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Your Body Language is Hypnosis

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It’s Day 27 of 90 Day Transformation Challenge #5.

This week in the “Beyond Beliefs Course” that I’m building in this 90 Day Challenge, I taught the mastermind class the NLP technique of Anchoring. As part of the course I gave them the assignment to watch this video by Harvard researcher, Amy Cuddy. Ms. Cuddy very clearly demonstrates (and backs it up with solid data) the power of our physiological movements to communicate not only to other people non verbally, but to communicate to ourselves as well.

And if you’ve been following my blog for any amount of time you will not be surprised when I say, Hey! That’s HYPNOSIS!.

Hypnosis is not some weird mumbo jumbo magic show baloney. Hypnosis is how we communicate to ourselves and others. More importantly, hypnosis is communicating with your unconscious mind and with other people’s unconscious minds as well.

Take advertising for example, EVERY advertiser is attempting to motivate you to take some kind of action. Rule #1 of advertising is to focus on your audience’s SELF INTEREST.

They don’t say.  “Hey person watching this, buy Tide so we can make our quarterly earning goals.”

YOU don’t care about THEIR earnings goals. YOU care about YOU. That’s self interest. It’s not a bad thing. Every organism on this planet is programmed from the “factory” to but their own needs first. There are no altruistic squirrels, amoebas or humans.

So when the advertiser is selling you Tide, they HAVE to communicate why it is better for YOU to buy their laundry detergent. “It gets your clothes whiter! It makes your colors brighter! Your family will LOVE you for using Tide“.

Get it? You and I are constantly being bombarded with messages designed to sneak past your conscious mind and fit like a key into the lock of your unconscious fears, desires, motivations, longings etc.

And BTW, fear is way easier to trigger than the other motivating emotions.

“OMG! What if my family doesn’t love me because their clothes aren’t clean?”

So paying attention to what THEY (the advertisers and manipulators in power) are attempting to communicate to us makes a ton of sense to me. Not to follow their suggestions. But to evaluate them and block them if you so choose.

One excellent technique for STOPPING the influence of the mass media is to STOP WATCHING IT!

Another excellent technique for stopping the influence of the mass media and other people is to TAKE CHARGE of your own hypnosis. In other words, TAKE CHARGE OF HOW YOU COMMUNICATE TO YOURSELF. Take charge of what you do allow past your conscious vigilance. For me that means I stop listening to music with dysfunctional and victim mind set lyrics… in other words MOST popular music. LOL.

It’s about visual, auditory and kinesthetic hygiene. Essentially Amy Cuddy is teaching us Physical or kinesthetic hygiene.

One key way to do this is to become aware of your body language and what it communicates to yourself and others.

You mind mastery assignment today (should you choose to accept it) is to watch Amy Cuddy’s TED talk video.

Put a few of her empowering body language ideas into practice. Keep track in your journal of how you feel as you experiment. See if you can notice and document a positive difference in your own life. Then, let me know how it’s going for you…

(BTW what Ms. Cuddy DOESN’T seem to know is that she unconsciously uses a body position as she speaks that we in NLP call “Placater” which is forearms out and hands up. It is NOT a power position… It’s subconsciously communicates, “Please accept me and my ideas…”

DO NOT use “placater!”Turn your hands so that palms are DOWN. and all of a sudden you have a more powerful message being “broadcast”… but she gets the rest of it spot on.)

Extra Credit:

I call Amy Cuddy’s “power position” with your arms up over your head in a “V” position, “The Victory Position” (maybe she calls it that too, I’ll have to re-watch it) and that suggests to me that the “Victory Song” might be a sweet support vehicle to lock in this concept… And please know that this song is designed to be helpfully hypnotic. In fact it was one of the first songs I wrote that fully incorporated NLP and Conversational Hypnosis language patterns… so technically it is “Sound Healing Hypnosis” The key difference is that I’m “selling” you on your own power and magnificence.
here it is,

Here’s the audio only version in case that works better for you…

Peace out.

– Mark

p.s. Have questions? Thoughts? Comments? Inappropriate Jokes? Contact me!

Want to check out the “Beyond Beliefs” Course I’m building during this current challenge? The class is full but you can “Audit” the class and get the modules on video as I create them each week for only 3 payments of $19 bucks… It won’t help your clothes look whiter but it might help YOU feel better about yourself and your life than you’ve ever felt before… And if you feel better, that makes ME feel better. So BOTH of our self interests can be honored. PLUS your financial support helps me to keep doing THIS. Which also benefits both of us. :o)

Beyond Beliefs: How To Stop Your Limiting Beliefs From Limiting Your Life

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NLP & Hypnosis: The Keys To Your Cage?

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Hypnosis and NLP:  The Keys To Your Cage?

Bird cage silhouetteIt was an exercise given to my by my business coach Jason…

What is it that you “really” do for your clients? How can you describe it in one sentence in a way that elicits genuine curiosity and interest so that the conversation can continue…

One of the other students in the course said, “I help Olympic athletes get the gold…”

Someone else said, “I teach entrepreneurs how to play to their strengths and delegate the details…”

I’ve done these types of exercises before and they always frustrate me because my NLP and Time Line tools pretty much work for any area of human endeavor…  If you ahve a problem we can solve it. If you are already doing well we can take it to the next level…

I know that if I could choose one juicy niche, as they say I could “grow rich”… but I can NEVER limit myself in that way…

At one point the answer I would have given could have been,

“I help smokers breathe fresh air again”
or
“I help people who are fed up with being fat to create sustainable health and fitness”
or
“I help anxiety sufferers to CRUSH anxiety and panic attacks…”
or
“I help shy guys feel confident and comfortable in any social situation…”

I’ve also helped peak performance athletes, ballerinas, professionals and entrepreneurs go for their “gold” as well…

so I brainstormed along with the rest of the class and what suddenly struck me was this:

I give my students and clients the keys to their own cages.

I teach them how to let themselves out of their self limiting realities and truly do what they came here to this world to do…

Of course a had to write a song about all of that… And we premiered it on Nov. 19th with The Rogue Mystics… It came out fabulously… And today? I dedicate this song to any of you who are feeling stuck or constrained in any area of your life. Your mind mastery assignment today (shoudl you choose to accept it) is to simply listen to this song a few times and start making a list of the areas you’d like to “break out of”.

Hang in there baby! There is HOPE!

When you are willing to change your mind and learn how to actually communicate with these other creatures around you called “people” you begin to understand how to bring value to the world. If you can communicate your value you can positively impact others.

For 40 years I’ve been writing songs and singing them to my living room walls. I am finally “getting” that nobody is going to “get these tunes out”… except me… and YOU.

If I can communicate to you that these songs actually will make your life a little easier and help you to feel good, more and more as you continue to listen to them and allow them to become part of your deep neurology, then I’m doing what I came here to do.

I came here to sing to you. I came here to inform you that you actually have the power to unlock your cage, open the door and come out and fly with the eagles… or the peregrine falcons,  of whatever metaphoric bird you want to imagine yourself to be…

Freedom is delicious. Let’s USE it.

– Mark

p.s. The cage is our limiting beliefs and ideas about that’s not possible. And a lot of what we think can’t be done is because of our thoughts and focus…

If you’re interested in getting our of your “cage”, let me know if you’re interested in joining a select few of motivated people in my next 90 day Challenge Master Mind program starting January 2nd. Just hit reply and I’ll share more about it (there’s no obligation or any weird sales shenanigans). So far I have 5 serious people who are already gearing up so if you’re interested give me a shout before it fills up.

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How To Be Happy All The Time

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37962155_mWhat if there was an easy step by step process that you can do to:

Make yourself happy whenever and wherever you want

(no matter what else is going on in your life)

This short video contains a brief taste of NLP Strategy change work. It’s simple and easy but it’s actually REVOLUTIONARY.

Here’s the video:

Your take away today is to understand that you are creating your emotions with your thoughts.

Make the conscious decision to choose the good emotions. Write out the following why questions by hand enough times so that you can then move through your day repeatedly asking them…

  • Why do I think the kinds of thoughts that lead to the kinds of emotions I want to feel?
  • Why do I focus my mind on the thoughts that create the kinds of emotions I want to feel?
  • Why do I focus on the emotions I want to feel?

One of the things that differentiates Neuro Linguistic Processing from other fields of psychology is that other fields ask, “Why do you have a certain problem”. In NLP we ask, “How do you DO the problem?“, as well as, ” How do you know it’s time to DO the problem?”

Once you understand HOW you do something you can then “install” a different neurological process that gets you a better result.

It’s actually a hell of a lot of fun once you get into it.

Watch your email in-box for updates on my Online NLP training which will be available soon.

In the meantime do you have questions? Comments? Thoughts? Success stories?

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