Take Control of Your Life!

I’ve just come back from 7 days of intensive training with Richard Bandler, the co-creator of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) – and what an adventure it was!

Here’s me and my pal, Pete, giving one of our daily video assessments of the course for our colleagues in the Marketing Masternmind forum we belong to (you’ll notice that Pete isn’t quite as ‘glass half full to overflowing’ a person as I am, but he’s getting there!):  Jools & Pete report!

As well as learning how to use NLP and hypnosis, I also learned how to cure phobias – and I realised that phobias start with our thoughts, which is amazing to understand because we can take control of our thoughts any time we want to, when we know how.  A lady on the course had actually come home from a holiday in Borneo a week early, last year, because of her fear of snakes!  After 20 mins of working on changing her thoughts and her mental pictures, she was holding a flippin’ big snake and smiling!  Powerful stuff, eh?

Let’s face it, everything starts with a single thought – every idea, every action, every fear, every phobia.  When we know how to take control of our thoughts, and the pictures we create from them in our minds, we give ourselves free reign to be fabulous, joyous, brilliant, adventurous and free from the crappy, limiting stuff that’s been holding us back.

As Richard Bandler said, referring to the freedom of being in control and knowing how to intensify the good pictures & feelings that we have – ‘How much pleasure can you stand?!’

My answer – ‘As much as I can physically, mentally and emotionally muster!’ (which is one heck of a lot!).

Learn how to control your thoughts and you learn how to take control of your life – how fabulous is that?

Signing off for now,

Jools x

PS If you watch all the 7 videos, be aware that we’d been to the pub some evenings and it only took one drink, on an empty stomach, to render me bleary-eyed!  What can I say?  As you well know by now, I’m only human after all!

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