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Flowers
It's
summertime and the flowers are blooming. Did you
ever notice how much attention we pay to the bloom?
Think of a tulip. What popped into your mind first?
Most likely it was the shape of the bloom and
it's color. There's more to a flower than its
bloom and without these other elements there is
no pretty flower to see or any fragrant smell
to enjoy.
Not
too many people think about the stem or the roots,
the seed or the soil but they are all responsible
for the flowering bud.
We
all have an intellect and, as with flowers, we
think that's all there is to us. The intellect
is also a bloom. If we neglect to notice there
are other elements that get the intellect to flower,
we will be at the mercy of the type of thoughts
that bloom in our mind.
So
if your thinking stinks - you are sprouting weeds.
You want flowers but they can't grow because they
are being crowed out by weeds. You consciously
try and change your thoughts but that only works
for a little while and then your mental garden
becomes covered in weeds again. What to do?
Learn
that the self-talk that spouts in your head is
always a by-product of a picture (a self-image).
If your image of yourself is covered in weeds,
so will be your self-talk. The image drives drives
the thinking. Thinking about the thinking will
never change it. You must go to the source and
update the picture.
Self-Image
- a picture is worth a thousand pep talks2 is a recording I have
done that thousands of people have used to change
their self-image and one of the magical results
is a change in their thinking. You can find out
more about this amazing phenomenon by logging
on to http://JohnMorganSeminars.net/
and going to the Tapes/CD's
section.
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Happy
Summer!
We
closed out our Summer seminars by visiting the
West and Midwest. I had the privilege of visiting
many places for the first time and some terrific
memories from past visits. I got to see San Francisco
for the first time as well as Provo and Salt Lake
City, Utah. Driving from Boise, Idaho to Salt
Lake City, you are awestruck by the presence of
the mountains and the vastness of the territory.
Kansas City and Springfield, Missouri were as
special as I had remembered them. The Country
Club Plaza in Kansas City is a model of what city
shopping and dining can be. Springfield reminded
me of an incident 25 years ago when I took a challenge
and rode a Brahma Bull. I lasted 2.6 seconds and
the aches lasted for weeks. It was fun to be in
the Queen City of the Ozarks again.
Anchoring
Anchoring
is a technique I use in all of my workshops because
it is so effective. Here's are a couple of anchoring
exercises you can do to improve the type of feelings
you want to feel in your body.
Let's
pretend you have less than desirable feelings
going on in your body, and you don't know "why."
Your objective is to have to a more desirable
feeling. You can have the unknown stimulus trigger
the desired response. How?
First,
rehearse producing some calm, collected feelings.
In other words, think about a time you were calm
and collected. Feel what it felt like then. Do
this a few times until you're satisfied you know
what calm and collected feels like for you. Now
imagine yourself in a situation where some scary
feelings come up. As you begin to notice that
scary sensation, immediately ask your brain to
produce those calm and collected feelings. Rehearse
a number of situations where these scary feelings
inappropriately come up and immediately see, hear,
and feel yourself responding in the manner you
desire.
After
some rehearsal with this technique, the old stimulus
(even though you may not know its origin) begins
triggering the new response. The unknown stimulus
now becomes a trigger for your brain to anchor
the desired feelings. You've taken the subject
(stimulus) and reversed your response.
Russian
experimental physiologist, Ivan Pavlov referred
to this phenomenon as "Translation." As has been
well documented, his German shepherd dogs salivated
at the sight and smell of food. Pavlov paired
the sound of a bell to feeding time. After some
time, he would just ring the bell and the dogs
would salivate without any food being present.
Then "translation" took place. Here's how. Without
attending a seminar, the dogs began to salivate
when they heard their feeder's key going into
the lock. Then they began to translate and salivate
when they heard the feeder coming down the hall
to the kennel. Eventually they began to salivate
at the time of day the feeder regularly came.
Their brains were able to translate their response
to a different stimulus. Human beings have the
ability to translate and update a response to
any given stimulus.
Here's
another I learned from Dr. Dave Dobson. He calls
it USING YOUR NAME FOR A CHANGE.
When
you get some scary feelings that are not desirable
or appropriate, repeat your first name to yourself
over and over again. Your name is one of the first
auditory anchors you learned. It is how people
referred to this bundle of joy known as you. Remember
the tone of voice in which you speak to an infant.
Use that tone when you're saying your name to
yourself, and notice the calming influence you
have on your own nervous system. It seems silly
and it works!
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