Goals & Specifics July 13, 2009
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There are some business goals I have been working on for about a year now. Let’s be kind and just say that progress was slow–think in terms of glaciers. A few weeks ago, I began working with a business partner. His skill sets are different from mine, and that is a good thing.
Through him, I have found out that I was basically going about the whole process wrong. It is not that the things he is suggesting are all that esoteric or obscure. Nope. I just did not go looking at these areas for ideas on how best to do the projects.
You could say Idid not do my homework (didn’t). But that sort of accusation does little to prevent future occurances. As I look back over the goals I set up, I was just to damned specific in the “hows” of what I wanted to accomplish. Had I left those areas a little more vague, I might have been open to looking around to alternative approaches.
In the long run, it may be a blessing in disguise. My partner is good at things that I am not, and I am good at things that he is not. I think we have a great future together.
In the meantime, when I set up new goals, the “hows” are going to be real vague.
Turning Points Or Tipping Points? June 24, 2009
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I was watching a Frank Kern video last night, where he talked about making a decision that changed his life–and it impacted a number of his friends. And they made decisions that impacted his life. And so on.
But do most of us actually make decisions? Do we really decide what we want and go after it? Or do we drift along until the current becomes overwhelming and we are thrown onto a new path (more a tipping point than a turning point)?
In my younger days, my life was largely one of drifting into the tipping points. I’ve never been afraid to make a decision, but so many of them were “bad” decisions because they were so heavily influenced by the subconscious emotions.
More and more, I am moving into a world, where I make decisions consciously. That is not to say that my conscious mind has taken over for the subconscious. I am not so naive to believe that such a thing is even possible–nor would I want it. No, I am saying that I have cleaned out enough of the garbage and crap in the subconscious that I can now communicate with it in ways not possible before.
And this clean up, this taking out the mental garbage, has been almost totally done with NLP techniques. For that, I am truly thankful.
That is what NLP has done for me.
Lost? No Longer Lost? May 18, 2009
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I admit that I am a fan of the quirky guilty pleasure. After watching the finale, I poked around on some of the fan website. Most of the talk seemed to center around Jacob and the symbolism of his name. Lots of references to the Christian Bible. Maybe they are on to something. Maybe not.
As I watched the different beach scenes from different time period with colossal statue, I thought there was no question that it was Egyptian. For one thing, the statue is holding an Ankh in each hand. That is the symbol of LIFE from ancient Egypt. It can also represent life and death, balance of energies, male/female. And the tapestry that Jacob is weaving sure looks Egyptian to me, but I only saw glimpses of it.
And it was necessary for the Oceanic Six to return to the Island. Jack originally brought his father to the Island in a coffin. Now, Locke had to substitute for the father and return in the coffin in Jack’s fathers (Christian???) place.
And at the end, we find out that the Locke we’ve watched for the last couple of weeks is really a much older character seen briefly at the beginning of the finale with Jacob. He tells Jacob that he wants to kill him and that he is looking for a loophole. Just before “Locke” orders Ben to kill Jacob, Jacob looks at him as says “you found your loophole.”
Is any of this starting to sound familiar? How about Osiris and Isis and their prolonged battle with Seth, evil brother of Osiris. There are several versions of the Osiris myth (many of them can be found with a simple Google search). But they all involve the fight between Osiris and Seth, Seth sending Osiris’s body away in a coffin, Isis bringing the coffin back so that Osiris can come back to life and rule, further treachery, and eventually Horus (son of Osiris), returning to do battle with Seth (good vs. evil). Eventually, Osiris will come back to life and rule all the earth.
Many mythology scholars argue that the Osiris myth was the model of the Jesus myth that the RCC has promulgated since 324.
It is not a one-to-one match, but I think this is where the final season is headed. Maybe Jack’s dad (Christian) will be revealed to be Osiris returned to life to rule the living and dead. The Egyptians have always said that Christianity is “their” religion with different names and labels.
Four Christs & NLP April 27, 2009
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As an undergraduate, I remember a social-psych professor raving about a book called The Three Christs of Ypsilanti (1964) by Milton Rokeach. Ypsilanti is a small town between Ann Arbor and Detroit on I-94 (that road probably did not exist in ‘64). Rokeach was a hot-shot professor at U of M in Ann Arbor. Ypsilanti State Hospital was home of a bunch of people who had been declared insane for one reason or another.
Three of the inmates all claimed to be Jesus Christ. Rokeach got the idea of bringing all three together in a sort of group therpay program. He figured that when confronted with each other’s delusion, it would force them back to reality. Not so. To cut to the chase, the three Christs came together in what amounted to a “mastermind group” to help each other further their delusions along. So much for group therapy.
And before I get hate mail from the psych dudes and dudettes, let me acknowledge that it is a classic. It is well worth reading — and my recollection is that it reads more like a novel than an accademic tome.
Fast forward a decade or so and shift west 2200 miles or so to another mental institution in CA. Here they have only one “Christ” at the moment. Richard Bandler gets called in for a consult–this was the hot-n-heavy times after the Time Magazine cover for the two modest saviors of therapy.
On his first visit, Bandler interviews “Christ” for a few minutes and tells him he will see him later. A few days later, Bandler returns dressed as a blue collar worker. He was wearing a tool belt and dragging two huge boards. When he came into the room, he did not even acknowledge “Christ.” Bandler set about working on the boards and measuring “Christ’s” height and wing span.
Of course, “Christ” is becoming more and more curious and keeps asking questions, which Bandler ignores. Finally, displaying a fair amount of annoyance, Bandler turns to him and says more than asks, “I’m busy. I have to get this done. So you are Jesus Christ, right?”
“Christ” responds, “Yes.”
Bandler says, “Okay, it seems to me we have a destiny awaiting us. You are Jesus Christ. I am a Jew. Easter is just around the corner. I have to get this thing put together to fulfill my part of our destiny.”
At this point, “Christ” decided he was not really Jesus. He was just Joe the Plumber or whatever he had been before being committed. Bandler was more committed to his delusion than he was.
My point is not to poke fun at the mentally ill. When you are working with other people, you can try to force them into your world (group therapy approach) or you can climb inside their world and work from there. That is what you learn to do in NLP. It is a far more effective approach–sanity or lack thereof is not an issue. This principle cuts across all levels of society.
My whole Basic NLP class is available on CDs. It is a great way to learn these skills at your own pace in the privacy of your home, office or car.
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Why Bother With Past Lives? April 24, 2009
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First of all, let me say that I do not necessarily believe in past lives? But you should also know that I do not necessarily believe in planets or stars, virginity, childhood or the Easter Bunny. They may or may not be there, too. I’m fine with that. Or, maybe they are not there until someone notices them? And do they go away if we all stop noticing them? Could be.
But here is what I do know. Your subconscious mind believes in what we call past lives, whether you do or not. How do I know this? As a hypnotist, I’ve spent a lot of hours talking to subconscious minds. They are a hell of a lot more entertaining than most conscious ones. (There is another concept to question its existence: hell.)
One of the things that hypnotists do is ask the subconscious mind “what is the source of the problem that you are experiencing?” Sometimes the subconscious goes back to childhood, but many times it says it is something that happened before you got to this planet. And since most of us did not show up here on a star ship, it follows that . . .
And if you go back and locate an incident (memory) in a past life, clear up the energy on that memory, and now the problem goes away, then is not that reason enough to mess with past lives. And the flip side of that coin is that if you do not clear up the past life memory, the problem persists no matter what else you do.
So, why bother with Past Lives? To make this life better. I have an upcoming training program focused on how to clean up PL patterns quickly. Here is the link:
http://www.success-is-easy.com/PastLife.htm
NLP & Sports–Golf March 22, 2009
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NLP has always been concerned with excellence. That dedication is one of the core conecpts of modeling, is it not? So, it is not surprising that many of us become fascinated with sports. Not the usual fascination, with batting avreages and free throw percentages and things like that.
No, the NLPer wants to know what the athelete is doing inside his mind as he plays. Let’s set natural talent aside: for instance, in tennis Nadal has shots and moves in a way that say, Justin Gimblestob, never could no matter how much he practiced. There are physical differences from one person to the next. But, I would argue, those differences are far less of the outcome than what goes on inside the mind.
Being in Florida, you cannot swing a dead cat around without hitting a golfer–golf courses are everywhere. I live across the street from one–and I am not a golfer. But I have worked with a lot of them to help improve their game. In the same vein, I have worked with a lot of pregnant women to help them prepare for childbirth, even though it is physically impossible for me to become pregnant!
Most golf gurus tell their students to focus on some particular part of the body during the swing. The body has between 650 and 690 muscles (different text books give different numbers). Six-fifty is the bottom one, so let’s stick with it. How many things can you consciosuly be aware of? It is the old 7+ or – 2 rule. The conscious mind is going to be over whelmed real fast!
That is just one of the mental mistakes golfers make. I’ve compiled a list of what I believe to be the Top Ten Mental Mistakes golfers make. I just did a press release on this list. If you want to take a look at it, here is the link:
Parts Is Parts March 1, 2009
Posted by Peter O'Dell in Uncategorized.Tags: Internal Conflicts, NLP, Parts Integration, Parts Work
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If you are even half as old as I am, you probably remember that line from a fast-food ad of the 80s. Patron: What part of the chicken does this come from? Dumb Kid Clerk: Parts is Parts.
I love NLP and what it has done for me. But loving something does not mean ignoring its inherent weaknesses. One aspect of NLP that always bothered me was “parts” work. If you are not familiar with NLP and parts work, here is the25-word summary: Parts are sub-personalities that function inside our minds in a semi-autonomous way. Also, they almost always are stuck in time and function at the level of a small child–not particularly resourceful. When we feel like we are at war with ourselves, it is almost always a parts conflict.
When I first got involved, an internal conflict was resolved with The Visual Squash. Done in the classic format, that can take well over 30 minutes. And it is boring as hell. Just sitting there watching your client’s hands move in that jerky fashion. And, although not impossible, it is not easy to do for yourself. But it works, and I did it until something better came along.
Something better was still the same process, but using hypnotic language patterns to accelerate the “squash.” Finally, somebody came up with the idea of using sliding anchors. Now, instead of 30 minutes, it is only maybe 5 to 7.
But you still have to play “Philadelphia Lawyer” with the parts. And some parts do not like that! Imagine! Some parts just do not want to cooperate, no matter how much you suck up to them. Of course, if you have a couple of hours, you can always do Core Transformation. That always seems to work, but I’m not very patient. My bad.
So, I kept experimenting with clients trying to find a faster, easier way do resolve parts problems, even with the shy or uncooperative part. Finally, I stumbled across a process using the client’s timeline that speeds things up dramatically. And the part does not have to do anything, or cooperate or whatever. The whole process is controlled by the client. At the end, the part is dramatically changed.
My first target after working with my own parts, was smokers. In two minutes or less, the part that has just been dying for a smoke is totally turned around and telling the client to give it up now! I do not know what the limitations are on this process, because I have not found a parts issue where it does not work.
So, do you have any internal conflicts that are blocking you? Ever feel like you are shooting yourself in the foot? Is it time to clean up the mess inside?
It seems to me that there might be some other hypnotists/NLPers/therapy types that would be interested in learning to do this process, too. So, I decided to offer a training to the public. If the economy were better, I probably would not consider teaching this process to anyone for less than $500, which is what I charge individuals for my stop smoking program. But everyone is hurting now, so I figure it is time to take a different approach.
I am going to do a tele-class (call in on the telephone) and teach it to as many people as I can. It is so simple to do, that you will learn it in an hour or so. You do not have to know anything about timelines or parts (won’t hurt you if you do). When the class is done, you can fix yourself (or your clients, if you are working with them). There is nothing to buy after the class, either–I detest those “bait and switch” product launches.
Not $500. Not $300. Not even $99 nor that magic number of $47 (Where the hell did that figure come from?)
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“A New Hope” January 21, 2009
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Today I had a rebirth or sorts. Today I felt a pride in being a citizen of this country that I had not felt in forty years or so. When I was in college, I campaigned for Bobby Kennedy, because I believed in him. He was a leader that could unite the country. He was a leader that cared. We would build a better nation for everyone, not just the privileged. The day he was murdered was one of the saddest in my life. The hero was gone, and there weren’t any others around. There simply was no one to pick up that mantle and carry on.
Today, we saw a man take the oath of office that is a worthy successor of Bobby. He has united the country (or at least a big part of it). He does care. We will build a better nation for everyone, not just the privileged.
As my wife and I were talking about this new hope, we were looking over the orders that had come in for the Inauguration Day Sale (you know I did not start out calling it that–I’m turning over a new leaf). She said I should think like Obama. Why should this be only one day?
She was right (usually is, too, damn it). So the sale will go one for the rest of the week in honor of our New Hope.
Here is the deal, starting at 12 midnight Monday and lasting until 12 midnight Saturday, everything on our web site will be half price. Take the live class – half price. Gift certificate – half price. CDs – half price. You get the idea.
But come midnight Saturday, everything goes back to regular price.
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“I Was So Drunk I Could Barely Stand Up–And I Was Leaning Against The Bar” January 15, 2009
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“I Was So Drunk I Could Barely Stand Up – And I Was Leaning Against The Bar”
Booze made my life tolerable. Actually, my life itself was not all that bad, but I despised myself and what I thought I had done. Huge opportunities. Even bigger failures. Rye and corn whiskey numbed the pain.
The saloon was dimly lit even though it was mid-afternoon. The dimmer the better, as far as I was concerned. I just wanted to go numb. But the jackass next to me wasn’t about to leave me alone. He wanted to pick a fight. And I wanted to drink myself to oblivion.
“Squaw man. You are a God Damned squaw man.” he kept saying that over and over.
My skin was white. But the only time I wanted to be around the whites was when I was binging. After the debacle back home, I had rejoined the Cherokee. That was right after the The Trail of Tears. Those that were left of the People were living on the edge of what the whites called the Frontier.
Jackass kept saying it over and over again—he was as drunk as I was. And it was getting to me. Easy to transfer the hate I felt for myself to this idiot next to me.
In this life, I have strong legs, but the upper body could use some work—not much in the way of strength. And I’m right handed. Suddenly, I felt a surge of power in my left arm. Maybe it was 10 times stronger than it is in this life. “My” right arm was useless—think it was from a wound or something. But the left packed a wallop. I hit the SOB as hard as I could. An upper cut to his left chin. He went flying across the room and hit the wall. I took another sip of whiskey.
“Squaw man! Look at me, you bastard!”
I staggered around and faced him. He was upright and had cocked a muzzle-loading pistol. As drunk as he was, it was aimed square at my chest.
“I’ll kill you!” he seethed.
I just stared at him and didn’t say a word. But inside I was praying that he would pull the trigger. Please do it. You have no idea how much I want to die.
But the barkeep had other ideas. He had a club behind the bar, and he knew how to use it. With a crash, it came down across the idiot’s forearm. The gun fired, and I felt this awful pain in my right foot.
The regression ended there.
This was June of 1992, and I was lying on a bed in the Hilton Hotel in Tarrytown, NY. A class mate (in a Dick Sutphen hypnosis training program) had regressed me back to a past life that was impacting my current life. I had visited this Frontier lifetime before, but this was a new chapter. And it explained something that was happening in 1992.
For the last three months, I had lived the life of a cripple. My right foot had developed an excruciating pain that made it almost impossible to walk. I had gone through a series of orthopods finally ending up with the Chief of Foot and Ankle Surgery at Mt Sinai in NYC.
There was nothing wrong with my foot except that I had lost all muscle tension in it. He had me in an extensive PT program three times a week. Up to this point, progress had been minimal. After this regression, my foot rapidly returned to normal. Sixteen years later, the problem has never come back.
So, I could have just been very thankful for this healing and forgotten about my frontier alter ego. But there was a lot of unresolved pain back there. And there was a lot of energy and skill that I could tap into. He had gone on to be involved with the Texas fight for independence. A minor politician, but he had accomplished a lot.
And I have other past lives with pain—and with untapped skills. So do you. Then, the question is how do you wipe out the negative energy and reclaim your power and reclaim your skills from these alter egos?
Turns out, it is far easier than it may seem on the surface or than what some Gurus have told us. That is exactly what we will be doing in the Past Life Parts Party Tele-Class coming up at the end of this month. Click Here Now for details.
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