BE CAREFUL HOW YOU THINK

Do you ever think about a situation before it happens? Of course you do, that's natural, but have you ever given thought to the way you think about it?

I think this is well illustrated by a story that Michael Neill tells in his book "Effortless Success". A man goes over to his neighbour's house to borrow her lawnmower. On the way he thinks about arguments they've had in the past about things that he's borrowed and returned late. He thinks about the time she borrowed his pruning shears and broke them and how she lost his best ladder, yet he didn't even say anything. By the time he gets to her front door he is steaming. She opens the door and smiles warmly at him - "hello there, great to see you, what can I do for you?" to which he simply barks, "and you can keep your damn lawnmower!"

So much of the time when we dread things or when things go badly it's because we have anticipated that this will be so by our negative thinking. NLP is about controlling your brain and that begins with accepting your brain as something separate from you, something that you can control. This small step can be a fundamental leap as it empowers you to do something about your situation, not just passively sit back and accept the hand you've been dealt.

Think about your day ahead, how do you feel about it? Ask yourself how much of this is due to fact and how much is down to the negative thoughts you have about it. It's all too easy to allow ourselves to be wound up before we meet with certain people, all because things maybe didn't go well when we met them last time and we are projecting the negative thoughts about that forward into today's meeting.

So take a bit of time today to notice what you are thinking......... More soon.
Michelle

MIND - BODY CONNECTION

Our mind and our body are intimately connected. At one level we all know that but it's easy to forget it when it suits us to do so. In today's new video I give a simple demonstration of the mind-body connection and you can view it here. Play along with me and you'll see what I mean.

NLP is not just about recognising things such as the mind-body connection, it's about using it to your advantage. If you want your body to do anything, you need to get your mind in the right state first. Once you "get your head right" then things flow much more easily.

If you're struggling to follow an exercise programme because you're seeing yourself as fat and unfit, it'll be hard to make changes physically before you make them mentally. Concentrate on how you want to be. Give your unconscious mind something positive to work on, then it will work for you, not against you, to help you create what you are aiming for. If you see or feel yourself as on the way to becoming slim and healthy it'll be much easier to keep going in the right direction than if you see yourself in a more negative way.

It's said that we only use somewhere around 10% of the total power of our brains. Can you just imagine what we could achieve if we could harness our full potential and channel it? How wonderful would that be?
Michelle