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This was a fun little video to shoot especially since it involved a good hike and a snowstorm in the middle of summer.
One of the most challenging questions that clients ask me is if I have let go of all of the negative experiences in my past.
My answer is both yes and no. It’s a process of forgiving and releasing whatever comes up when it comes up. Sometimes you don’t know you’re holding onto something until you are confronted with it.
It’s not uncommon for people to dig up wrongdoings from the past as they begin a personal development path, and as I say in the video above there’s not much that you can do with that information. In many ways, it’s your personal story and it’s up to you to determine how long you want to hold onto it. Some stories are great and worth keeping for a lifetime and others are better off left behind.
The beauty of neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and Ericksonian hypnosis is that an environment can be created in which one can release the past.
So, why bring up the past? There are two reasons in my opinion. First, to identify blocks to your evolution and release them. Secondly, to reframe and integrate the beneficial learnings from those experiences so that you can transcend them and empower others to make different decisions based upon your insights.
Forgive, Let Go, Release the Past, and Move Forward…
I view life as a process in which we are helped along by others until we reach a point in our own personal development where we can begin to help others – in our unique way. As we enter into life most of us are taking more help than we are giving. As time passes, the balance should shift so that we find ourselves in a place to empower others. Letting go of the past is the first step in moving ahead.
If you had to let go of just one life experience that has maybe been bothering you or limiting you, what would it be?
If you’re not sure, then consider this question from a different perspective: If you could improve your life in one specific way, how would it be different?
Now, what would that improvement require to change?
It’s probably something that has been going on for a while…
How would you begin to let go of that experience in the past?
If you’re not sure and you recognize the importance in moving ahead with your personal development, then I encourage you to find a qualified coach to empower you to let go of the past. If you see how I can assist you with this then by all means contact me. Who you work with isn’t as important to me as you experiencing life as you want it!
Be amazing
~ MikeE
You probably have better things to do than sit around trying to figure out what adjectives and verbs you can turn into a noun…
Huh?
LOL! Yeah exactly! 
But, what we aren’t paying attention often has a subtle affect upon our lives…
Here are some common examples of nominalizations:
|
Verb / Adjective |
Noun |
| discover | discovery |
| careless | carelessness |
| move | movement |
| difficult | difficulty |
| react | reaction |
| different | difference |
| fail | failure |
| applicable | applicability |
| refuse | refusal |
| intense | intensity |
As you read through this list, I wonder if you noticed the severity or the permanency of the word when it becomes a noun. For me, it’s like the word becomes fixed in time.
So, what’s the big deal about this?
Well, its a very subtle big deal. Think about it in the context of a relationship. How much room do we give people with whom we are in a relationship the flexibility they need to change? Often the thought of our significant other changing isn’t a comfortable one for us… Yet, a relationship is a process of relating to another person and this involves change.
The same could be said for depression – its the nominalization of the process of depressing. Most of the clients I have worked with who find themselves “stuck” in depression can easily point to a place on their body where they feel it the most. Typically their chests, solar plexuses, and stomachs. When I ask how they are depressing it, the clients get a confused look on their face. When I ask them how I can learn to begin depressing myself they don’t know. But, when I ask them to tell me about the last time they felt depressed a client will talk him or herself into that state and their physiology will change. They will slump forward, slouch, their voice will become low, quiet, and monotone. So there I’ve got the process – now I just need to learn what the synesthesia is – that is, how they know how to begin the process of depression.
Many things in life are actually processes. We have strategies that allow us to begin a process for most of our behavior. We’re just not aware of them because the processes happen unconsciously. This is the beauty of Ericksonian Hypnosis and NLP (neuro-linguistic programming). These modalities provide tools for us to change our behavior and end limiting beliefs.
If something in this post catches your attention and your curious to identify what has been happening in your life so that you can change it, then by all means get in touch with me. There are lots of things that can be changing in your life – changing into exactly what you want them to be…
Be Amazing!
~ MikeE
Prior to 2002, I had never considered hypnosis as a serious means of personal development or personal change. In fact, it was not even “on the radar”.
I’d venture a guess that if you’re reading this post or watching this video that something has happened in your life causing you to seek solutions that are outside of society’s pop culture advice.
For me, it was an anxiety related experience that I could not seem to get over. And, probably much like you, a Google search eventually led me to hypnosis as a potential solution. Within a week’s time I had looked up a hypnotherapist and scheduled an appointment.
There was a lot of fear and trepidation going into that appointment mainly because of the negative stigma that hypnosis had been given by many of the devout religious people that I had grown up with… Yet, at that point my life, I was willing to pretty much do anything to find a solution.
In a blur of events, I recall sitting down in the hypnotherapist’s chair as he was talking to me. Approximately 90 minutes later, I walked out of his office a little confused, a little disoriented, and feeling remarkably detached from that old source of anxiety.
Now the first session didn’t cure anything per-se, but the emotional impact and feelings around that old even were greatly reduced. I found that, over time, the first hypnosis session created a lot of curiosity and possibility for me in my life.
I was completely curious to know what else was happening in my life of which I was unaware. And within a year’s time, after doing a lot of study on my own about hypnosis, NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and other communication models I chose to become certified in hypnosis.
Personally, it was the first step in a life-calling. I don’t know if you’ve ever had this experience before, but it’s like finding the right shoe that fits you perfectly. The possibilities and potential that exist within it encompass everything that you desire in life. This is what I found in the role of a personal development coach. Within the hypnosis models that exist Ericksonian Hypnosis is the most subtle and the most effective a model that I’ve found for personal development.
In fact, its power is in its ambiguity and for this very reason as a hypnotherapist I often don’t even need to know the specific details of the client’s problem. It’s more important for me to have a general idea as to what they want to achieve and create an environment within which a client can resolve the challenge at hand. The client will give me feedback through their physiology and language which often comes out in the form of metaphor and imagery to describe their experience as we reframe their old problem.
If you’re curious to know more, I invite you to Join My Mailing List and I’ll send you the Intro to NLP audio program that I give to my AttentionShifting.com subscribers today and you’ll get the Experiencing Trance hypnosis program in a couple of days.
Should you want to know more about Milton Erickson, I recommend you get some of the books about his work. Whether you are a teacher, a salesperson, a nurse, or designer, you’ll find a tremendous insight into human communication through the stories and metaphors he shares. It will affect the way you communicate. 
