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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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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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Improve Self-Talk

Life Coach, NLP & Hypnosis, Portland, Oregon:5 Steps Toward Great Communication: Step # 5: Improving Self-Talk and Communication

Improving your self-talk can be easy and fun. First you must identify it and have a strong feeling that you’d like to make a change.

Once you’ve defined it, be clear about what you want.

Try this:

1. Breathe in to the count of 6, hold the breath for 6 and exhale slowly to your internal count of 12.
2. Feel the increase in relaxation and focus.
3. Consider what control you’d like to have of your internal dialogue.
4. Understand that it’s possible to change and direct it.
5. Begin by noticing the activities, tasks of the day that went the way you wanted and find a simple way to praise yourself. ‘Good job’.
6. ‘Good job’ may be overused, but it says it. I say ‘good job’ to myself after completing a task and I feel refreshed by it and a freedom to continue to the next thing.
7. What could you say to yourself that is helpful?
8. Be a good parent to yourself. A good teacher.
9. Make corrections when necessary, but don’t dwell on the negative stuff.
10. When a criticism comes, say ‘cancel, cancel’…and move on…

By improving how and what you say to yourself, you’ll improve your communication with others.

Enjoy!

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Someone's Voice

Life Coach, NLP & Hypnosis, Portland Oregon: 5 Steps Toward Great Communication: Step # 3: Whose Voice is in Your Head?

At first this may seem like a strange question, but really…can you hear another person’s voice in your head?

Do you hear a critical voice at times and think it’s your conscience guiding you? You may have a (lingering) parent giving you instructions during critical times.

In order to remove the parent guiding your thoughts, you must first
take the time to be still, be quiet and listen. Who is it and what are they saying?

1. Next, ask yourself if you agree.
2. If you don’t agree, then it’s time for you to make some changes and identify your own view of life.
3. Take the time to recognize when you have another’s voice talking and acting through you.

How liberating is it to be in charge of your own thoughts?

Enjoy!

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How Does it Feel?

Hypnotherapy Portland, Oregon: Self-Hypnosis: Feeling Kindness

How does kindness feel? Ask anyone these days…most people have experienced a change in their lives that came from an outside source, even a global source.

Feeling kindness toward yourself and others comes easier if you have a mindfulness practice or a practice of self-hypnosis.

1. Breathe in to the count of 6, hold for 6 and exhale to the internal count of 12. The exhale is always twice as long as the inhale. Try it and see what hold count you like.
2. Next, define kindness for yourself. Feeling kindness.
3. Make the simple suggestion aloud so that you form a complete thought.
4. You will now see many different representations of kindness flash before your mind’s eye.
5. Continue to relax.
6. Give yourself a count of 5 to come back to a waking alertness.

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