John Morgan Newsletter – S P A C E S

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 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.com and going to the CDs section.

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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