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Ralph281
05-19-2007, 01:17 PM
Hey. How can I feel like I can do anything and that I have no limits?
Poodle
05-19-2007, 06:29 PM
NLP wiped out all the negative and limiting beliefs you used to have. ;)
Hi, Ralph, and welcome.
I would say that everyone has limits. For example, can you use only your legs to jump high enough to escape gravity and safely land on and survive on the sun? I don't think so. That's a limitation.
Or can you right a symphony of the quality of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Brahms or Schubert in five seconds? That's a limitation.
So I would respectfully suggest that you begin by abandoning the concept that you can "do anything" and have "no limits" and instead focus on what you would specifically like to achieve (basically, anything anyone else has ever done) and expand that to even more.
As Poodle has suggested, NLP can help you achieve this quickly and easily, and I would suggest finding a local NLP practitioners.
I would also suggest more focus: what is it, specifically, that you want to achieve? What is it, specifically, that you feel you are limited from doing? Once you answer these questions for yourself, you can--perhaps with assistance--create a map of where you want to go. Until you know where you want to go, you have no way of getting there!
Hey. How can I feel like I can do anything and that I have no limits?
Hey. Easy. Become Poodle, or Merlin or Skip..but wait..what if you can't?
Jack
Simon
05-21-2007, 08:14 AM
Your unconscious nose that you have limits or you would be in big trouble!
If I'm correct you are asking us how could you go in a state of confident determination?
I remember Bandler explaining that you can feel determined if you focus all of your attention on two spots just an inch below each of your eyes.
Charlie
05-22-2007, 09:46 AM
I remember Bandler explaining that you can feel determined if you focus all of your attention on two spots just an inch below each of your eyes.
I remember that too.
And since he mentioned it, I've noticed it's something I do.
Something LIKE this :
Step 1. An external event occurs.
Step 2. Auditory Internal voice says "I'm going to do something about this"
Step 3. Kinaesthetic Internal response of 'Determination'
Step 4. Visual Internal movie of me 'doing something about this' ( movie is extremely/'unnaturally' fast (kinda 'Time Distortion', I guess) )
Step 5. Eyes focus downward, just below eyes.
Step 6. Repeat of Step 3.
Step 7. Roll over and go back to sleep. ;)
( jus' kidding re Step 7 )
:)
Ralph281
05-22-2007, 09:59 PM
Your unconscious nose that you have limits or you would be in big trouble!
If I'm correct you are asking us how could you go in a state of confident determination?
I remember Bandler explaining that you can feel determined if you focus all of your attention on two spots just an inch below each of your eyes.
Confident determination seems pretty close to what I am looking for.
Poodle
05-22-2007, 10:10 PM
I know you have been very confident about something in your life. Go back to that experience and re-enter it totally, seeing what you saw then, hearing what you heard then, feeling what you felt then, smelling what you may have smelled then. ANCHOR IT! Then slide that anchor increasing in intensity - stronger and stronger and stronger. Return to now and when you want that feeling, just touch that anchor. Works EVERY TIME! NLP is just sooo difficult.
Ralph281
05-22-2007, 10:11 PM
I remember that too.
And since he mentioned it, I've noticed it's something I do.
Something LIKE this :
Step 1. An external event occurs.
Step 2. Auditory Internal voice says "I'm going to do something about this"
Step 3. Kinaesthetic Internal response of 'Determination'
Step 4. Visual Internal movie of me 'doing something about this' ( movie is extremely/'unnaturally' fast (kinda 'Time Distortion', I guess) )
Step 5. Eyes focus downward, just below eyes.
Step 6. Repeat of Step 3.
Step 7. Roll over and go back to sleep. ;)
( jus' kidding re Step 7 )
:)
Using time distortion is an interesting idea. Unfortunately, the internal limits in my mind make performing time distortion difficult. How do I do time distortion with these limits? Are there any special methods that I should use? I hope this question isn't too hard for the forum members. I apologize if it is.
Ralph281
05-22-2007, 10:14 PM
I know you have been very confident about something in your life. Go back to that experience and re-enter it totally, seeing what you saw then, hearing what you heard then, feeling what you felt then, smelling what you may have smelled then. ANCHOR IT! Then slide that anchor increasing in intensity - stronger and stronger and stronger. Return to now and when you want that feeling, just touch that anchor. Works EVERY TIME! NLP is just sooo difficult.
A sliding anchor? How do you do that?
Merlin
05-23-2007, 09:13 AM
Well, make it simple (terminology wise)
Make a volume control and turn it up.
Poodle
05-23-2007, 11:07 AM
Why not go to a great NLP Training where you will learn the skills, have fun, get rid of some problems, learn Time Distortion, etc.
We have some pretty fancy labels for things, but they work sooo simply.
What I asked you to do is called a 4-Tuple to access the desired state. I was doing a Kinesthetic Anchor (touch) while Merline was using an Auditory (hearing) Anchor and then Merlin asked you to use a Submodality "by turning it up". They are just fancy labels for easy processes. Don't get caught in the jargon.
NothingButAName
06-12-2007, 07:54 PM
Once upon a time i did affirmations, every single day i would write a full three pages of one sentence that i would like to have come true in my life. after a few weeks of this, my hand became VERY tired and i started to realize that these things were actually rewiring my mind. i would write things like "i can do anything that i choose to do". i would also say it out loud with conviction and throw my hands around as if i really really meant it. this all had the effect of making me super confident (gained all kinds of friends hung out with bands and lost my virginity during this time period) for the time being anyway until about two weeks after i stopped doing the affirmations :/
Poodle
06-12-2007, 09:05 PM
You still can! :)
The only limitations are "self-imposed".
I might like to lose my virginity again.
I suspect I could do it a bit better the second time around.
;)
skip
Poodle
06-13-2007, 11:01 AM
That lucky lady - Pood ;)
Simple Guy
06-13-2007, 05:21 PM
[quote=skip;47584]I might like to lose my virginity again.
I think that there is a Christian organization that is pushing for 2nd time
around virginity, but achieving that would be a polarity response
to what you "might like." ;)
I might like to lose my virginity again.
I suspect I could do it a bit better the second time around.
;)
skip
I know what you mean, but I wonder, might you? could you? Would knowing what you were doing lose something of the experience? How excited could you be if you knew what you were doing? Would it just be mechanically better because you knew where all the bits were? Or is that awkwardness part of the experience?
Personally, I remember mine with fondness and the kid I was and wouldn't change any of it.
Jack