Master NLP Practitioner – Magic Water Technique

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Well, I am now officially certified as a Master NLP Practitioner! As part of the final exam, I had to “invent a new technique.” Here is what I came up with:

The Magic Water Technique
-by M. Dawn

First, the subject gets a clean glass and fills it with purified/filtered water. The subject then sits at a table with the glass of water in front of her, and closes her eyes.

The subject then is to imagine that, somewhere in front of her in space is the essence (or representation) of what she wants. This could be success or change in any area, including more courage, a good relationship, more money, a good night’s sleep, more energy, more patience, and weight loss.

The subject is to recognize or give this abstract concept more concrete qualities, such as color, shape, sound, smell, taste, and kinesthetic.

Once the concept/idea has recognizable, sensory qualities, the subject is to shrink it down to the size of a sugar cube or a marble and imagine that it drops into the glass of water. Once the solid form hits the water, the subject imagines that it disperses or effervesces throughout the fluid, filling the glass with this positive concept.

Finally, the subject opens her eyes and drinks the entire glass of water. As she drinks it, she feels the power of this positive idea go into her blood and into her cells, becoming a part of her biochemistry. She becomes filled with a new ability to achieve whatever it was she wanted, easily.

Later on, she will release the regular water from her body, but all the “nutrients” from the solid cube or pill remains in her body for several days. After doing the Magic Water Technique on the same subject several times (for example, once per day for two weeks) the idea, concept, or quality becomes a natural part of who the subject is, and the technique will rarely be needed anymore to maintain that particular change.

Hoping that you might find this technique useful, or at least interesting!

NLP Technique – Changing Submodalities

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I just completed my NLP Basic Practitioner certification program (hooray!), and would like to pass on one of the most simple and effective NLP techniques I’ve learned. This technique is good to use if there is a particular food you want to eat less of (chips, candy, cheese), an addiction you want to discontinue, or a person you want to stop having feelings for. For the purposes of giving an example, I will use the idea of wanting to eat less of a particular food.

If you know how to do self-hypnosis, it might be helpful to first bring yourself into a state or trance. Any really relaxed state will do. You should be laying down, or in another comfortable position. Once you are comfortable, simply close your eyes and take a nice, deep breath, in through your nose and out through your mouth.

Now imagine that there is a grid, either around you or in front of you. It can be any kind of grid you like. Somewhere on this grid, bring up an image of the food you want to eat less of, which in the past you’ve enjoyed a little to much. Notice the image, and where on the grid it has been placed. Also notice whether the image is still or moving, whether there are any shapes or colors that represent the image, any sounds that might be associated with the image, any smells that might be involved, and any emotions that might come up. All these little details are submodalities, and they represent your overall feelings about the subject in question.

Once you have gathered all of the sensory details surrounding the image of the food you want to eat less of, think of a food (or basically anything) that you would never eat, or that you absolutely detest. Bring an image up of this thing you would be disgusted to ingest, and place it somewhere on the grid. Just as you did with the other image, notice if this new subject has any movement, particular shapes, colors, sounds, smells, or emotions attached to it. Really notice those details. I know, not the most pleasant experience, but it’s for a good cause!

Once you have placed both images on the grid and have acknowledged the qualities you attribute to them, then slide (or otherwise move) the image of the food you want to eat less of over to the same box on the grid of the subject matter that really grosses you out. As you slide the image of the food you were eating too much of over to the image of the stuff you have no desire to eat, notice its qualities and submodalities morphing. The once “yummy” food should actually begin to feel like something really undesirable!

After you’ve moved the object from its happy place to its not so happy place, with all of its aspects altered, LOCK IT IN. Lock it however you want, as long as it’s stuck there.Then open your eyes. Think about the food you used to really like, and notice if your feelings about it have changed. You can repeat the entire process again, test it again, and even repeat it a third time. If you do this each day for about a week or so, it is likely to take the effect you were seeking.

Best of luck!

Hypnotherapy and NLP

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I’ve been interested in hypnosis and hypnotherapy for several years now, and have engaged in enough study and practice to understand how to use it well. All this time, I have had a bit of NLP knowledge, which I’ve incorporated into hypnosis. My knowledge of NLP, or neuro-linguistic programming, mostly came from books, such as The Big Book of NLP by Vaknin, which I occasionally thumb through here and there (it really is a big book).

I am not sure why it has taken me so long to decide to get certified in NLP. I think part of the reason is that I wanted to make sure I was confident enough in my hypnotherapy skills, first. After recently reviewing my hypnotherapy training program from beginning to end, I finally felt prepared to take the next step of integrating even more information into my methods of therapy. Actually, “prepared” is an understatement. In truth, I felt a really intense thirst to learn more, which developed rather suddenly. It’s strange how that can happen to people; we can go for years and years being “sort of” interested in something, and then one day we wake up with a serious passion for it. “Fascinating,” as my NLP teacher would say.

I am about a quarter of the way done with my NLP Basic Practitioner certification training. After I take the test and receive my certificate, I plan to go for the NLP Master Practitioner certification training. Not just for the title, but because the human mind is just amazing to explore, and I fully believe in the validity and usefulness of NLP to enhance our lives. I am very excited about learning, these days; it almost feels like I am a child with a special key to a secret place that I’ve just entered, and I get to keep unlocking more and more doors.

And although I am confident in my skills as a hypnotist, there is always more to learn, and I can always get better. One of the things I love about the study of psychology is that there are always more discoveries to be made. Each human mind has its own unique set up, with all its various complexities. It seems that we are always unearthing new ways in which we can work with the mind in order to heal, learn, create, and succeed.

I am glad to share this exciting point in my life with visitors to my site. I hope that I am able to assist you and inspire you, as I believe each individual does for me, in some way or another.