NLP Exercise 4

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"Unleashed" soundtrack
track 19




EXCERCISE 4: Identifying What Makes an Experience Compelling

This excercise will help you find out how your brain "codes" images to increase your motivation by making them so strong you're naturally compelled to take the steps to achieve them. It's important to give your full attention to this exercise.

1: Strongly Motivated Experience. Think of a task that is really attractive and compelling to you. Think of something that isn't really fun to do in itself, but whose rewards are so great that you really want to do it. When you think of it, you find it attractive and compelling. What's important is that YOU find it attractive, and you actually do it. And when you're experiencing being attracted, look at the image in your mind the way a movie director might. Notice the cinematic qualities: the set, the lighting, the sound. See all this so clearly that you could make a movie out of it, one with rich, vivid detail. Having done that, temporarily set aside this attractive experience.

2. Seperator State. Take a breath, let it out, and look around.

3. Nuetral Experience. Now think of something you don't care about, such as a paper cup, a pencil, or a piece of paper. When you've chosen something, look at it in your mind's eye. Experience the feeling of not caring about it. Again, be like a movie director and list the cinematic qualities of this inner image.

4.Seperator State. When you've completed that, clear your mind again by taking a deep breath.

5. Compare Experiences. Notice the difference between what you found very attractive and what you didn't care about. Our brains are designed to notice differences, and you need to compare things to appreciate the differences. Here are some kinds of differences that many people find:
The "very attractive" was brighter; the "Don't care" was darker. The "very attractive" was in color; the "don't care" was in faded colors or black and white.
The "very attractive" was bigger and closer; the "don't care" was smaller and farther away.
The "very attractive" was located more in front; the "don't care" was located off to the side.
The "very attractive" had sounds or words, perhaps exciting ones; the "don't care" was silent.
Make a list of all the differences you find between these two experiences. These are the elements that your brain uses to indicate that something is valuable to you, and worth being motivated about. These are your keys to being motivated.

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• NLP
• exercise
• Identifying
• experience
• compelling

[fraMichigan]

here's a fun one.

clasp your hands in front of you, fingers interlaced. focus on your hands, and say, "my hands are glued together, my hands are formed together, my hands are one." again and again, holding you focus and not letting other thoughts enter your mind for 90 sec. visualize it, FEEL it. If you freak out for a moment and really feel as if they are formed together as one, you've done well. :)

this is uselfull only to illustrate the power your mind has.

[yawehking]

I'll try it, thanks.

[birthdayblonde]

This was a little crazy, I wasn't sure what to expect when I was watching it.... For the thing I cared about I imagined feeding the homless and when I thought about it I imagined a well lit cafeteria but when I imagined throwing away the pen next to me I could barley see it because it was very dim. Very interesting.. =] Thanks for the experience

[ancestralblue]

Good points! The fact that as our brain is the processor defining how we see things is most definitely attached to the value we apply to situations within our lives. This in turn sets the tone for the hearts torus in producing vibration. If we want to raise that vibration, we do have to assess the way that we percieve. Any outcome can become a positive using such principles. Any task can become a joy, when we mature into "playing" our own "keys" with consciousness. Thankyou yahwehking!

[rashka58]

Amazing! To know how work our brain is very impirtant! Thanku!

[kronozgorilla]

magik and NLP great

[germanberserk]

i am always looking for inlightment yawehking but i diont have time to be getting the books and stuff i would like yto at the moment thx u for ur vidoes this one was very calming