NLP in (Physical & Astral Planes), Creative spirit + Other Tips
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It's important to realise that everything I have written up can be used in many situations so I adapt my examples and techniques if it will benefit. Also bare in mind some of the terminology I have made up as I don't know all the correct terms.
Included:
• NLP Info (basics)
• NLP technique (Detailed)
• NLP technique (Quick)
• Astral NLP info
• Example of Astral NLP/ Lucid NLP
• Creative Spirit & Dual meaning Info (+videos)
• My experieince with creative spirit
• Love
• Other tips
NLP info (basics):
When I first of heard of Neuro Linguistic Programming I assumed it would be a very complicated psychological process, but as I learnt more I actually found the various NLP techniques are actually fairly easy as long as you understand what you want to achieve and the process. At my current understanding I would say NLP is like an interface which you can use to interact with your mind in ways you may find very difficult otherwise.
It can be a very effective way of accessing the brain and fine tuning and altering information and other aspects within the mind. This is useful to alter things such as emotion & memory, fairly similar to hypnosis in the way its helps access the sub-conscious. It's also important to know NLP can cause both positive and negative effects which often happen without any conscious intention and awareness you're doing so, this can result in dramatic change both physically and mentally.
There are many NLP techniques to "program" your neuro network and when using these techniques you can train your brain into changing maybe a habit, or any other issues. In addition the basics of NLP also require little expertise to gain the desired results along as theirs an understanding of what is being done and why.
To be more specific one use for NLP could be to overcome a fear of leaving your body and this is the example I will use to demonstrate a couple of NLP techniques below. Ill start with a technique I feel works very well and remember that nothing in the technique is set in stone Im just showing you some basics which I encourage you to look further into and even create your own techniques.
Although we shift states of mind like change in emotion but when you want to change that mind set intentionally it becomes easier if the mind has a guide in the form of an understanding of how and why the change is happening. This is why NLP works well because you can see the steps to why and how your mind works on certain levels which can help greatly especially when it comes to body language which I will get onto later.
The main reason I find NLP to be very effective is because humans tend to find things in physical form easier to understand and deal with as opposed to the mental aspects. For example if I was to say turn the tap and water will fall from the tap and fill the sink whilst also demonstrating, then its easy to understand because you can see it and can tell from past experience that turning the tap will result in action.
But if you mentally want change but your mind only really remembers how physical actions cause desired reactions with intent then it's not so easy for your mind to just change with and intent alone unless it has a process to follow, or if its taken over by another emotion or thought ETC. So by turning your mind mentally into some-what of physical matter helps the mind better interpret you intent into a reaction just like what how the mental mind perceive physical change.
For the techniques below you can practise with others, alone, in meditation or even while doing a handstand if you really feel comfortable that way but of course I recommend you either sit or lie down. Im going to write this up like a demonstration although I would advise you to read and understand the technique first. Maybe you could give it a try later as reading while also trying it out may influence your own perception with my examples.
So for the 1st stage "the understanding" it may help to not meditate so you're free to move, which I find works better, then for the 2nd stage "the action" start to meditate, the deeper the better so you have everything out the way for the action visualisation.
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You may want to make sure no one will walk in the room when your practising the technique, I can imagine someone walking in and thinking your going crazy while you appear to be stroking fin air.
Detailed NLP Technique
The Understanding
As I mentioned for an example I will show you how I would use a particular technique to overcome a fear of going out of body. Make sure you are comfortable and take in the reason behind the process as opposed to following instructions. Its important you understand these processes not just remembering them. Before you get into the NLP you can just sit down and relax your body, simply doing some slow deep breathes for a couple of minutes should get you relaxed enough.
Then cold then think about the fear you may have of leaving your body, let that fear grow and amplify by focusing on it so you can actually feel it. It may make you cold or your vision slightly blur. What ever you feel, see, hear through your senses use as a basis for which you will eventually interpret into an overall representation of what you see that fear as, which is why I call this section "The understanding" and part of 1 of 2 stages.
Also remember you will not just be using your stimuli to see what the fear is represented like but you will also be looking for even deeper rooted parts of this fear such as the reason you have this fear and the reasons you want to change. As for representation, for all the parts you pick up for fear for example via touch ETC are representations which built up to your overall representation of how you perceive fear.
In addition you should also take into consideration certain things such as habits (smoking, drugs, and alcohol) tend to be harder to change. The representation you get from your stimulus will also differ from person to person, there's no universal right representation or sensations for what you are amplifying so don't just assume my examples are what you should experience.
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It's IMPORTANT not to force anything just observe so you don't built up a false representation of your true perception. Actions like moving the sound may sound strange as it's not a physical object meaning distance shouldn't change it but it's your minds perception of (for this example) fear so you can interact with the fear as well as manipulate it which is key to this process, but I will explain this later, first get through this section.
Sensation (Physical/mental)
We will start this process by pretending you pick up on a sensation first; let's just say for example your arms begin to feel slightly cold when trying to amplify the fear of leaving your body through your senses. Now you can work from that sensation onto the other senses. I would say the more detail you gather from each sense the better you will understand the fear in terms of its representation.. If it triggers a sensation just remember it or jot it down then move to the other senses either adding to or starting fresh with the next sense.
Touch (texture & shape)
Next you may attempt to feel the fear using touch. Its possible using your physical or even energy hands may help with this; you could put your hands out and try to feel what the fear feels like. Remember for touch it won't be a physical sensory input but it's your minds perception/interpretation that senses its texture and shape; let's say you feel it has jagged edges and a rough surface.
Sound
Now try another stimuli say auditory, so now you listen to what if any sound the fear emits. You may not hear much but you could try visualising holding the fear up next to your ear to amplify the sense further which could help get a grasp on what if any sound you perceive. As you listen we'll say the noise is very loud and is a high pitched pulsating type noise.
Taste
With the above, sensation, texture, shape and sound another possible stimuli is taste. The taste may be hard to pick up so keep in mind your representation doesn't have to have taste, so don't think you have to pick up something for every stimulus. We will say for now you taste the fear as an acidic like taste and now we can move on to an additional stimulus.
Smell
So the last main stimuli would be smell. As you do with all the other stimuli try to amplify the smell, what does it smell like? Is it a familiar smell? You may have to filter out any external smells such as a bonfire which is fairly important as you don't want your interpretation to not be what you're actually trying to perceive. As you smell the fear well say it smells almost acidic like the taste with a very potent smell of petrol.
Final representation (The bigger picture)
After those five main points you would now have a good overall picture of how you perceive the fear of leaving your physical body. Remember you may want to keep notes of these perceptions especially for future use. You never know when you may find these perceptions, good or bad, useful. You may want to compare how your perception has changed since you last tried the technique. Overtime you may find the fear for an example becomes very subtle in appearance or you may not even get any stimuli (smell, sensation...) indicating the fear has gone.
Now we have gathered the overall representation of the fear of going out of body, which was:
Sensation - Coldness
Texture - Rough surface
Shape - Sharp edges
Sound -Loud high pitched pulsating noise
Taste - Acidic
Smell – Potent petrol like smell
Remember you may want to also add additional perceptions of fear which will result in a further understanding of the fear maybe you could introduce the emotional response you have aside from the obvious fear maybe a slight nervousness or also the colour, weight, aesthetics and so on. I like to think of "The understanding" above as creating a key. But as you now have a key its time to open the door, which in this example will give you the access to the fear to set it straight and show it whose boss.
You see Im now relating to the fear as if it is now a physical object, even a conscious living being and that's what you're after. To create something mental which may seem beyond your control and very distant into an object which is now at eye level and ready to be manipulated and changed. This is the purpose of the understanding so now its time to make the desired manipulation.
The Action
Now on stage 2 "the action" its time to turn the representation/ (fear of leaving your body) you have created into an object and deal with it in a physical manner. From my point of view the fear of leaving your body is perhaps instinctive and a natural reaction to something that is out of the ordinary but from my experience this fear is not needed and as a result I think the best action would be to forget this fear.
So if you want to forget the fear then you will have to choose a physical action which is pretty much the same as forgetting but in physical terms. Now, personally for me I would say to forget in physical terms would be to lose or destroy so that is what I will use in this technique but remember If you are using NLP on a different situation other than fear match up your chosen action with what you want to achieve.
So we will use destroy to replace forget as destroy tends to be more absolute and permanent. So now we have to use the fear's representation we used our senses to interpret then destroy it. So after the understanding part you will have to keep the textures, sounds ECT in your head so you can then do the action part of the process which is why I recommended writing the various stimulus down during the understanding .
For the action, an example of what you could choose to do is first visualise a box which would fit the shape and size of the object (fear). Then imagine or visualise placing that fear into the box and close the lid tight. Now to strengthen this action you could maybe padlock the box and reinforce the box as much as you feel necessary so the fear is secure inside which will hopefully add more mental reinforcement also.
With this all done you could simply imagine putting on an explosive charge onto the box then simply blow it up. It will help if you put as much visualisation into the actual destruction using all your senses. Smell the explosion, hear the loud bang, ETC and at the end visualise nothing left, put as mush intent behind this maybe aided with repeating something along the lines of "it has gone" and that's the technique complete.
Remember you can use NLP to find things within in the subconscious or even become more aware of certain situations, for example if you was lacking happiness and wanted to become happier then you interpret the understanding of when you was once very happy, then you could think of an action similar to attraction, maybe a hug or pulling, you see where Im going here? For an action or manipulation you want to replace a mental action (forget, remember, find) with your physical interpretation of the mental action (lose, bump into, stumble upon).
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For a more advanced ending to the above process I guess you could also add to it. When you visualise the explosion, you could also gather all the stimulus you visualised while destroying the fear such as the smell of the explosion and then replace those stimuli with the previous fear.
You may also want to create a new action, using my example you could visualise a new box and label it "fear of leaving the body" and then visualise the stimulus you gathered from the destruction and placing it in the box. Theoretically I believe this will not only forget the fear but will also replace it with the intent of getting rid of the fear.
Quick NLP Technique
I also remember a quick technique I found somewhere which I think may also be useful. Let's say you have some confidence issues and want to become more confident for maybe a speech or to meet a girl/guy. Well start of by thinking of a time when you were very confident maybe the time you one a motocross race or you just felt really confident in yourself.
Now hold onto that feeling, let your body absorb that feeling from your past experience, once you have a good connection with what it felt like then do a simple action about 3 times such as a simple touch to the back of your neck. While doing this remember that whenever doing this action again the same confidence will come back instantly.
Obviously you don't really want to an over elaborate or embarrassing action which you wouldn't want to perform when the time comes like a moon walk, but hopefully your desired feeling will comeback. It's likely a little conditioning I.e. practise will bring better results and keep the process fresh.
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Also another interesting point is as you read the above NLP methods its likely as you read you was also visualising doing the various actions which helps you understand the process of the technique which is actually doing NLP but you probably didn't realise you was doing it. This is how NLP can happen without you even realising so you may want to bare in mind when reading make sure you realise you could be picking up bad messages just form reading negative worded texts in certain circumstances.
Advanced Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) - Astral NLP
Astral Projection + Neuro Linguistic Programming = Perfect combination
Now I consider NLP in the Astral Plane an advanced version of the normal NLP in the physical, the reason? Well the reason I believe it's a more advanced form of NLP is because you can create instant manifestations of the representations of say anger, love, or even a representation of an event. But (and this is a big but) you will be immersed very literally in the process. Instead of visualising you will actually be directly interacting with your mind primarily the sub conscious. Almost like cutting out the middle man, the process of visualising each stimuli response being the middle man.
From what I gather most people who study and practise Astral Projection and/or Lucid Dreaming know that you have the ability to manifest thought forms at will, you can manifest random objects, a memory and all this is very useful for NLP. Also remember sometimes a thought form/representation can be very literal say a thought of spiders could manifest a spider but it could also manifest as a playing card falling from the sky with a picture of a spider on it so it may require a good level of awareness and look out for your manifestation which may not be obvious.
The example below I believe points out how doing various NLP techniques in the astral planes can have a more direct control on your mind and could actually help many people with loss of memory, going through a traumatic event or even someone who just forgot where they left their keys. It's possible that people already do this when there dreaming, lucid or not, or in astral travel and often without the knowledge of doing so. Maybe people sometimes get over the mourning of loved ones by confronting the negativity while they are dreaming or the opposite and attracting relief and acceptance. In addition don't expect miracle results in terms of what you desire, like most things these things take practise, the more the better.
Example of Astral NLP/ Lucid NLP:
For this Astral NLP example as I call it we will create a situation which could be sorted out or at least helped using Astral NLP. Imagine a woman called Jane, she recently had a car crash and has been mentally traumatised by the events and she's having a hard time dealing with both the memory of the event and the negative emotions.
Well Jane has the ability to Astral project or /become lucid in a dream and use NLP to help her grief and deal with the memory and the emotions from the crash in a level of realness which probably isn't likely to happen while just doing normal NLP in the physical. This means that the representation of the memory and emotions has a better quality of solidness which as a result makes any interaction more effective and even more direct to the mental counterpart of the representation which is what you are ultimately trying to change.
So Jane learns how to Astral Project or even Lucid dream which I believe also works and decides she wants to overcome what has happened so she can get on with living life. She then manages to project and she conjures up the manifestation of the event and emotions. Bare in mind the astral can be very unpredictable, maybe Jane creating this manifestation will cause the environment around her to change into the location of the accident for example. Or she sees a bus pull up and it drives Jane to the scene, there's many possibilities so you may want to have a thought out method of creating this thought form. We will just say she ends up at the scene of the accident and sees a shadow in an odd form that is very negative looking.
Being in the situation you will most likely know what represents what and Jane would probably understand what the shadow represents and we will say the shadow represents all her negative emotions. The shadow could have manifested in many forms maybe even the same appearance as if she was to visualise what her negative emotion would look like doing NLP physically.
Well now Jane has created the representation of the event (environment) and emotions (shadow) and has control of the situation. It is now important for Jane to stay in control and not let the fear or other emotions take control. Not to waste time Jane goes straight to the dark negative shadow and touches it with the intent of the shadow being set on fire and it does as she intends.
As the shadow being the representation of all the emotion she's being trying to get rid of, now she destroyed the representation hopefully the emotion will now be gone or less painful. But the memory of the event may still be present and being in the location of the accident in astral may just be the manifestation of the event still in her memory.
So now Jane has to deal with this additional manifestation. As before you could use any action in the astral planes what you consider related to its mental likeness. For example to (overpower=crush with foot) (forget=destroy) (remember=find in pocket) and so on.
So Jane could blow up the environment but for a less destructive outcome she could also start to fly into the sky and keep going until she cant even see the planet anymore and maybe even get so far away she wouldn't even be able to find the planet again therefore the action of losing the accident scene results in forgetting the memory. After Jane fly's away and looses the accident scene that's about it and the techniques done.
- [Note] The example above is just so you get the understanding of the process and a simple look at how NLP can be utilized in an Astral or Lucid situation. Also remember NLP Manifestations for future use, as before you should try and keep note of the manifestations, one year later Jane could have a dream of being back in the environment of the accident which may be an indication that those once accepted and forgotten memories are starting to creep back which may require another dose of NLP if needed.