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Eye patterns can give us clues about which internal representation system a person is accessing in the moment.  Practically, that allows a communicator to communicate in the clearest way possible.   Taking some time to study this eye chart and see what you can learn about whether someone tends to prefers to see, hear or feel information.  While these eye patterns can vary slightly from person to person, they can help you gain information on how to best help that person understand the information you have to present, by noticing what kind of process they might be running inside their mind: visual, auditory, kinesthetic or self talk or criteria.

These are some of the typical eye patterns you might notice in a right-handed person by watching them communicate:

• If someone’s eyes move up and to their right (your left as you watch them), they are trying to make a picture in their mind
• If someone’s eyes move to their right (your left), they are trying to construct a sound
• If someone’s eyes move down and to their right (your left), they are accessing feelings
• If someone’s eyes move up and to their left (your right), they are trying to remember a picture
• If someone’s eyes move to their left (your right), they are trying to remember a sound
• If someone’s eyes move down and to their left (your right, they are probably talking to themselves internally or reviewing criteria.

For more ideas on how to better communicate, contact William Wood CHt at 801-203-3405 or email at william.wood@northernutahhypnosis.com.  Visit me at www.northernutahhypnosis.com

This article and drawing were made as part of a continuing education course at www.modernjedi.com

The New Orleans Flexibility Drill

This drill is an old-school NLP technique that is not currently used much due to newer and improved techniques.

1. Identify an external stimulus that triggers an unresourceful state
2. Stack a positive resource anchor
3. Imagine or role play the negative stimulus and fire the positive resource anchor
4. Repeat the process until there is no longer any need to fire the anchor while role playing
5. Now the old stimulus triggers the new resourceful response.

For more information on how to replace old triggers with new behaviors, contact William Wood CHt at 801-203-3405 or william.wood@northernutahhypnosis.com.  Visit me at www.northernutahhypnosis.com

I wrote this article for a continuing education course at www.modernjedi.com

Change Personal History Technique

This is another old-school NLP technique that has been replaced or updated with Time Line Therapy ® Techniques.

1. Design and install a positive resource anchor.
2. Identify a persistent recurring undesirable state and anchor the state
3. Fire the negative anchor with at least three events from the clients past where the client experienced that state.
4. MAKE SURE THAT THE STATE ASSOCIATED WITH THE POSTIVE RESOUCE ANCHOR IS GREATER THAN THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVE STATE
5. Fire the new positive resource anchor on each of the previous experiences from the client’s past and imagine reliving the event with new resources.
6. Test and future pace.

For more information on how to change your future for the better, contact William Wood CHt at 801-203-3405 or william.wood@nothernutahhypnosis.com.  Visit me at www.northernutahhypnosis.com

I wrote this article for a continuing education piece for www.modernjedi.com

Creating a ring of power is a process of establishing and stacking a spatial anchor for motivation or some other positive state.

1. Anchor a number of positive powerful states to an imagined circle on the floor.
2. Chain motivation, power, success, etc, with the unique stimulus of standing in your imaginary ring of power on the floor.
3. When done with the anchoring process, step into your imaginary ring on the floor and test the effect.

Learn more about taking control of your state of mind by contacting William Wood CHt at 801-203-3405 or william.wood@nothernutahhypnosis.com.  Visit me at www.northernutahhypnosis.com

I wrote this article for a continuing education class at www.modernjedi.com

1. Identify the negative state (Eg. Procrastination)
2. Decide on the desired state (Eg. Motivation)
3. Design the chain: Decide on what intermediate states are needed to bridge the gap between the negative and desired state. Present stateàIntermediate State #1àIntermediate State #2àDesired State
4. Anchor each state separately with a unique stimulus, introducing a break state between each anchor.
5. Chain the anchors by firing each anchor as the previous one reaches its peak.
6. Test the chain by firing the first anchor and observe what happens.

If you want help to stop procrastinating, contact William Wood CHt for more information at 801-203-3405 or william.wood@northernutahhypnosis.com.  Visit me at www.northernutahhypnosis.com

I wrote this article as part of a continuing education course at www.modernjedi.com

1. Decide on the negative “triggered” state to be replaced.
2. Anchor several positive states with the same unique stimulus.
3. Anchor the negative state once with a second unique stimulus.
4. Fire both anchors at the same time until integration is complete.
5. Stop firing the negative anchor.
6. Continue to fire the positive anchor for five seconds and then release.
7. Test how you feel about the old state.
8. Imagine a future time when you might be in a similar situation and check in with your feelings and see what happens.

For help getting rid of an unwanted conditioned response, contact William Wood CHt at 801-203-3405 or william.wood@nothernutahhypnosis.com.  Visit me at www.northernutahhypnosis.com

I wrote this article for a continuing education class at www.modernjedi.com

Five keys to anchoring/conditioned response

I-TURN

1. Intensity of the experience
2. Timing of the Anchor
3. Uniqueness of the anchor
4. Replication of the stimulus
5. Number of times the stimulus is repeated

For help establishing an anchor or conditioned response, contact William Wood CHt at 801-203-3405 or william.wood@nothernutahhypnosis.com.  Visit me at www.northernutahhypnosis.com

I wrote this article for a continuing education class I am taking at www.modernjedi.com

RACE: how to create an anchor

1. Recall a past experience vividly
2. Anchor the stimulus at the peak of the experience
3. Change the state
4. tEst the anchor

For help creating or undoing an anchor, contact William Wood CHt at 801-203-3405 or william.wood@nothernutahhypnosis.com.  Visit me at www.northernutahhypnosis.com

I wrote this article for a continuing education class at www.modernjedi.com

An anchor is another way to describe a conditioned response.  Years ago Pavlov hit a tuning fork simultaneously as he put meat in front of his dogs.  When the dogs would see the meat, they would begin to salivate.  Soon, he was able to remove the meat and just sound the tuning fork and the dog’s mouths continued to salivate, just at the sound of the tuning fork.  In other words the dogs developed a conditioned response—or an anchor— to the sound of the tuning fork.

Have you ever noticed that certain smells, music, places or foods “trigger” an automatic response.  If you have, then you have developed an anchored response.  For example, imagine a person who was viciously attacked by a dog as a child.  Now every time that person sees a dog, he might instantly feel a feeling of fear.

Through hypnosis, we can neutralize bad anchors or “triggers.”  For more information how, contact William Wood CHt at 801-203-3405 or william.wood@nothernutahhypnosis.com.  Visit me at www.northernutahhypnosis.com

I wrote this article as part of a coninuing education class at www.modernjedi.com

About ten years ago, I came home in a really bad mood.  I was in my masters program and I was letting school stress me out.  I also owned and operated a business and nothing seemed to be going quite right at the moment.  I walked in the door and slumped down at the kitchen table as my wife greeted me lovingly with a kiss.  Immediately, she could sense that I was in a really sour mood.  Rather than ask me how my day was, she asked me, “Would you like a piece of toast?  I just made some bread.”

Toast?  I like toast, but I LOVE warm, homemade bread. “Yes, I would like some toast,” I said somewhat forlornly.  I slumped my shoulders forward and put my head on the table.  I felt the cool, smooth wood against my cheek, as I sighed.  I was doing my best to feel sorry for myself.  I heard the toaster click and lock into place.  I glanced over in the direction of the toaster.  I could see a red glow just at its top, as the toaster fired up.  A moment later, I smelled that glorious smell: fresh, homemade bread, warmed in a toaster oven.

The smell wafted across the room and washed over me.  Instantly, it transported me back to a time when I was eight or nine, standing in the kitchen with my mother.  The oven was on, and we were forming loaves with our hands.

My head was still on the table, but my breathing had already started to change and my shoulders weren’t so slumped anymore.  That smell…so good—pop, the toast was done!  A smile broke over my face.  I knew what was coming next: warmed bread, unsalted butter and honey.  Before my wife put the toast in front of me, I could feel it on my tongue, savoring and salivating.

She put the plate in front of me.  She stood behind me and put her hands on my shoulders while I took a deep breath, filling my lungs with glory.  I sat upright.  Suddenly, everything was going to be okay.

At the time, I was amazed that toast could almost instantly change my mood.  I learned an important lesson.  If we know what triggers us, positively and negatively, we can take instant control of our moods and attitudes.

I have two daughters that are Miley Cyrus fans.  I can’t say that I always share their enthusiasm, but I think that Miley’s song “Party in the USA” illustrates a similar experience.  She sings about flying to LA, an unfamiliar place, where she is surrounded by people who dress and act differently.  None of her friends are around. She sings:

“My tummys turnin’ and I’m feelin’ kinda home sick
Too much pressure and I’m nervous
That’s when the D.J. dropped my favorite tune
and a Britney song was on (…)

So I put my hands up
They’re playing my song,
And the butterflies fly away (…)
They’re playin’ my song
I know I’m gonna be ok”
(Miley Cyrus, Party in the USA, omissions noted with ellipses)

Notice the commonalities between my experience with toast and Miley’s experience with her favorite Britney song:  an external stimulus triggers a feeling or memory, which is followed by a shift in posture and a more resourceful mental state.  Miley’s response to music is not unique.  How many people hear a song and are instantly transported back to another place and time.  A couple says, “That is our song,” as they hear and remember dancing on the night that they fell in love.

Functional imaging studies tell us that this experience of hearing and remembering is probably linked to an area in the brain known as the rostromedial prefrontal cortex, which is part of the medial prefrontal cortex in the diagram below.  The rostromedial prefrontal cortex—along with the primary auditory cortex—is one of the areas that perceives tone and then communicates with the amygdala (limbic system), mediating negative emotions.  Theoretically, the rostromedial prefrontal cortex may be the system that gives music its powerful effect on emotion and memory.  (http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Primary_auditory_cortex).

Functional Map of the Brain

(jpg from http://universe-review.ca/I10-80-prefrontal.jpg).

For more information on powerful tools to control your emotional states and take charge of your life, contact me for an appointment in my office in Ogden, UT, or via Skype.

William Wood, Certified Master Hypnotist

801-203-3405 office

william.wood@northernutahhypnosis.com

I wrote this article for a continuing education course: www.ModernJedi.com