Everybody and their dog has an exercise that will magically change the world for you.

A gift of power to you that you have always owned… …and maybe forgotten…I know – everybody and their dog has an exercise that will magically change the world for you. And everybody says their exercise is the best and ultimate – especially if they want you to buy it!

Well, I’m offering this one free of charge. The only cost to you is your time, which if you will invest in yourself, will pay dividends immeasurable. I’ve shared this exercise before and some have even “tried” it. If today is the day you say “I’m making a change in my life NOW,” then now is the time to actually do this exercise – do it every day several times a day for the rest of your life!

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The space around our bodies is simply made for communication and perception.

Scientists Tamar R. Makin, Meytal Wilf, and Ehud Zohary from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem along with Isabella Schwartz from Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital in Jerusalem wanted to investigate how hand amputations affect visuospatial perception in near space. Through a series of ingenious experiments, they discovered, “…that the possibility for action in near space shapes our perception – the space near our hands is really special, and our ability to move in that space affects how we perceive it.”

Another study, this time by researchers from Colgate University and Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) revealed something NLP practitioners have known for some time: that congruent action and verbiage communicates messages far better than when there is incongruent action or speech.

The space around our bodies is simply made for communication and perception. When we move our hands, especially, in this space we affect perception – our own and others’. Science is just now showing us that the intuition and understanding of many NLP practitioners and teachers has some validity in fact.

When you shake your head and answer yes, your perception as well as the perception of others you are attempting to communicate with will feel confused and your message will probably be missed or at least be misunderstood.

Sources:
Article “Two Sides of the Same Coin: Speech and Gesture Mutually Interact to Enhance Comprehension” Psychological Science.
Barbara Isanski – Association for Psychological Science

Are you good enough for transformation? How do you know?

Why do you want to transform your life? Just what is it you think is going to be better than what you are experiencing now? Why do you think transformation is what you want? Why do you think that transformation is the answer? And what is the question that you feel transformation will answer? And where did you get your question – did you come up with it yourself or did you inherit it from someone else – an authority perhaps?

What do you intend to transform into? Will you be richer? Taller? Shorter? Have a slimmer body? A better job? Will you look like a super model? Maybe you will have that “perfect” relationship? What is your standard you feel you don’t meet? Is it your standard or did you inherit it from someone else – an authority perhaps?

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The American Heritage Dictionary defines ritual as “a detailed method or procedure faithfully or regularly followed.” We all have rituals, or set patterns, to take care of procedures we wish to have done faithfully regularly, such as tying our shoes or brushing our teeth. The more complex and potentially dangerous the procedure, the more important such proceedure is ritualized to assure quality and safety.

Rituals are essential to being able to use some of the most powerful RET techniques in a responsible and controlled manner. The more powerful and potent the change technique (i.e., RET), the more important safeguards become. In RET these safeguards are kept in place with ritual to assure quality and safety when using them.

Let’s explore some of the reasons we RET technicians strive to keep the RET “ritual” pure.

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Organizations and businesses are wise to invest in employee personal happiness.

“The benefits of a psychologically well work force are quite consequential to employers, especially so in our highly troubled economic environment,” Kansas State University researcher Thomas Wright said in a recent article published in the Journal of Management. “Simply put, psychologically well employees are better performers. Since higher employee performance is inextricably tied to an organization’s bottom line, employee well-being can play a key role in establishing a competitive advantage.”

Methods to improve well-being include assisting workers so they fit their jobs more closely, providing social support to help reduce the negative impact of stressful jobs, and teaching optimism to emphasize positive thought patterns.

None of this is new to those NLP practitioners and coaches working with organizations. The importance of this report is as it relates to a business’ competitive edge. In today’s market of rapidly diminishing returns on investment (ROI), perhaps the best ROI is that invested in employee job satisfaction. And to do that, organizations and businesses are wise to invest in employee personal happiness.

The job is not entirely what makes people happy. People can make themselves happy with their jobs. To be happy you must either do a job you love or love the job you do. Either way, you love your job. And when you love your job, magic occurs. Oh, yes, indeed!!

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