Your World

Life Coach, NLP + Hypnosis Portland, Oregon: Snap Out of Your Trance: Invent Your World

Noticing differences is the essence of mindfulness. If you want to re-invent your world, question authority, the status quo and learn to identify the exceptions, the differences.

Using self-hypnosis is helpful.

Try this:

1. Breathe in to the count of 6, hold the breath for a 6 count and exhale slowly to 12.
2. Repeat 3 times.
3. Look up to the ceiling of the room you’re in and stare at a corner.
4. Choose a quality, behavior or fantasy you want to include in your life.
5. Focus on this exclusively and snap out of your current trance.
6. Feel the space in the room around you from your left shoulder then your right shoulder
7. Feel the space around you from behind, above and below you.
8. Consider what you want until your mind naturally leaves it.
9. Relax a while longer, then stop looking at the ceiling.

Enjoy taking steps toward change.

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Create Your World

Life Coach, NLP + Hypnosis Portland, Oregon: We Create Our World

An exciting part of my work with clients is to see them awaken to the idea that since they created their world, they can make changes in it.

The lens you use to see the world might have been influenced by someone in your life 50 years ago, but you can change that old lens and upgrade.

Understanding that you can change if you want to is liberating. Finding your old resources failing you can be the motivation for choosing a new lens.

Reviewing what you value and how you make choices in your life will give you new information. The object is to break the mold and step out of your comfort zone. This is where creativity resides.

Hypnosis and self-hypnosis can be helpful as you work on re-framing your perspective.

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Starting Point

Life Coach, NLP + Hypnosis Portland, Oregon: Where to Start the Smallest Next Step: Change Your Starting Point

By trying out different things without evaluating or judging ourselves as we go along, we can choose to start a new behavior or habit without a negative bias.

We can vary our starting points and decide to take the smallest next step by using a more positive and less negative approach.

Start to think differently about what a starting point is and re-think your smallest next step.

Reconsider adhering, trance-like, to the statistical averages of what’s normal or acceptable. Instead, consider being motivated by the exception to the rule.

Enjoy playing around with your goals. The process is the point.

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Your Potential

Life Coach, NLP + Hypnosis Portland, Oregon: Working Toward Your Potential

Author Ellen Langer in her ‘psychology of possibility’ talks about how we start with the wrong assumption that we do not know what we can do to become more than we are.

She talks about raising the bar for ourselves and rather than starting from the point of ‘what is’, we could start from the point of what we would like to be.

As you begin, you can ask yourself  how you might reach the goal or make progress toward it. It’s a subtle change in thinking, although not difficult to make once we realize how stuck we are by a culture that limits our perspective.

This is where the NLP technique of modeling can be useful. We can discover our potential by finding and identifying the distinctions of another’s process, say, someone we admire, and studying these qualities until we incorporate them into our daily lives.

This is just one way to work toward your potential. Using self-hypnosis while studying and learning new perspectives and behaviors can be helpful.

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New Grow

Life Coach, NLP + Hypnosis Portland, Oregon: The Future of NLP in Portland, Oregon: Growth in 2012

You know you’re using the right tools in your coaching practice when the emails pile-up, the phone starts ringing more often and potential clients are asking for interventions using one of your tools.

NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming) is the tool people have been calling about. ‘Can you use NLP to help me focus ?” “Yes” I reply, and off we go into an engaging conversation about the many uses and positive results of this modality.

It’s clear to me that NLP has a bright future in Portland as I notice a steady rise in the use of it within the hypnosis practices, life coaching and psycho therapeutic practices around town.

An awareness of ‘Mindfulness’ ( vs ‘mindlessness’) and the various approaches to its uses include the use of NLP Modelling. You don’t need to be Buddhist to be mindful, you simply need to notice the little things in life and practice curiosity.

NLP modeling is a method that involves identifying and utilizing the distinctions discovered when you study exceptional behavior and people.

We ask ‘how’ they do what is exceptional and study the distinctions that describe the exceptional writer or musician or mechanic. You can notice the exception rather than the rule and be more creative in your daily life as a result of this different perspective.

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Love Becomes You

Life Coach Portland, Oregon: Be in the Trance of Love: You Become Yourself

Enjoy considering this:

Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Be in the trance of love

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Love All Ways

Life Coach, Portland, Oregon: Be in the Trance of Love: Never Stop Loving

Can you feel it? Can you feel the smile on your face when you consider those you love?

And those who love you?

Consider this:

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald

Be in the trance of love.

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You Are Loved

Life Coach Portland, Oregon: Be in the Trance of Love: How Can You Tell if You are Loved?

Love conquers all?

Consider all the ways you love others including the
animals, nature and yourself.

Now look around you and notice how much you are loved by others.

Where there is love there is life.
Mohandas Gandhi

Enjoy your trance of love.

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Happy Valentine's Day

Life Coach Portland, Oregon: Be in a Trance of Love: Happy Valentine’s Day

Love is a quality, a condition, a basic need to give and receive, that we all cherish.

Enjoy your day…be in a loving trance and consider these quotes from 2 people I admire:

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.
Tagore

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Maya Angelou

Enjoy your trance of love.

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Love

Life Coach Portland, Oregon: Be in the Trance of Love This Week: A Brief History of Valentine’s Day

Valentine greetings were popular as far back as the Middle Ages, though written Valentine’s didn’t begin to appear until after 1400. The oldest known valentine still in existence today was a poem written in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt.

Typical Valentine’s Day Greetings
In addition to the United States, Valentine’s Day is celebrated in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France and Australia. In Great Britain, Valentine’s Day began to be popularly celebrated around the 17th century.

By the middle of the 18th, it was common for friends and lovers of all social classes to exchange small tokens of affection or handwritten notes.

By 1900 printed cards began to replace written letters due to improvements in printing technology. Ready-made cards were an easy way for people to express their emotions in a time when direct expression of one’s feelings was discouraged.

Americans probably began exchanging hand-made valentines in the early 1700s. In the 1840s, Esther A. Howland began selling the first mass-produced valentines in America.

Howland, known as the “Mother of the Valentine,” made elaborate creations with real lace, ribbons and colorful pictures known as “scrap.”

Today, according to the Greeting Card Association, an estimated 1 billion Valentine’s Day cards are sent each year, making Valentine’s Day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year. Women purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines.

Be in the trance of love all week and consider the following quote:
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne

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