Disease Prevention Questions
Inner organization is as important is outer organization & most of us have problems in both of these areas. Look around in "your world" & you will also see your "inner world" staring you right in the face. Most of us do not want to see this & so we stay very busy & far away from reality. Imagery & interactive self-hypnosis help us get back on the path & it is with this metaphor of the "goal-den path" that we set up our organizational plan or program. It is the same for my clients in Sarasota, as it is for those on the www. We work with both inner & outer organization at the same time & find that while we feared being overwhelmed, it is just the opposite. We find ourselves in control.
You are going to need some supplies to work with your mind in this powerful way; a small journal, a larger journal or notebook, at least six colored file folders, regular paper & some self-stick notes. We are ready to begin. We are going to use a powerful organizational mind-image of a Golden Path and individual goal gardens. The very first folder is the over-view, labeled Goal Gardens. Open the folder and on one side place a piece of paper with a schematic of your Golden Path and the positioning of your separate goal gardens. On the right of the path sits only one garden, the Mindbody Health Garden. This garden houses all body part plants. It is the most important garden on the path. On the left of the path are your other gardens. Some include your home, work, finances or prosperity, spiritual, and relationships. You will have separate gardens for each relationship. The most important one is with yourself. If you have other garden areas that pop into your mind, do add them. On the other side of the organizing garden folder place a major emotional management list. These are frequent child emotional visitors on the Golden Path that go between gardens. Make one list for "out of control" negative-based emotions, and the other list for positive strong emotions. Label a separate folder for each garden starting with the Mindbody Health Garden. On one side list Plants to Nurture. My list goes something like this; nutrition, meal planning, exercise, calcium, teeth, .relaxation, entertainment, and self-growth. Then make a list of emotions to enhance, those that will make the garden prosper. See them as children with their names of their tee shirts. Some of mine include Relax, Have Fun, and Celebration of Self. Next, a list of the emotions to be aware and diminish. Some of mine include a variety of compulsions, fears and involvement in harmful foods. On the other side of the folder build a grass catcher list. This is rather like a future to-do list and it helps us to make our daily to do list. Now move to your other folders following the same format. Each day we begin a discipline. Utilize the small journal as a gratitude book. This is a very powerful emotion to cultivate. Make your list and go to your garden folders. Start with the schematic folder, even though you know what is in it. The subconscious mind likes repetition. See your gardens and review your emotional lists. Perhaps you will add to those on either side. Next open each folder and see what comes to mind....anything to add? Look at the grass catcher list? What work will you do in this garden TODAY. We work in each garden each day or weeds get out of control. Move all of the things you will do today to your current to do list. Don't over-load, but don't be lazy either. When you are done, open your larger journal and begin your conversations with your subconscious mind. This is called writing from the right side of the brain. Converse about anything you want, perhaps discussing a particular garden. You will get plenty of messages, perhaps a new important awareness related to a big weed or rock, and new ideas. Follow this powerful self-growth discipline on a daily basis, through all weather and watch the beauty of your gardens emerge!
You might like to check out some of our audio programs on these subjects, or The Deskside Coach Program. Other audio programs that help manage emotions can be found at the personal development audio link.
Self-discipline is everything. Our ability to develop this is vital to optimum performance be it in preventing disease, achieving a high level of sports or performing in the workplace. We develop this powerful mind state on the Goal-den Path. If you haven't read the paragraphs about designing a plan, you might like to scroll up and do so. We work with this plan throughout our day & learn to manage our emotions effectively & efficiently. The better we get at this, the better for our outcomes. We learn to image outcomes in the frame of "what we want" & certainly take all images & frames of "what we don't want" & dispose of them. As we do this continuously we begin to see changes in outcomes.
You might like to check out some of our audio programs on these subjects, or The Deskside Coach Program. Other audio programs that help manage emotions can be found at the personal development audio link.
Developing Persistence & Perseverance
We learn from what we have & from what we don't have. We learn from where we are in the moment. In our practice these are called the "lentils." A jar of sitting lentils on your desk is a great metaphor for your moments in the day. Each moment is filled with possibility for health & preventing disease. At the same time it is filled with the possibility of just the opposite. When working to prevent disease our job is to persist in our pursuit of prevention knowing that "all lentils count." This metaphor keeps us out of immediate gratification & into long term health goals. Without this approach we tend to hang out in momentary lentils, feeding our immediate gratification with sugar, alcohol, nicotine, stress & the like promising that "tomorrow" we will clear things up & work towards prevention. Tomorrow rarely comes.
You might like to check out some of our audio programs on these subjects, or The Deskside Coach Program. Other audio programs that help manage emotions can be found at the personal development audio link.
Imagery keeps us motivated. It also keeps us improving our inner programs. When we design our goals they are often incomplete & not as grand as they could be. We often sell ourselves short because of low expectations & old inner programming telling us what we can & cannot do. Our dreams often reflect this. The subconscious mind is waiting in the wings to take us to new heights. We achieve this by working in the moment with motivational images. I like to program two types. One set takes me towards something I want such as running five miles or earning a certain amount of income. Another set takes me away from something I don't want such as diabetes or piles of medications & bills related to ill-health. All images live on the screen right behind my eyes. To open the screen all I have to do is breathe from center, allow my body to relax, tilt my eyes upward & bring the images forward.
You might like to check out some of our audio programs on these subjects, or The Deskside Coach Program. Other audio programs that help manage emotions can be found at the personal development audio link.
How Hypnosis Works in Disease Prevention
Self-hypnosis allows us to program the subconscious mind for what we want. While this sounds simple on the surface & the mechanism is easy, it is important to learn the subtleties of doing this correctly. My private clients & those on the web work with a tool I developed called Interactive Self-hypnosis. It allows for precise programming in any moment whatsoever. We learn to move into heightened awareness. We make this movement with the help of an emotion, thought or body communication. The actual release of this helper takes us to the subconscious library door. We then connect with the inner librarian & give her the message of what we want. We do this through "hot images" or inner movies. Perhaps we will show her "our goal book." We have many metaphors available to us, & the more the better. As we begin to live a metaphorical life, we progress in achieving a higher level of health, as well as in all areas of our path.
You might like to check out some of our audio programs on these subjects, or The Deskside Coach Program. Other audio programs that help manage emotions can be found at the personal development audio link.
Mental Biofeedback & Body Communications
Body communications is the name of the game. The better we learn to listen & request outcomes, the better for us. It really is as simple as that, but it is in the doing that the power is apparent. Most people are completely out of touch with their body & live a life in high level stress. Then, when a particular part of the body needs attention they are surprised that they have little or no control over it. The immediate thought is to take something to get rid of it, and while there is nothing wrong with taking medications for pain or body sensations, by doing so too quickly we miss the opportunity for reprogramming the body & following with the programming of goals.
The art of managing body communications is done through learning mental biofeedback, body scanning & awareness meditative tools for managing thoughts, emotions & body sensations.
You might like to check out some of our audio programs on these subjects, or The Deskside Coach Program. Other audio programs that help manage emotions can be found at the personal development audio link.
Awareness Meditation & Other Inner Tools
As we learn to slow the mind processes & thereby cut back on the production of stress chemicals, we can begin to notice the workings of the emotions & how they place VCR tapes in our mind. We can begin to see how these tapes play out in our body communications. This is vital learning, because once we can see what is, we can choose to change. We can change nothing, we can change something, or we can change everything. We have taken back control from our old position of helpless & hopeless. This in itself is a major program change & plays out beautifully in the mindbody process. It is the program of healing & inner learning. 60-80% of disease is stress-related. The good news is that you can control this percentage to the degree you develop & practice mindbody tools.
I often hear clients say that they cannot meditate because their mind is full of clutter. They have some idea that the idea of meditation is to "clear the mind." The purpose of this type of meditation is not to clear, but to "see." The clearing comes through imagery, or interactive self-hypnosis. This type of meditation is a "living meditation" & is practiced throughout the day & certainly when hanging out in a "pain or stress moment."
You might like to check out some of our audio programs on these subjects, or The Deskside Coach Program. Other audio programs that help manage emotions can be found at the personal development audio link.
The Nutrition Link to Disease Prevention
We are a nation of poor eating habits & addictions. Much of this is related to lack of education, manipulation by the food industry, stored emotional states & old programming of "comfort eating." The problem is that often those very foods eaten in an unbalanced way can make for problems, some very serious indeed. We are a nation of addicted people heading down the paths of our ancestors only decades earlier. Most of us are addicted to sugar-based foods & high glycemics. We over-do on fats & junk. Some of us are hooked on nicotine or alcohol. All addictions are sugar related. For more information search this site on the main program page. Many people have food sensitivities to foods that play out as pain, & so it is very important to have a good look at one's dietary intake, including beverages, if one has pain issues.
It is paramount to design a high level nutrition plan for yourself & for your family. Keep your nose on your own Goal-den Path & start to be self-responsible. You are the only one who can do this for you. The doing or the not doing will determine your outcomes.
You might like to check out some of our audio programs on these subjects, or The Deskside Coach Program. Other audio programs that help manage emotions can be found at the personal development audio link.
Learning to practice self-hypnosis at high levels requires a training discipline just like anything else. One cannot just sit down, read a book & expect to do self-hypnosis well. While hypnosis can be applied to many areas, the first order of business is learning to quiet the mind with the discipline practice of awareness meditation. This allows us to see the mind in action with it's thoughts rolling through, the emotions playing games & the body sensations answering sometimes in wild concert. In Interactive Self-Hypnosis we learn to utilize all of the aforementioned to speed us into the subconscious library. Once there we are free to re-program, edit old files & program new future goals. All this can be achieved in any moment. Deep sustained trance is not necessary.
Deeper trance is useful for achieving many goals including exploration, programming, healing & future pacing. It can be beneficial in pain management & also for surgical procedures. This level of achievement requires a sustained practice of induction & deepening. It is a good idea to practice going to all levels of deep relax while keeping the mind alert. This level of control offers many benefits to the individual. Learning to work with metaphors & a wide variety of images allows the subconscious mind freedom to become creative & send up valuable suggestions for goal achievement.
You might like to check out some of our audio programs on these subjects, or The Deskside Coach Program. Other audio programs that help manage emotions can be found at the personal development audio link.
Developing a Discipline for Hypnosis Practice
It is important to develop a discipline to practice the art of self-hypnosis. The time spent in this endeavor will never be regretted as less than 2% of the population knows how to utilize their mind in this way. This puts the practicing individual at the top of the pack. I suggest a daily practice of awareness meditative tools & programming in the moment, as well as imagery practice. My clients & students work with workshop audio programs at least weekly & learn to apply workshop tools in the moment to effect change. The more one practices, the better the outcomes. Students are continually surprised by the increase in synchronicities as they continue in their daily practice.