Re: Aligned Self
At 12:11 24/11/1996 +0000, Ely Britto wrote:
>I am from Brazil and new in this list, so forgive my English. : ). I am a
>therapist, I work with the I Ching and some PNL techniques. I am trying to
>be a no smoker for more 5 years now. I have being with good PNL therapist
>(in Brazil), I did laser acunpuncture, some strong subliminal Russian
>techniques. After 30 years as a student of the I Ching and a Inner Alchemy
>practice I consider myself as someone with a spiritual goal. People who
>treat me from my habit of smoking told me that the reasons of my smoking is
>a spiritual one and very difficult to resolve. I read this piece of post
>here and I became very interest in CT and aligned self strategy. Could you
>please tell me where I can get more information about it? Has this list a
>file where I can read the past post?
Welcome Ely, I do really think that the spiritual brasilian syncretism
can be a very strong source of inspiration. To answer your questions.
Core Transformation and Aligned Self are the same process labelled
under different names.
The CT process is thoroughly explained into small chunks in the book:
Core Transformation,
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Reaching the Wellspring Within,
Connirae Andreas with Tamara Andreas (her sister)
1994, Real People Press
ISBN 0-911226-32-X
Can be found in US at http://www.nlpinfo.com
As we are currently running a french translation of the book, I have
read it several times and I can recommend it. There is also a spanish
translation but I don't know whether there is a portuguese one.
I guess the Andreas have also produced audio and video tapes.
To read the mailing list archive you'll have to download files at
ftp://users.aol.com/addictnlp/
nlp-addi.txt is the text file archive
nlp-addi.zip is the zipped (compressed) file archive (at least twice smaller)
>About my habit of smoking my instructor of Inner Alchemy, (a millenary
>technique of transforming sexual energy in spiritual force), told me that I
>need fire in my lungs that is why I smoke and this hobbit will cease
>naturally when I get enough fire through the practices I am doing. Fire
>(yang) means a hot energy that circulate in our body. The PNL therapist had
>used the timeline and the Switch (is this the name?) strategy and it didn't
>work. Someone here could talk about this, please?
The name is swish, it's an usual NLP technique to give up an habit. It works
at the behavior level and can't have any effect at the identity or spiritual
level, can't it ?
As a very powerful self-help technique Core Transformation could be very
useful for yourself. I guess you could do a lot of other things as anchoring
the internal state of feeling "the fire in your lungs" and using this
anchor to be connected with this internal state. I don't have much
experience dealing with smoking so I guess that anyone else out there
would be more experienced and will help you.
Be well,
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Bernard Frit