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By Scott E. Duvall CHt. NLP.
By Scott E. Duvall CHt. NLP.
Experience is life.
In talking with some of my clients I’ve found that it’s becoming progressively harder to stay relaxed, focused
and optimistic in light of the current economy, and I’m reminded of a great metaphor which if I remember
correctly goes something like this” There was a manager of a large shoe manufacturing plant on the east
cost of America. Wanting to expand his sales and increase his companies market share, he hired a sales
representative to go to a far off African city to see what the possible sales potential would be. After weeks
and weeks of collecting data, looking at the people and their life style there, the salesman returned home
only to report that there would be little or no opportunity for sales in this city because people there just
didn't’t wear shoes. Not being the type of person to give up easily the manager sent a different sales
representative back to the same city, and after just a few short days the salesman excitedly telephoned the
office manager and said, that he should quickly send lots of inventory, because hardly anyone had the
opportunity to wear shoes yet”. I love this story because it points out how we can get locked into seeing only
what we expect to see. Because we have become locked in our own habitual pattern of perception many of
us have become limited in seeing and utilizing all the resources available to us. As human beings we
perceive and experience the world around us through one or various combination of our five senses,
challenges occur when we get stuck using only one or to few of them. Most of us are ether visual or
kinesthetic, however some are auditory, with even fewer being smell or taste oriented. Understanding the
way we extract information from the world outside ourselves give us a better understanding of how we
communicate with ourselves internally. There are a variety of ways to identify your modality of perception,
linguistically you can listen to the words you use to describe your life experiences, someone who says that
they are blue, or unclear, or can’t focus is most likely coming from a visual connection, while someone
stating they are feeling down, or life is hard, or I just can’t get a grip on it, is coming from the kinesthetic
experience with life. You can also gain a better understanding of where someone is coming from by
watching their eye direction during a conversation, the general role is, but not always, is that for the visual
person their eyes go up when they are talking, a kinesthetic person will look down and an auditory person
will look from side to side. Try this on yourself or with a person you are having a conversation with, I know
you’ll get a clearer understanding of where they are coming from. The advantage of knowing your own
modality of perception is in your own problem solving abilities, if you’re feeling stuck, or you can’t see a
solution, try experiencing the situation from a alternate sensatory input, instead of trying to change the way
you feel create a mental picture or a color and change it to something that looks better. If you can’t seem to
see a solution give it a sound and then change the pitch or rhythm until it sounds right to you, all of these
actions create changes in the unconscious mind and create new neurological and chemical pathway to the
brain giving you a more in-depth understanding of yourself and giving you better problem solving
alternatives. You can allow yourself to learn more about your own modalities of perception, as well as
improving your health and well being, by reading about Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). Books like
Frogs to Princes or Time For a Change by Richard Bandler, are a surefire way for you to become more
empowered and quickly reach any desired outcomes you may have. Sometimes it’s just a matter of looking
at it differently and other times it’s finding a solution that sounds better to you, ether way your right.
Scott E. Duvall CHt. and NLP practitioner www.pdxhypnosis.com
In talking with some of my clients I’ve found that it’s becoming progressively harder to stay relaxed, focused
and optimistic in light of the current economy, and I’m reminded of a great metaphor which if I remember
correctly goes something like this” There was a manager of a large shoe manufacturing plant on the east
cost of America. Wanting to expand his sales and increase his companies market share, he hired a sales
representative to go to a far off African city to see what the possible sales potential would be. After weeks
and weeks of collecting data, looking at the people and their life style there, the salesman returned home
only to report that there would be little or no opportunity for sales in this city because people there just
didn't’t wear shoes. Not being the type of person to give up easily the manager sent a different sales
representative back to the same city, and after just a few short days the salesman excitedly telephoned the
office manager and said, that he should quickly send lots of inventory, because hardly anyone had the
opportunity to wear shoes yet”. I love this story because it points out how we can get locked into seeing only
what we expect to see. Because we have become locked in our own habitual pattern of perception many of
us have become limited in seeing and utilizing all the resources available to us. As human beings we
perceive and experience the world around us through one or various combination of our five senses,
challenges occur when we get stuck using only one or to few of them. Most of us are ether visual or
kinesthetic, however some are auditory, with even fewer being smell or taste oriented. Understanding the
way we extract information from the world outside ourselves give us a better understanding of how we
communicate with ourselves internally. There are a variety of ways to identify your modality of perception,
linguistically you can listen to the words you use to describe your life experiences, someone who says that
they are blue, or unclear, or can’t focus is most likely coming from a visual connection, while someone
stating they are feeling down, or life is hard, or I just can’t get a grip on it, is coming from the kinesthetic
experience with life. You can also gain a better understanding of where someone is coming from by
watching their eye direction during a conversation, the general role is, but not always, is that for the visual
person their eyes go up when they are talking, a kinesthetic person will look down and an auditory person
will look from side to side. Try this on yourself or with a person you are having a conversation with, I know
you’ll get a clearer understanding of where they are coming from. The advantage of knowing your own
modality of perception is in your own problem solving abilities, if you’re feeling stuck, or you can’t see a
solution, try experiencing the situation from a alternate sensatory input, instead of trying to change the way
you feel create a mental picture or a color and change it to something that looks better. If you can’t seem to
see a solution give it a sound and then change the pitch or rhythm until it sounds right to you, all of these
actions create changes in the unconscious mind and create new neurological and chemical pathway to the
brain giving you a more in-depth understanding of yourself and giving you better problem solving
alternatives. You can allow yourself to learn more about your own modalities of perception, as well as
improving your health and well being, by reading about Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). Books like
Frogs to Princes or Time For a Change by Richard Bandler, are a surefire way for you to become more
empowered and quickly reach any desired outcomes you may have. Sometimes it’s just a matter of looking
at it differently and other times it’s finding a solution that sounds better to you, ether way your right.
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Baylor Study Finds Hypnotic Relaxation Therapy
Minimizes Hot Flashes
With an estimated 85 percent of women experiencing hot flashes as they
approach menopause, finding effective non-medication treatment is vitally
important. A new Baylor University study shows hypnotic relaxation therapy
can decrease the frequency and severity of hot flashes in menopausal
women, including breast cancer survivors. Interference from hot flashes, like
loss of sleep and social interaction difficulties, also decreased in the majority
of women who received hypnosis.
"This study validates that this type of treatment is effective in decreasing hot
flashes," said Dr. Gary Elkins, professor of psychology and neuroscience at
Baylor. "There is a real need to study emerging mind-body interactions to
treating these ailments because many times medications are not an option."
See full article at
http://www.baylor.edu/pr/news.php?action=story&st
ory=53064
Minimizes Hot Flashes
With an estimated 85 percent of women experiencing hot flashes as they
approach menopause, finding effective non-medication treatment is vitally
important. A new Baylor University study shows hypnotic relaxation therapy
can decrease the frequency and severity of hot flashes in menopausal
women, including breast cancer survivors. Interference from hot flashes, like
loss of sleep and social interaction difficulties, also decreased in the majority
of women who received hypnosis.
"This study validates that this type of treatment is effective in decreasing hot
flashes," said Dr. Gary Elkins, professor of psychology and neuroscience at
Baylor. "There is a real need to study emerging mind-body interactions to
treating these ailments because many times medications are not an option."
See full article at
http://www.baylor.edu/pr/news.php?action=story&st
ory=53064
Can you imagine better health just by changing the thoughts your thinking? Yes just by becoming aware of
your thoughts and their underlying intentions we gain a better understanding of the feelings and emotions
that are created by them. The sub-conscious mind doesn't’t know the difference between a real life
experience and one that is vividly imagined. Both experiences producing the same Nero-chemical reactions
affecting the body and the mind.
With new found discoveries in the field of Quantum Physics, as well as research in cellular biology by Bruce
Lipton Ph.D. and others, we are hearing more and more about what is being called the body mind
connection. That our attitudes and beliefs, the way we view the world does have an effect on our physical
being all the way down to the development and evolutionary changes on a cellular level. These finding shed
a new light and add credibility to the ever growing acceptance of preventative and alternative medical
treatments like Acupuncture, Yoga, Meditation, Hypnosis, and Neuro linguistic programming (NLP). Science
can now prove that what we think does indeed affect the world around us and our physical bodies as well. It’
s common knowledge that stress is the leading cause of illness including high blood pressure, cancers, heart
attacks, and heart diseases, strokes, obesity, diabetes, the list goes on and on. The dictionary defines
Stress as; an applied force or system of forces that tends to strain or deform a body, a mentally or
emotionally disruptive or disquieting influence, distress.
The underlying effect that stress has on an emotional level is fear, and the body’s natural response to fear is
to switch into a survival mode called fight or flight. During this natural survival and defense mode the body is
flooded with adrenaline and cortical from the adrenal glands, digestion shuts down as the blood flows into
the arms and legs for needed defense actions, and our conscious awareness narrows to deal only with the
task at hand to fight or run away. This reduces our ability to see alternatives and resources that help us
cope and find solutions to the challenges we are experiencing. Although at one time this primal survival
ability was a blessing and kept us from being eaten by saber tooth tigers today it takes its toll on our bodies
and minds often unnecessarily. Left unchecked stress creates a resistance in our body’s hormone called
Leptin, what Byron j. Richards, CCN in his book Mastering Leptin called the key triad of Problem, Leptin
resistance, Insulin resistance, and Adrenaline resistance. This creates a wide range of physical problems in
the realm of obesity, weight gain and diabetes. We live in a world that promotes fear, just reading the news
paper or watching the nightly news on television can fill one with anxiety, we stress over money, politics,
rising children, family life, even enjoyable areas in our life promote stress like love, getting married, job
competition all combining to create the cloud of destructive stress.
So what are the first steps to clearing away the beliefs, emotions, and thoughts that create fear and stress
ether real or imagined?
In NLP we say that a problem well stated is a large part of the solution. We can understand and identify what
we want by looking at what we don’t want and then reversing those ideas to a positive image of how we want
our life to be. Living a healthy life is about finding your own natural balance of exercise and relaxation,
dietary intake, as well as mentally moving forward to goals or idea’s that keep you mentally, and spiritually
motivated and optimistic. You can also find quick and easy results from meditation, yoga, or just going for a
walk, keep it simple and something you truly enjoy doing. Breathing, relaxing, and visualizing the enjoyable
outcomes and experiences of life.
As you remember what you think about the most becomes your reality you can soon see that to be true.
Many individuals have been repeating these thoughts and pattern of stress for so long that they have
become a habit or an embedded belief on the sub conscious mind and that can be a challenge to correct.
Hypnosis is an excellent way create change quickly. Hypnosis creates changes in attitude, thoughts, and
beliefs through the use of trance and suggestion. By relaxing the body we relax the mind then through the
use of metaphor and creative visualization we have access to the creative sub-conscious by passing the
critical factor of the conscious mind, replacing outdated ideas and beliefs with new empowering ones. NLP is
an excellent way to connect with your own enter personal resources which helps you see and find
alternatives and solutions. NLP by definition is the study of the structure of subjective experience. The befits
of the combination of hypnosis and NLP can give you the ability to relax and gain a better understanding and
awareness of your thoughts and beliefs empowering you to move toward to a more relaxed, happier,
healthier life.
For more information feel free to contact Scott E. Duvall CHt. Consulting hypnotist and NLP practitioner.
www.pdxhypnosis.com
your thoughts and their underlying intentions we gain a better understanding of the feelings and emotions
that are created by them. The sub-conscious mind doesn't’t know the difference between a real life
experience and one that is vividly imagined. Both experiences producing the same Nero-chemical reactions
affecting the body and the mind.
With new found discoveries in the field of Quantum Physics, as well as research in cellular biology by Bruce
Lipton Ph.D. and others, we are hearing more and more about what is being called the body mind
connection. That our attitudes and beliefs, the way we view the world does have an effect on our physical
being all the way down to the development and evolutionary changes on a cellular level. These finding shed
a new light and add credibility to the ever growing acceptance of preventative and alternative medical
treatments like Acupuncture, Yoga, Meditation, Hypnosis, and Neuro linguistic programming (NLP). Science
can now prove that what we think does indeed affect the world around us and our physical bodies as well. It’
s common knowledge that stress is the leading cause of illness including high blood pressure, cancers, heart
attacks, and heart diseases, strokes, obesity, diabetes, the list goes on and on. The dictionary defines
Stress as; an applied force or system of forces that tends to strain or deform a body, a mentally or
emotionally disruptive or disquieting influence, distress.
The underlying effect that stress has on an emotional level is fear, and the body’s natural response to fear is
to switch into a survival mode called fight or flight. During this natural survival and defense mode the body is
flooded with adrenaline and cortical from the adrenal glands, digestion shuts down as the blood flows into
the arms and legs for needed defense actions, and our conscious awareness narrows to deal only with the
task at hand to fight or run away. This reduces our ability to see alternatives and resources that help us
cope and find solutions to the challenges we are experiencing. Although at one time this primal survival
ability was a blessing and kept us from being eaten by saber tooth tigers today it takes its toll on our bodies
and minds often unnecessarily. Left unchecked stress creates a resistance in our body’s hormone called
Leptin, what Byron j. Richards, CCN in his book Mastering Leptin called the key triad of Problem, Leptin
resistance, Insulin resistance, and Adrenaline resistance. This creates a wide range of physical problems in
the realm of obesity, weight gain and diabetes. We live in a world that promotes fear, just reading the news
paper or watching the nightly news on television can fill one with anxiety, we stress over money, politics,
rising children, family life, even enjoyable areas in our life promote stress like love, getting married, job
competition all combining to create the cloud of destructive stress.
So what are the first steps to clearing away the beliefs, emotions, and thoughts that create fear and stress
ether real or imagined?
In NLP we say that a problem well stated is a large part of the solution. We can understand and identify what
we want by looking at what we don’t want and then reversing those ideas to a positive image of how we want
our life to be. Living a healthy life is about finding your own natural balance of exercise and relaxation,
dietary intake, as well as mentally moving forward to goals or idea’s that keep you mentally, and spiritually
motivated and optimistic. You can also find quick and easy results from meditation, yoga, or just going for a
walk, keep it simple and something you truly enjoy doing. Breathing, relaxing, and visualizing the enjoyable
outcomes and experiences of life.
As you remember what you think about the most becomes your reality you can soon see that to be true.
Many individuals have been repeating these thoughts and pattern of stress for so long that they have
become a habit or an embedded belief on the sub conscious mind and that can be a challenge to correct.
Hypnosis is an excellent way create change quickly. Hypnosis creates changes in attitude, thoughts, and
beliefs through the use of trance and suggestion. By relaxing the body we relax the mind then through the
use of metaphor and creative visualization we have access to the creative sub-conscious by passing the
critical factor of the conscious mind, replacing outdated ideas and beliefs with new empowering ones. NLP is
an excellent way to connect with your own enter personal resources which helps you see and find
alternatives and solutions. NLP by definition is the study of the structure of subjective experience. The befits
of the combination of hypnosis and NLP can give you the ability to relax and gain a better understanding and
awareness of your thoughts and beliefs empowering you to move toward to a more relaxed, happier,
healthier life.
For more information feel free to contact Scott E. Duvall CHt. Consulting hypnotist and NLP practitioner.
www.pdxhypnosis.com
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