NLP 7th Week 12th November

This week the eleven of us looked at BELIEFS. We had a chance to listen to tape to see how it affected us in terms of our beliefs about ourselves. the exercise really opened up into different areas of experience like visiting the dentist, fear of flying, phobias that people had (being put down for example). I thought through some of my worse fears and beliefs and they triggered off a certain flight from Cancun to Mexico City in 2006 when the plane was hit by some object and dived for about 10-20 secs until the pilot regained control. Also fear of the dentist was high as I am anxious about the neddle and drill and bad experiences once more. beliefs can be self fulfilling prophecies and statement like 'ought' 'should' 'must' can really cause damage in our lives. Face the fear and do it anyway is a good way to tackle things that 'bother' us. I have thought about giving presentations to a new class and feeling cool and calmy and not able to focus properly. I need to get a 'state' that I can use to do the talk. I think by using anchors (I liked what Chris Moon called 'foundation stone') and also role modelling techniques I can do it! Others fear which were mentioned focused on work relationships and how to 'change' the mindset in which we operate. One useful technique I now use is to imagine what I would like to happen (see it through my eyes) and then email te person making sure I copy in relevant staff who are kept in a loop of knowing outcomes and issues.