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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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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