us may be symbolic, and may actually not be the event or item which is represented. You can test this out yourself. Ask a brother, or a sister, or one of your other family members, about their recollection of a major family event. More than likely, it will be totally different from yours. What you remember is simply what you remember, and usually, what you remember is a symbolic representation, and not an actual representation of what really went on.

Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 18

The Unconscious Mind takes everything personally.

This by the way, this is basis for what psychologists mean when they say that ‘Perception is Projection’. The Unconscious Mind takes everything personally. Every time you look outside yourself, and you point the finger at someone else, and say … “That’s not me, that’s that person …” and so forth … your Unconscious Mind thinks you are thinking that of you.

So the unconscious takes everything personally is like a double edged sword. It’s actually both good and bad. It’s good if you can get in control of your thinking. Dr Tad James tells a story of a famous Swami who told him to “See everyone as being divine!” … and Dr James thought to himself “Wow! How can he say that? Does he even mean the bum out on the street outside here … that this person is divine?” … and of course, he did mean that. It’s a great meditation, because if you see that person as divine, then you see yourself as divine.

Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 19

The Unconscious Mind works on the principle of least effort, it works on the path of least resistance.

The Unconscious Mind will do as little as it possibly can, to produce the kind of results you’ve asked it for. That’s important because it means we need to pin down the Unconscious Mind when we are asking it to make change. Always remember that “the Unconscious Mind works on the principle of least effort, it works on the path of least resistance” and that simply means we need to get real specific with the Unconscious Mind, so that we pin it down as to where it’s going and what we want it to do.

Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 20

The Unconscious Mind does not process negatives.

If I say to you … “Don’t think of a blue tree!”, of course you’re thinking of a blue tree. So we have to be careful to suggest to people that they make the kinds of changes we want them to make. Now we could tell them what ‘not to think’… for example, I could say to you … “I don’t want you to think it will be really, really easy for you to make this change.” … and of course your Unconscious Mind will pick up… “it will be really, really easy for you to make this change”… and hear that, primarily over and above when I say … “I don’t want you to think that”. This is a very important Prime Directive, because it allows us to utilize the way the Unconscious Mind already thinks, in the process of being able to make change.

I go over some of these directives and how to utilize them in my e-book “How to Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior.”

Please share your thoughts in the comment section below.

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NLP Training – Day 3

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Jun 282010

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Today we moved on to Submodalities, anchoring and affecting change. Today was filled with more hands on experience then lecture

Submodalities – How we encode and give meaning to our internal representations. By changing the Submodalities we can change the meaning of the internal representation.

Submodalities are the “qualities” of the internal representation, i.e. color, black & white, close or far, bright or dim, loud or soft, etc.

Submodalities Change Techniques
- Contrast Analysis
- Mapping Across (Like to Dislike)
- Swish Pattern
- Dissociative Techniques
- Perceptual Positions

Contrast Analysis – Comparing the qualities of two internal representations

Mapping Across (Like to Dislike)

Mapping an internal representation of something you like (and prefer not to) to something you don’t like.

Swish Pattern

Involves replacing one internal representation or picture of an undesired behavior/state with an internal representation of a desired behavior or state.

It was fascinating how well both these process worked! Everyone in the training did at least one of both of the techniques and changed some major habits.

I wanted to “quite” Oreo cookies ….yea I know, they are so, so good and I wanted to quit them anyway. So I mapped Oreo cookies to anchovies. Believe me…I have NO desire for Oreo cookies anymore. This is just a very simple example of how powerful Mapping Across is.

For the Swish Pattern I had a VERY bad habit of picking and biting my nails. Without getting into too much detail…it was really bad! After the Swish Pattern…gone No more habit.

We are all amazed at how powerful and easy change really is when using the correct processes.

Anchoring

To be able to anchor (establish and fixed point) a state in a person at any time in any modality.

Any time a person is in an associated, intense state, i.e. confident, happy, powerful, if at the peak of that experience, a specific stimulus is applied, and then the two will be linked together neurologically, like touching your thumb and forefinger together just after you’ve won a race.

Anchoring can assist a person in gaining access to past states and linking the past state to a present and future state, i.e. your at a new race, you touch your thumb and forefinger together just before you run the race…the “old” felling of what it’s like to win comes back and assists you in running this race.

Simple Anchor

Using one state and one anchor location

Stacked Anchor

Using multiple positive states on one anchor location

Collapse Anchor

Using a stacked anchor (or positive states) to “override” a simple anchor of a negative sate thus naturalizing the negative sate.

The more I get exposed, learn about and use NLP, the more I understand how it is a fantastic tool for developing mental strength, personal empowerment and affecting personal and professional performance.

I’d like to hear your comments below and if you’d to find out more about NLP please check out http://NLP.com

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NLP Training – Day 2

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Jun 272010

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Another mind blowing day of NLP training! Today was about language and communication. The person who is most flexible with their language controls the conversation.

Here’s a recap of what we learned.

Hierarchy of Ideas (chunks)

Up
- To get agreement
- Abstraction
- “For what purpose?”
- What is this an example of?
- What is your intention?
Down
- Details
- Distinction
- Can lead to disagreement
Lateral
- Chunk up (what is this an example of?)
- What are other examples of this?
- Chunk down to similar example

Metaphor

Presenting problem – Barrier (critical factor) – Solution

Metaphor presents a solution that is has no conscious connection and bypass the critical factor,

Making Metaphor work

Get present state
Get desired sate
How is this a problem
What prevents you…
What’s important to you (of value or interest)
Create metaphor
Deliver metaphor (with out any conscious connect to solution)

Milton Model (chunks up)

Milton Erickson maintained that it was not possible to consciously instruct the subconscious mind, and that authoritarian suggestions were likely to be met with resistance. The subconscious mind responds to openings, opportunities, metaphors and contradictions. Effective hypnotic suggestion, then, should be ‘artfully vague’, leaving space for the subject to fill in the gaps with their own unconscious understandings – even if they do not consciously grasp what is happening. The skilled hypnotherapist constructs these gaps of meaning in a way most suited to the individual subject – in a way which is most likely to produce the desired change.

The Milton model is purposely vague and metaphoric and is used to soften the meta model and make indirect suggestions. A direct suggestion merely states the goal. For example, “When you are in front of the audience you will not feel nervous”. Whereas an indirect suggestion is less authoritative and leaves an opportunity for interpretation. For example, “When you are in front of the audience, you might find yourself feeling ever more confident”. The preceding example follows the indirect method as both the specific time and level of self-confidence is left unspecified. It might be made even more indirect by saying, “When you come to a decision to speak in public, you may find it appealing how your feelings have changed.” The choice of speaking in front of the audience, the exact time, and the likely responses to the whole process are framed, but imprecise language gives the client the opportunity to fill in the finer details,

Milton Model Language Patterns

Mind read – Claiming to know someone feelings or emotions
Lost Performance – Value judgment
Cause & Effect – if this…then that
Complex Equivalent – Two things are made to be the same, “that means”, “because”
Universal Quantifiers – Every, all, never
Modal Operators – Implies possibility or necessity – should, shouldn’t, can’t must
Nominalization – Process words that are frozen in time and become nouns – “new learning’s”
Unspecified Verbs – adverb/adjective does not specify the verb – “Just do it”
Tab Question – Question at end of statement – “can’t you?”
Lack of Referential Index – Phrase that does not pick out listeners’ experience – “one can do, anyone can do”
Competitive Deletion – Comparison made and is not specified as to what or whom – “more or less the right thing”
Pace Current Experience, aka the yes set – persons verifiable experience is described in a way that is undeniable
Double Bind – Statement that delivers two choices, both of which are desirable separated by “or”
Conversational Postulate – A question delivered in such a way that answering “no” would be crazy.
Extended quotes – A statement with a quote that is extended beyond “normal” and the deliverer of the statement keeps making their point.
Selectional Restriction Violation - A sentence that is not well formed that in that only humans and animals have feelings – “the walls have ears”
Ambiguity – Two words that sound the same and have different meanings, “here, hear
Utilization – using everything that happens or is said

Meta Model (chunks down)

The meta model was the first model presented by Bandler and Grinder in 1975 based on Fritz Perls and Virginia Satir together with some language categories from transformation syntax. It consists of categories of questions or heuristics which seek to challenge linguistic distortion, clarify generalization and recover deleted information which occurs in a speaker’s language. Typically, questions may be in the form of “What X, specifically?”, “How specifically?”, “According to whom?” and “How do you know that?”. Whereas the meta model is very specific, the Milton model was described by the authors as intentionally vague. Many of the Milton model patterns are intentionally distorted, generalized and deleted.

Distortions
- Get clarity by asking “how” questions
Generalizations
- Get clarity by asking “What” and “what would happen if”
Deletions
- Get clarity by denationalization and what/whom specifically

Again if you’d like to learn more about NLP you can visit http://nlp.com

If you’d like to me to expand on any of the information above please let me know in the comments below.

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NLP Training – Day 1

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Jun 262010

It’s been great first day of NLP training with Dr. Matthew James and my head is about to explode! I can’t imagine what it will feel like at the end of day 8!

To help me comprehend the material I created an overview/outline of day one. I though it would be interesting to share this with you so that you might begin to contemplate the results you’re getting in life and know that you can do something to improve them.

You can find a validation for or against any belief or position, which one do I choose to focus on? The ones that support what you want or the ones that do not support what you want?

Themes

Empowerment
Perception is Projection
Nero Transmitter baths every cell in out body
Responsibility for Change

Empowerment

Cause & Effect
- Your either on the cause side or the effect side – you have a choice.
At some level you have created every experience (for some learning) and will continue to get these experiences until the learning is understood.
Cause = Responsibility
Effect = Reason (excuses)
This is not about fault it’s about taking responsibility
The goal in life is move from Effect to Cause
Focus on what you want – not what you don’t want
I am a caring person and I don’t care about your excuses, I care about your results.
There are many areas of life where you are at cause (reasonable for the results), i.e. paying bills.
You are the captain of your ship, pilot of your plane and driver of your bus.
Empowerment is using tools and techniques to move from the effect side to the cause side and then create my life the way I want to.

Perception is Projection

2 M bits of information coming into us
126 bits of info make it to our conscious awareness
We generalize, delete or distort the info
Internal representation
- VAKOG (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, gustatory)
- 7 +- 2 chunks of info
- NLP helps change the internal representation
State
- Emotions, feelings
- Time empowerment helps remove negative emotions, i.e. anger, fear, sadness, guilt
- Our sate assists in determining our experience
Physiology
- Behavior is unconscious
- Change the physical change the state and internal representation, but only temporary.
It is through our values, beliefs, experiences, and “knowledge” that we create our filters and hence our experience…our ‘reality.’
We can change these filters at anytime to allow more ‘positive’ and supportive information into our conscious.
Change all three aspects, i.e. Internal Representation, State and Physiology then change is permanent

Nero Transmitter (chemical)

Everywhere in our body, not just the brain
Mind/Body connection
Every cell in our body is bathed in our thoughts
The world we experience in completely in our head (internal representation)
There are more neurological connections in the human body and brain then stars in the sky and sand on the all the beaches. Our cells are bathed in our thoughts.

Responsibility

We are the only one responsible for our change and results
Through mental strength process like NLP, hypnosis, Time Empowerment we can make the change happen easily and swiftly
I create my life and the way I want it.
I’m in charge of rapport

NLP

A ‘do with’ process as opposed to a ‘do to’ process
Our words don’t describe our world, they create it.
Outcome – know what you want
Rapport – Developing flexibility
Language – Communication has an affect
Sensory Acuity – Knowing when you are getting what you want.
NLP is essentially a pattern interrupt

Unconscious

All learning, behavior and change is at the unconscious level
If the unconscious is not cleared of negative baggage, i.e. anger, sadness, fear, guilt, it cannot be aligned with the conscious, the Law of Attraction and all its’ techniques will not work.
When the unconscious is cleared of negative baggage and aligned with the conscious The Law of Attraction works perfectly

Please let me know what area you would like me to go into more detail in the comments below. Also, if you’d like to learn more about NLP training please visit – http://nlp.com