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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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Voice in Your Head

Life Coach, NLP & Hypnosis, Portland Oregon: 5 Steps Toward Great Communication: Step # 4: Self-Talk

What are you saying to yourself all day long?

Self-talk is very revealing.

In my last post I wrote about having another’s voice in your head. Once you can tell the difference between your voice and another’s, you can pay close attention to how well you’re treating yourself.

Watch and listen to your self-talk and it will tell you if you’re gentle and kind with yourself and others.

It will tell you if you’re too busy by contradicting itself or talking at multiple levels as yet another thought pops into your head. Monkey mind.

Self-talk can start leaking out of your brain through your mouth as you
talk to yourself aloud. Sometimes this works to keep you on task, but control of your self-talk is an essential ingredient to lead your on-purpose life.

What do you think?

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Showing Kindness

Hypnotherapy Portland, Oregon: Self-Hypnosis: Showing Kindness

As you learn to be kind to yourself first, showing kindness to others is easy. You are attentive, patient and helpful.

In each of our lives I’m sure there are many opportunities  for us to show kindness to others.

Self-hypnosis can help you make improvements to the qualities that you may be lacking. Perhaps you want to stay out of the trance of complaining, keeping yourself distant from others.

By using the breathing rule, creating a simple statement that reflects your desire for change and relaxing into self-hypnosis, you can make amazing improvements.

Repetition and reinforcement are essential.

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Hypnotherapy Portland, Oregon: Smoking: 5 Excuses
Excuse number 5: Smoking Feels Like a Friend

I am sympathetic to those who feel their bad habits are like a friend. While feeling empathy for these folks, I can say that it’s understandable how smoking can feel this way; you have control over the process, the give and take, the paraphernalia, the smokescreen…

But wait!

It’s the same as being a child with an invisible friend. Children benefit from this fantasy by developing positive intentions, utilizing their creativity and by sometimes filling a hole of loneliness.

But children don’t smoke (hopefully).

When smokers tell me they feel lonely, I use hypnotherapy to help them realize the depth of their inner resources (and there is always so much more there than you can imagine) as well as helping them stop using the habit.

You just can’t justify this excuse without wondering if there isn’t more to life.

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Hypnotherapy Portland, Oregon: Smoking : 5 Excuses
Excuse number 4: Smoking Keeps You Busy

To the non-smoker, this statement, ‘smoking keeps you busy’ is just nuts. I didn’t make this up. There are many smokers out there that will tell you they don’t know what to do with their hands when they don’t have the prop of a cigarette between their fingers.

They have integrated this prop into their social expression.

One thing to help would be to notice what non-smokers do with their hands when they’re talking, socializing.

If you need a substitute for fiddling with your cigarette pack, lighter, matches…take up knitting, doodling drawing…

Once you use hypnosis to stop smoking, you’ll realize that you can be much more expressive in conversation with your hands free. Or you can be more attentive with your hands being still while listening to another.

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