❏ You are independent, in the sense of believing that you
have control and influence over your own experience.
❏ You believe that you can influence your state and health by
the way you think.
❏ You are capable of generating whatever state you want in
yourself: relaxation, excitement, peace, confidence.
❏ You take care of both your body and your mind and keep
them fit.
❏ You create the memories and imaginations that you want to
have and you have the ability to do this.
Successful people in any field hold the belief that mind and
body are one. They know that by looking after one they are
simultaneously looking after the other. As memory and
imagination have the same neurological circuits, they
potentially have the same impact.
Feldenkrais (named after Moshe Feldenkrais) is a process of
awareness through movement. Moshe Feldenkrais helped people
who had lost the use of their limbs to find ways to make new
neural connections in their brain and in so doing to find ways to
relearn movement they thought they had lost. He believed totally
that mind and body are one—that by developing new choices in
one we automatically create new choices in the other.
This belief is at the heart of all NLP. With NLP we have
discovered the details of the way we hold memories and
thoughts. We know now that by developing our mastery of the
way we represent these thoughts, we can change our
experience of the present day.
Remember your first day at secondary school. How do you
remember this? What came to mind first? Was it an image, a
memory of someone's voice, a feeling? What followed?
Another image? Sounds? What are the qualities of the
memory? Is it bright, dark, loud, gentle? Your memory and the
way you hold that memory are unique to you. That unique
representation is what gives the memory its quality.
Without the representation in your mind it is merely a
statement, “First day at secondary school.” What makes it live
as a memory is the way you think about it.
KNOWLEDGE,
THOUGHT, MEMORY,
AND IMAGINATION ARE
THE RESULT OF
SEQUENCES AND
COMBINATIONS OF
WAYS OF FILTERING
AND STORING
INFORMATION
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