Last week we played
with 5 top tips for generating passive income. This week, I'd like to share
a new tool with you that I learned from Nathaniel Branden, the author of
several books on self-esteem. In this article, I'm going to share a
technique with you that's incredibly powerful, yet simple enough to do in 2
minutes, anywhere & anywhen. Better yet, you can use it to increase whatever
it is that you desire in your life, from money, to success, to love,
awareness & anything else.
As you're
probably already aware, you can think of people as having a conscious mind &
an unconscious mind. If there's anything you've been trying to change (eg.
solve a problem, make a change, achieve a goal), but you just haven't seemed
to be able to do it until now, you can assume that your unconscious holds
the key.
But how can
you gain access to your deep unconscious wisdom?
NLP offers
a variety of techniques for doing this, many of them involving language.
Language generation is an unconscious skill: the processes you are using
when you're generating grammatical sentences are largely unconscious (the
processes you are using to make sense of this article are also unconscious
when you think about it.)
So how cool
would it be if you could tap into these unconscious language generation
processes to find solutions to your problems & get assistance towards
achieving your goals?
1) Choose some goal you want to achieve, problem you
need to solve, change
you'd like to make or situation
you'd like some insight into.
Let's
choose some (fairly) typical examples:
-
I want to get out
of debt
-
I want to become
slim & fit
-
I want to
experience more joy & happiness
-
I want to figure
out what to do about my relationship
-
I want to find
work I love
2)
Create a 'sentence
stem' taking the following general structure: “If I brought / lived with 5%
more [awareness/consciousness] around/to [situation], I would...”
Let's look
at how you could do this for the examples:
|
Situation |
Sentence Stem |
|
I
want to get out of debt |
“If
I lived with 5% more awareness around my finances, I would...”
|
|
I
want to become slim & fit |
“If
I lived with 5% more consciousness around my health, I would...”
|
|
I
want to experience more joy & happiness |
“If
I lived with 5% more awareness of my capacity for experiencing
happiness & joy, I would...”
|
|
I
want to figure out what to do about my relationship |
“If
I brought 5% more consciousness to my relationship, I would...”
|
|
I
want to find work I love |
“If
I brought 5% more awareness to my work, I would...”
|
3)
Once you've written your sentence stem, read it out 5
times, completing it
(in writing), with 5 different
endings. Do it fast!
For
example... “If I lived with 5% more awareness around my finances, I
would...”
-
Schedule a
few hours to sort out all my different accounts,& put the final touches
on the systems for dealing with paperwork etc.
-
Schedule an
hour a week & a few hours a month to really focus on my financial goals.
-
Pull an
“Instant Wealth” card each day, & take 5 minutes to focus on its message
& generate answers to the Money-making Question it poses.
-
Finish
reading Paul McKenna's book “I Can Make You Rich”
-
Walk through
a Chris Hall-style 'Super-future pacing' process around money & wealth.
4) Do this once a day for a week, & discover how quickly
you notice shifts &
changes in the situation you chose
to work on.
Sometimes,
very small adjustments in our state of consciousness can result in very big
changes in our external experience. Find out how many completions you can
find to this sentence...
“If I
brought 5% more consciousness to applying the things I learn with Jamie &
Salad, I would...”
By the way, in October 2008, we're going to be doing the first module of the
Salad NLP Practitioner training (Master Prac starts in April 2009). This is
the last time we will be running the programme in its current form, so if
you want to benefit from lots of personal attention from your trainers, as
well as get a powerful group training in a modular approach to help you
develop your skills & live the life of your dreams, go to
NLP Practitioner Training 2008
Have a great week!
To your success!
Your friend
Jamie
Jamie
Smart
Jamie Smart
director of training
jamie.smart@saladltd.co.uk
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