This is my “depressed stance.” When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve got to stand like this. ~Charlie Brown

Now, we have had enough explanation of the NLP based technique for installing peak states…let’s take it for a test drive.

Here is the picture of the 9 squares again for review. Copy and blow it up so you can have it in your hand while you go walking thru the spaces.

9 Square NLP

Now, choose any state you want to install or amplify. For fun, how about “being committed to making your dreams come true”. Stand in the center square. Ask yourself something like: “How would I be standing if I was absolutely committed to making my dreams come true? How would I be holding my body? How would I be breathing? What would I be feeling in my body? What might I be saying to myself? What might I be seeing in my minds eye?” Access as much of this state as you can and then move into square 2.

Hold the paper so you know where you are going. And say something to yourself like: “I am moving into the place of casual observers from my future. These observers sense, or experience, or see me with this resources, this peak state of being absolutely committed to making my dreams come true, and they have some positive messages for me about how they experience me with this new resource”. Stay there in the 2nd square until you sense these positive messages. They are always there. If you must, change the language to something like: “What positive messages could they have for me?” Once you sense the positive messages go back into the center square, the place of here and now, and receive those messages. Thank the casual observers for their feedback if that feels appropriate to you; for most people it does feel appropriate.

Now, add those positive messages to the state, access as much of this state, this being absolutely committed to making my dreams come true as you can, and taking all of this with you, step into square 3. Again, take your paper along with you so you know where you are going. You have stepped back into time, into the place of significant others from your own past. This is a great place for healing! You go into your own past, but with a new resource, and people that were important to you then have positive messages for you about what it is like to experience you with this resource. You can literally go back and cure issues from your own past that still haunt you today with this technique. This is a technique called “Changing Personal History” and is beyond the scope of the exercise tonight, but you will experience some of the same transformational results by going back into your own past and seeing how things play out differently when you go there with this resource. Remember, there are always positive messages waiting for you so expect them. If something negative comes up, acknowledge that it is there this time, recognize that it has most likely been there for a great while and it can stay there for now. Look just for the positive feedback and you will find it. Gather it, take it back into the center square, receive it, be thankful for it and let it add to the experience.

By the way, if there is anything negative in your past, here is a fun question: “What resource or resources would I have needed in my own past for the negative experience or negative information to be gone, or never have happened at all, or for me to have experienced this negativity in a way that did not hurt me”? Why not go into your own past, do just a bit of time traveling, and give this gift to yourself?

I don’t want to put too much emphasis on negative experiences with this exercise. They are very rare. But I did want you to be warned in the unlikely event that they do happen.

So how do you finish up? You go thru each square in order, paper in hand, and see what positive information is waiting for you. Add, let it build and enjoy!

As soon as I can figure out how, hopefully by tomorrow’s entry, I will upload audio instructions for this exercise.

Till next time…Jack

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. ~Berke Breathed