Singing to my clients

[Connie]

Who else does this? Sing to their clients. Today I had a "procrastinator" in my office, and one of his key words was "rolling." He wanted to get things rolling...so during trancework, my unconscious mind (and my mouth) up and starts singing the Rawhide song:

rollin' rollin' rollin'
though the streams are swollen
keep them doggies rollin'
rawhide....

You get the idea!! He laughed (in trance) and when he emerged he wanted to sing it as well. You know I installed something there! We had a great session, actually.

Other client today, I sang her clown/circus music to overlay her negative self talk. do do dooodle oodle ut do do do...

I've never considered byself "American Idol" material, but lately I've been singing. To my clients. A lot. Mostly it seems for my own amusement, though the clients seem to like it as well. Perhaps it's because I'm primarily auditory. I do sound effects, too. :) I like "whoooosh."

Today I was thinking...who else gets to sit in their office singing the rawhide song and get paid for it? :D

[Don]

I think the only problem you might have is if the person likes "filk" songs.

For those who don't know, a filk song is one that uses a well-known melody but has different, often humorous lyrics to replace the original lyrics.

If I had heard you singing that, I would have thought of the lyrics I had created for that song about a certain Norse deity....

Odin, Odin, Odin
He's that great god Odin
Odin, Odin, Odin
One eye!

As with any suggestions, the success of the suggestion may be modified by any conscious or unconscious associations the client has to those suggestions.

[Connie]

That's right...we had already talked about TV westerns and he's a fan. Hop Sing, Little Joe, the whole Bonanza gang. So, I must have figured he'd like "rawhide," too. I know my brothers did. :)

We did lots of work, that was just one tidbit (which amused him and me). We did a "Godiva Pattern" swish on his motivation, a parts integration, and an anchor collapse on the sick, empty feeling he gets (got) when he contemplates all he has to do.

Nice, nice man, a newly self-employed business entrepreneur--he knows how to succeed just had trouble getting it ROLLING.

[Poodle]

I don't know if singing would be the correct word, but I believe sound effects are truly a part of NLP. Listen to Richard!!

Then you mention Godiva. I read it on line yesterday from another site - "break state -- say your phone number backwards"
To me, that is going a bit far.
break state -- say your phone number -- should do.

After my pc gets fixed, I'll send ya a picture of a teenage me with Hos Cartright (Dan Blocker). They had come for the fair and rodeo when I was in high school.

As for rolling -- my mind went straight to CCR -- Proud Mary keep on rolling, rolling, rolling down the river.

Pood :)