Changing your mind

Someone close to me has been going through some big emotional upheavals following a relationship breakup.  They have found that they are trapped in a cycle, like a stick in a weir, of doing okay for a while then feeling miserable again.  There are all sorts of things that can help, including just allowing time to pass, the support of friends etc.  They have recently found that some NLP techniques have been helping them to literally change their mind.

The thing is that our brains run a series of behaviours, like a computer runs programmes, mostly these are tried and tested and help us navigate our world, but occasionally they trap us in a negative spiral.  You can play games with your mind to reprogram your brain and create new patterns.  You can do this by things like changing the nature of the voice you hear, changing its location, making pictures black and white or fuzzy to leach their emotional power.

Recognising our own patterns, both the positive ones and the ones that undermine us is important if we wish to change.  So it appears that changing our minds is much more than a figure of speech if we are going to move on.  What have your experiences been of changing your mind and what kind of thing helped you?

“A wise man changes his mind, a fool never”   Spanish Proverb

“You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future”

Resources:

• NLP treatment of phobias 

Tags: changing your mind, NLP, programs

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