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by
Bill Thomason
How is it possible for people to change?
This question has driven a large part of my work
and thought over the years. It is certainly a central theme of human
potential inquiry. Perhaps you know someone who suddenly started to live a
very different kind of life than they had before; someone who had
experienced a "profound life change."
As NLP pioneer and developer Wyatt Woodsmall points
out, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) developed from a technology called
Behavioral Modeling. Children learn from 'modeling" the behaviors of
others, especially parents and other primary caregivers. The co-founders
of NLP, Richard Bandler and John Grinder, sought out the most successful
people from various fields to model their behavior. They wanted to
discover the structure of "expertise;" how people do what they
do well.
Richard Bandler was a computer information student.
John Grinder was a professor of Linguistics. Since they were both
interested in Gestalt Therapy, the first experts they modeled were
therapists. Richard and John started to systematically elicit and then
"model" or "copy" the behavior of these experts.
Although there are some exceptions, it was said that if anyone can create
any achievement in life, and if you can get enough "quality
information" about how they do it, you can reproduce the same
results.
So, what are the common elements among people who
have experienced "profound personal change?" It seems that
profound personal change is typically preceded by some traumatic event.
Sometimes it is a near death experience, like an auto accident, or a
doctor telling you, "Get your affairs in order; you have 3-6 months
to live." It may be that someone you know went to church on a Sunday
and, while in a deep emotional state, decided to re-dedicate his or her
life. From that moment on, that person lived differently.
Everyone knows someone who has had a "profound
life change" experience? But how can we "model" or
reproduce profound change in our own lives? And, can it be done without
the trauma? It is thought that by age 4 or 5, most people have almost all
their deep-level, core programming in place. This deep programming
operates at an other-than-conscious level and it drives a person's
behavior for the rest of his or her life.
When we ask experts how they do what they do, they
most often say, "I don't know how I do it, I just do it."
However, when information is elicited effectively by a practitioner of
NLP, we find that the person does know at some level. People who have had
a profound life change experience report they were in a state of
"deep emotion" at the time of the change. Deep emotion is one of
the key ingredients of how new core decisions get in place. Core level
decisions are expressed with specific language, in specific ways,
including body language and gestures. People are expressing their core
programming all the time in everything that they do and say.
The basic premise of The Core Decisional
Repatterning© process is
that our programming is created by the decisions we make. The deepest
levels of our programming are formed at a very early age. Some of this
programming is formed before we are even old enough to speak. Some
programming is resourceful and life empowering while some is limiting in
nature. Perhaps you have noticed that most people would like to change
something about themselves. Some changes people tend to make easily and
some changes are very difficult depending on how deeply the original
decision is embedded in a person's decisional network.
A Time When…You felt Totally Loved !
Core Decisional Repatterning is a process designed to facilitate
an individual in "heartistic transformation" by first,
releasing old pain, hurt, anxiety, anger, limiting decisions, and other
unwanted programming. Secondly, it involves healing your life and your
world with "total love," and then installing empowering new
success patterns. It is about loving and embracing every part of your
life. Core Decisional Repatterning© is a process that, once you have begun, can now
continue indefinitely.
This process is a synthesis of several models,
including Redecision Therapy (a 9-Step technology for core level change),
NLP techniques, TimeLine Therapy, Hawaiian Huna, Dream-Body Work, and The
Sedona Method.
Contact Bill Thomason at knowtime@nlpskills.com
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Bill Thomason
Your NLP
Success Coach
and Certified
NLP Trainer
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