Re: Stopping the Internal Dialogue
- Subject: Re: Stopping the Internal Dialogue
- From: McClendon & Associates <mccassoc@iig.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:43:26 +1000
>Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 20:15:10
>To: nlptalk@ecuinfo.cowan.edu.au
>From: McClendon & Associates <mccassoc@iig.com.au>
>Subject: Re: Stopping the Internal Dialogue
>
>At 12:59 PM 10/6/96 +0000, you wrote:
>>>
>>>I have read many books on NLP and have done some training as well.
>>>I am very interested in NLP's application to meditation and
>>>spirituality. Does any one have an easy strategy for Stopping the
>>>internal dialogue ?
>>>
>>There are several application of NLP and Hypnosis to assist in stopping
the internal dialogue. Here are a few:
>1.An ancient NLP technique 1970' goes like this.
>Go to a quiet enviornment.
>Place yourself in a relaxed and comortable position.
>Imagine an object approximately 8-10 fet in front of you.
>Anchor this on your right knee.
>Repeat this process anchoring the left knee.
>Imagine the two objects slowly coming together.
>When they are just about to join, fire of both anchors. The internal
dialogue will stop for a short perid of time, anchor this state.
>Repeat the steps until you can lengthen the time frame.
>This tecnique is called stopping the world.
>2.Using reframing. The old tried and true 6 step reframing technique works
well also.
>Find the part generating the internal dialogue and negotiate with it to
allow you to stop your internal dialogue for short periods of time and build
this up to longer periods.
>The key here is to reassure your internel dialogue part that after stopping
for a short perid of time, you will go into down time (relaxed trance)and
allow it to review for you what transpired when your internal dialogue is
stopped.
>Always set up a signal to cue you if your internal dialogue starts without
you wanting it to so you can get back into state.
>3.Use submodality shifts to slow down and quieten and shift your internal
dialogue to obscurity.
>4. Access a survival state, time when you almost had a car accident or your
life was threatened or perhaps a peak experience in sports when you had no
time to think, only to respond and experience.
>Anchor this state. Go through this several times until you can build up the
length of time that your internal dialogus is stopped.
>These are a few to begin with.
>
>Good Luck
>Terry McClendon,
>McC&A
>
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>>Stopping the internal dialog is easy - for short periods of time
>>(a second or two). You JUST DO IT. Don't think about it, do it.
>>
>>The situation then arises that thoughts try to make their way into
>>your brain. Your response to this situation affects what happens
>>next.
>>
>>The usual response is some sort of critical thought. "Damn, I've
>>started thinking again". "I didn't stop thinking for very long that
>>time". "I'll never get the hang of this". etc.
>>
>>This judgement of failure is what gets you thinking again. And then a
>>vicious circle develops.
>>
>>If you can realise, at the point where the thought/internal dialogue
>>tries to get you thinking, that _you have not failed - you only
>>*think* you have_...
>>
>>then you will continue to not-think.
>>
>>Now go off and don't think about this - DO IT.
>>
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>>I acknowledge Barry Long for this teaching.
>>
>> jon Nicoll
>>
>>
>>--
>>Jon Nicoll Symbionics Video Ltd. St. Johns Innovation Park
>>Cowley Road Cambridge CB4 4WS UK. Tel. +44 1223 421025
>>
>>
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