Awaken2Life

Hello all,

Today I thought that I might share a few ways to handle stress with you.  Use them in good health and pass them on to any friends or relatives that might be able to use them.

1. Use self hypnosis daily to take some time for yourself. 10 – 15 minutes is ideal.  Visit my site to learn a simple and effective technique for free.

2. Learn to see problems as challenges.

3. Trust in other people. Believing that there is no one decent out there can greatly damage your mind/body.

4. Make sure not to isolate yourself…simply talking things over with someone else can be quite beneficial to you.

5. Recognise that the only person that you can change is yourself.

6. Accept that some things aren’t as important to others as they are to you.

7. Be tolerant and learn to forgive.

8. Avoid unnecessary competition.

9. Recognise stress. Do not adapt to feeling it so much that it becomes a normal part of your life.

10. Examine yourself and find the things that cause you stress then avoid them.

Namaste,

 Paul

Hello all,

Lyn and I just returned from an excellenet week of holiday.  We split it into two parts.  Over the first two days we shopped and from the mid to the end of the week we camped in Glastonbury.  Though it was an excellent time, I am glad to return to the hustle and bustle of my therapy work.

Today I just wanted to share an energy technique that is good for removing negative energy that is causing you to feel uptight or sad. 

!. Rate on a scale of 1-10 the amount of negativity that you experience when thinking on the negative thought.

2. Tap the following points: forehead (one inch above and between eyebrows), Under nose (under nose and above upper lip), under bottom lip (the depression between lip and chin), and chest (upper section of your chest)

3. Repeat this procedure until the negative feelings come down to zero.

Should you find that this pattern does not work or that you can only bring the numbers down to a certain point there is a good chance that you might have what is known as a PR reversal.  Please visit my site or email me at paul@awaken2life.com to learn some ways to get around it.

Namaste

Paul

Good morning all,

 Yesterday I shared a basic anchoring technique that can be very helpful when used in the right manner.

 Today I actually wanted to give a word of guidance.  Too much of one state of mind is never a good thing (yes, even happiness).  So when is the right time to use anchoring to change the state of mind?

Anchoring should only be used when your current state is limiting you and there is no lesson for you to learn from it.  Let me give you an example.  Suppose that a relative has died and you are responsible for making the funeral arrangements.  You are grieving and find it hard to think let alone arrange things.  You might choose to change your grieving state for one of neutrality until the business aspect is complete and then allow yourself to grieve afterwards. 

Obviously in the above example you would not want to stay neutral about your relative’s death forever.  It is important to grieve.

So use anchoring sparingly and wisely.  Help yourself through in rough times, but do not attempt to remain in any state too long nor lose out on life by bypassing needful states.

Namaste,

Paul

PS contact me at awaken2life.co.uk if you wish to discuss this further.

Good morning all,

One of the techniques that I use quite frequently in my practice is anchoring.  This excellent NLP technique can be used in a variety of ways. Today I wanted to give you a simple version.  You use this technique when you wish to change your state from sad to happy. Here are the steps:

1. think of a time when you were the most happy
2. In your mind see what you saw, hear what you heard, and allow the feelings to wash over you. 
3. Now make those feelings greater still by making the picture bigger and brighter and the sounds louder and closer.
4. When you feel at the height of your happiness touch your little finger to your thumb.
5. Do this ten times to make sure that it is set.

Now you are armed.  Next time you are feeling sad touch your thumb to your little finger.  Note how you will change state right away.

If you want to keep this anchor permanently, make sure to use it.

Namaste,

Paul

Good morning everyone,

One of the most FAQs I get from my clients is whether it is better to see a therapist or to purchase one of the million self help books that are on the market and heal himself/herself.  This is a very complex question and so many aspects need to be considered before the perfect answer can be obtained (and please note here that the “perfect” answer greatly varies from person to person).  Today I simply want to scratch the surface with a few factors that I consider to be important before one makes a final decision and pursues it.

1. Money-Many clients wish to balk at the high price of therapy and like to call the therapists attention to the fact that they can purchase a very good book for less.  Though this appears initially true, consider the following point.  Books can be quite complicated to comprehend well enough to act on without some help unless of course the reader has been trained as well as the author or the author has the rare talent of communicating so well that no questions are raised in the mind of the reader.  You will not be able to determine if either one of these is the case until after you have purchased the book.  Thus, you may need to purchase several books along the same lines to fully get the picture.  As a person that buys many books to stay on the cutting edge, I know this can be quite costly.  If it were not necessary for my trade, I personally would rather pay £60 an hour (the time it takes to heal many complications by the way) than to purchase quality books (that cost £20 each on the average) to sort out just one problem.
2. Motivation Factor-Unless you are naturally a very motivated person it is hard to persevere through your healing process alone.  A therapist can help to motivate you in many ways and if worth his/her salt will also be by your side supporting you.
3. State of Mind-Remember that by the time one admits the need for help that he/she is usually not in the best frames of mind.  It is difficult and sometimes impossible for one to change to the necessary state to administer healing for self (especially if depression has set in).

Namaste,

Paul

Good afternoon all,

I spent the better part of the morning researching some “new” therapies for both NLP and EFT.  And by in large I must say that I was impressed with what I saw.  These two fields are always evolving (that is why I choose to be a part of them). 

The interesting thing that I noted there is that the “new” processes were new only at first look.  As I took the components of each practice apart, I found the base components of things that I have been using in my counselling for over fifteen years.  Sure they were renamed and slightly redefined, but they were the same principles.

Then it struck me….the genius of this age is not in finding all new principles, but in taking all of the old ones and combining them in efficient ways to bring healing.  This concept really excites me.  I look forward to all the creative therapies that will rise up over the next few years.

Namaste,

 Paul