By Allen C. Sargent
Many NLP techniques use alteration or mapping across of sub-modalities in order to elicit change in internal perception. The content of what we see, as well as how and where we see it, makes a difference in how we respond to it emotionally.
This concept goes even deeper into our reaction to sub-modalities. What we see in our "minds eye" can also effect internal and external auditory, along with what we feel kinesthetically both tactily (touch), and proprioceptively (visceral) for the imprinted event. In other NLP techniques we begin with an image and change sub-modalities to create a new experience, often just guessing at what sub-modality change will be the difference that makes a difference. By using the Hemispheric Integration model we are accessing the different sub-modalities that already make a difference for the individual explorer automatically.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
9 Steps to Establish Rapport & Ecology for Working Together
By Allen C. Sargent
The following is a process called The Hemispheric Eye Model Foreground-Background, first introduced at the NLP World Health Conference at the University of Santa Cruz in June 1997. By doing this exercise you will be useful and powerful in your life.
As a coach and a guide, you will be able to use these steps to help establish rapport and ecology.
Step 1:
Explain and demonstrate the current external dominant eye. This step shows that there is a difference, and will assist in determining the internal dominant eye.
Step 2:
Have Explorer think of a challenging person with whom they would like to have a more resourceful initial internal response or reaction. Example: Supervisor, coworker, relative or neighbor. To begin with I suggest you pick a moderate example - a five on a scale of one to ten.
Step 3:
Elicit the Explorer's sub-modalities paying particular attention to:
Visual - associated or dissociated, clarity, color, movie or still picture, panoramic or framed, size and location.
Auditory - internal and external, volume, location and content.
Kinesthetic - tactile, proprioseptive, and emotional evaluation.
Guide calibrates external cues, checking carefully for ecology.
Step 4:
Say to Explorer: "Get a sense of which internal eye you're seeing that picture with. " Note response. After response guide says, "After checking inside and in a way that is just right for you, shift your internal dominant eye to the opposite eye so that you will be seeing that person now with a new perspective."
Guide note any change in external cues.
Step 5:
Elicit any differences in sub-modalities, paying close attention to any shift in emotional response.
Step 6:
Identify which picture the explorer wants to leave foreground, and which to leave background. Leaving one of the pictures background balances ecological issues.
Step 7:
Assist Explorer in establishing foreground-background by asking them "What would make that picture stand out?" Often changing color and intensity or size will make the difference.
Test for response and adjust as appropriate.
Step 8:
Check to see what follow up work is needed.
Doing this process may allow other issues to surface such as belief changes or re-imprinting.
These may be dealt with at a later time.
Step 9:
Future pace the new choice the Explorer now has to adjust their Hemispheric Integration.
You can find out more at www.nlpla.com
The following is a process called The Hemispheric Eye Model Foreground-Background, first introduced at the NLP World Health Conference at the University of Santa Cruz in June 1997. By doing this exercise you will be useful and powerful in your life.
As a coach and a guide, you will be able to use these steps to help establish rapport and ecology.
Step 1:
Explain and demonstrate the current external dominant eye. This step shows that there is a difference, and will assist in determining the internal dominant eye.
Step 2:
Have Explorer think of a challenging person with whom they would like to have a more resourceful initial internal response or reaction. Example: Supervisor, coworker, relative or neighbor. To begin with I suggest you pick a moderate example - a five on a scale of one to ten.
Step 3:
Elicit the Explorer's sub-modalities paying particular attention to:
Visual - associated or dissociated, clarity, color, movie or still picture, panoramic or framed, size and location.
Auditory - internal and external, volume, location and content.
Kinesthetic - tactile, proprioseptive, and emotional evaluation.
Guide calibrates external cues, checking carefully for ecology.
Step 4:
Say to Explorer: "Get a sense of which internal eye you're seeing that picture with. " Note response. After response guide says, "After checking inside and in a way that is just right for you, shift your internal dominant eye to the opposite eye so that you will be seeing that person now with a new perspective."
Guide note any change in external cues.
Step 5:
Elicit any differences in sub-modalities, paying close attention to any shift in emotional response.
Step 6:
Identify which picture the explorer wants to leave foreground, and which to leave background. Leaving one of the pictures background balances ecological issues.
Step 7:
Assist Explorer in establishing foreground-background by asking them "What would make that picture stand out?" Often changing color and intensity or size will make the difference.
Test for response and adjust as appropriate.
Step 8:
Check to see what follow up work is needed.
Doing this process may allow other issues to surface such as belief changes or re-imprinting.
These may be dealt with at a later time.
Step 9:
Future pace the new choice the Explorer now has to adjust their Hemispheric Integration.
You can find out more at www.nlpla.com
Monday, December 20, 2010
Freedom from Food Compulsion
Before you chastise yourself for "lack of will power", consider this. Did you know that these seemingly irresistible cravings may not have anything to do with the food itself? As many people who struggle to lose weight and/or eat healthfully only to succumb to self sabotaging behavior know, the problem is often not the diet itself, so much as the underlying emotional issues that sabotage our motivation and choices. You've probably heard the phrase, "It's not what you're eating, it's what's eating you."
Often, the food is a representation of some other issue that has mistakenly been hooked together by the brain as a substitute for what we truly need in order to take care of ourselves. This association essentially buries the real cause and covers it by creating a food compulsion. People might go through their entire lives experiencing both the unpleasant effects of the compulsion as well as the limitation of the underlying issue, never able to feel free to live the life they desire.
Luckily, there is a process that will help. Developed by Al & Marilyn Sargent, the Anchors Away Process gives you a whole brain perspective, leaving you with complete choice about having the food item, or not, so there is no feeling of deprivation or loss. This gentle and amazingly quick process can free you to experience your life without the limitations that reacting inappropriately to the environment can inflict.
Stop letting food run your life! RePower Your Self!
Al & Marilyn Sargent
Success Design International
310-457-7062
mail@nlpla.com
Often, the food is a representation of some other issue that has mistakenly been hooked together by the brain as a substitute for what we truly need in order to take care of ourselves. This association essentially buries the real cause and covers it by creating a food compulsion. People might go through their entire lives experiencing both the unpleasant effects of the compulsion as well as the limitation of the underlying issue, never able to feel free to live the life they desire.
Luckily, there is a process that will help. Developed by Al & Marilyn Sargent, the Anchors Away Process gives you a whole brain perspective, leaving you with complete choice about having the food item, or not, so there is no feeling of deprivation or loss. This gentle and amazingly quick process can free you to experience your life without the limitations that reacting inappropriately to the environment can inflict.
Stop letting food run your life! RePower Your Self!
Al & Marilyn Sargent
Success Design International
310-457-7062
mail@nlpla.com
Monday, November 29, 2010
Conditions for Updating Beliefs
Changing limiting beliefs is intended to permanently re-educate the part of our brain that has internalized a 'rule' which no longer serves us in our current reality.
Inner thoughts, voices, and feelings that limit possibilities and seem to make no logical sense, are interjects and rules from other times, people and places. We may have been 'brainwashed' into agreeing with external messages in order to survive in a dysfunctional system. At one time the limiting behavior may have been perceived as our only choice. In current reality, these imaginary thoughts become the hidden saboteurs that stop us from achieving our goals and experiencing inner peace of mind and happiness.
If we have an inner voice or thought that is blaming, accusing or punishing us, we are creating it internally, not on purpose, of course! Since we can internally create messages of negativity, then we can also create internal messages of possibility.
It is all about how we Choose to Create Choice to Live Our Lives.
Marilyn & Al
Inner thoughts, voices, and feelings that limit possibilities and seem to make no logical sense, are interjects and rules from other times, people and places. We may have been 'brainwashed' into agreeing with external messages in order to survive in a dysfunctional system. At one time the limiting behavior may have been perceived as our only choice. In current reality, these imaginary thoughts become the hidden saboteurs that stop us from achieving our goals and experiencing inner peace of mind and happiness.
If we have an inner voice or thought that is blaming, accusing or punishing us, we are creating it internally, not on purpose, of course! Since we can internally create messages of negativity, then we can also create internal messages of possibility.
It is all about how we Choose to Create Choice to Live Our Lives.
Marilyn & Al
Monday, November 22, 2010
We are excited to launch our new book
MOVING THROUGH GRIEF WITH GRACE & DIGNITY
by Allen C. Sargent
We all experience grief on any number of levels. Whether it is the loss of a loved one, the tragedy of a national disaster, changing jobs or households, or simply the transition from one stage of life to another, each passing effects us and our ability to respond to the world resourcefully. Grief is a natural part of our life cycle. How, then, do we respond in a way that honors this process while still allowing us to function in a healthy, productive manner in our daily lives?
Moving Through Grief With Grace And Dignity will show you how to respond to tragic events and loss the way the human brain was designed to respond.
You Will Learn:
* How to sort out what aspects of moving through grief are naturally effective...
* Which commonly accepted phases of grief can be eliminated...
* Why the traditional "Stages of Grief" can actually keep you stuck...and what to do about it...
* And more.
RePower Your Life
Al & Marilyn Sargent
www.nlpla.com
MOVING THROUGH GRIEF WITH GRACE & DIGNITY
by Allen C. Sargent
We all experience grief on any number of levels. Whether it is the loss of a loved one, the tragedy of a national disaster, changing jobs or households, or simply the transition from one stage of life to another, each passing effects us and our ability to respond to the world resourcefully. Grief is a natural part of our life cycle. How, then, do we respond in a way that honors this process while still allowing us to function in a healthy, productive manner in our daily lives?
Moving Through Grief With Grace And Dignity will show you how to respond to tragic events and loss the way the human brain was designed to respond.
You Will Learn:
* How to sort out what aspects of moving through grief are naturally effective...
* Which commonly accepted phases of grief can be eliminated...
* Why the traditional "Stages of Grief" can actually keep you stuck...and what to do about it...
* And more.
RePower Your Life
Al & Marilyn Sargent
www.nlpla.com
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Words Don't Change People - Experience Does!
For instance, if I say, "I want you to salivate." What do you experience? "Now, think of a nice, juicy fresh lemon, mmmm - sqeeze some of the juice into your mouth and taste it." What happened this time? Which one elicited the most experience of a real lemon? The digital information or words give the instruction or information to the left hemisphere. Imagine if we were talking in person and you could see my facial expression, gestures and hear my tonality. This is the analog marking or non-verbal part of the message. The speaker's personal state of being will strongly influence the listener in the experience through eliciting a response from their right hemisphere.
A study done by the British Journal of Social Psychology in 1978 describes the ratio of influence in communication between the verbal and non-verbal aspects of delivery. Their research shows that when we are in communication, 55% of the meaning comes from the non-verbal aspects of the environment and delivery, 38% is received through the actual tone, tempo and analog marking of the words, and 7% of the understanding comes from the actual words used.
All language is influential. Whatever is said, we have no choice but to create internal images in an attempt to understand the meaning. We form an internal response automatically. For instance, think of a pink elephant riding a blue bicycle. Notice your internal VAKs. Now, don't think of a pink elephant riding a blue bicycle. Notice that it is the same experience initially in the VAKs - we have to think of it first in order to then attempt to not think of it. When we understand that the unconscious mind can only process words that create the internal experience, we can learn to be much more precise in our delivery. We encourage you to be careful to create word pictures of what you do want, rather than attempting to get results by asking for what you don't want. This would be like going to the store with a shopping list of items that you don't want - this could lead to some very frustrating shopping trips!
A study done by the British Journal of Social Psychology in 1978 describes the ratio of influence in communication between the verbal and non-verbal aspects of delivery. Their research shows that when we are in communication, 55% of the meaning comes from the non-verbal aspects of the environment and delivery, 38% is received through the actual tone, tempo and analog marking of the words, and 7% of the understanding comes from the actual words used.
All language is influential. Whatever is said, we have no choice but to create internal images in an attempt to understand the meaning. We form an internal response automatically. For instance, think of a pink elephant riding a blue bicycle. Notice your internal VAKs. Now, don't think of a pink elephant riding a blue bicycle. Notice that it is the same experience initially in the VAKs - we have to think of it first in order to then attempt to not think of it. When we understand that the unconscious mind can only process words that create the internal experience, we can learn to be much more precise in our delivery. We encourage you to be careful to create word pictures of what you do want, rather than attempting to get results by asking for what you don't want. This would be like going to the store with a shopping list of items that you don't want - this could lead to some very frustrating shopping trips!
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Getting Beyond the Phobia Using Your Other Mind's Eye
Heal the Hidden Danger
Phobias, PTSD, and panic attacks are devastating and inappropriate reactions to a stimulus. Learn to correct this confusion in the limbic system using Sargent's Phobia Release Process with Anchors Away. Now it's possible to discover the actual danger, updating limiting beliefs, and create a Compelling Self-Image for congruency.
RePower Your Life!!
In the workshop that Al & I taught at the IASH Conference in October, we taught others how to be thorough in healing the underlying trauma that is causing phobic reactions, PTSD, and panic attacks. Behind every phobia there are precipitating events from which limiting beliefs are formed about who we are (Identity), what is the world (Environment), or who we are in the world (Internal - External Reference).
As in any technology, new discoveries, information and expertise fine-tune and replace old rituals. Al Sargent's development of the Anchors Away Process provides a technique to update the information held in the Amygdala in the limbic system of the brain. The Anchors Away and Hemispheric Integration technology are integral parts of the Sargent's Phobia Release Process.
A phobic response is being directed from only one hemisphere of the brain. Traditionally, NLP phobia processes have served as a pattern interrupt of the coading of this visual image. We learned from Sargent's 1996 discovery of The Other Mind's Eye that the other hemisphere of the brain holds valuable information as well - you might be literally using only half a mind to think!
Sadly, whatever caused the fear reaction originally still has not been resolved or honored. Limiting beliefs will continue to manifest in other somatic or emotional reactions until the underlying confusion or challenge is appropriately resourced.
As a leader, coach or practitioner, Anchors Away is a must to add to your tool box of skills. The Sargent's Phobia Release Process, also includes Marilyn Sargent's method for unhooking limiting beliefs, plus Creating a Compelling Self Image with a specific behavior.
We had such a great time teaching these skills and tools and we will be adding examples of the phobic reactions and the actual danger that we have seen in our processes.
Create Your Life Through Choice
Al & Marilyn Sargent
Phobias, PTSD, and panic attacks are devastating and inappropriate reactions to a stimulus. Learn to correct this confusion in the limbic system using Sargent's Phobia Release Process with Anchors Away. Now it's possible to discover the actual danger, updating limiting beliefs, and create a Compelling Self-Image for congruency.
RePower Your Life!!
In the workshop that Al & I taught at the IASH Conference in October, we taught others how to be thorough in healing the underlying trauma that is causing phobic reactions, PTSD, and panic attacks. Behind every phobia there are precipitating events from which limiting beliefs are formed about who we are (Identity), what is the world (Environment), or who we are in the world (Internal - External Reference).
As in any technology, new discoveries, information and expertise fine-tune and replace old rituals. Al Sargent's development of the Anchors Away Process provides a technique to update the information held in the Amygdala in the limbic system of the brain. The Anchors Away and Hemispheric Integration technology are integral parts of the Sargent's Phobia Release Process.
A phobic response is being directed from only one hemisphere of the brain. Traditionally, NLP phobia processes have served as a pattern interrupt of the coading of this visual image. We learned from Sargent's 1996 discovery of The Other Mind's Eye that the other hemisphere of the brain holds valuable information as well - you might be literally using only half a mind to think!
Sadly, whatever caused the fear reaction originally still has not been resolved or honored. Limiting beliefs will continue to manifest in other somatic or emotional reactions until the underlying confusion or challenge is appropriately resourced.
As a leader, coach or practitioner, Anchors Away is a must to add to your tool box of skills. The Sargent's Phobia Release Process, also includes Marilyn Sargent's method for unhooking limiting beliefs, plus Creating a Compelling Self Image with a specific behavior.
We had such a great time teaching these skills and tools and we will be adding examples of the phobic reactions and the actual danger that we have seen in our processes.
Create Your Life Through Choice
Al & Marilyn Sargent
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