A Puppet in the skin of butterfly? - Free Will (Part 1)

As humans we have always been proud of the thought of having free will. It is considered as one of the most important gift we have. Because that sets us apart from other species on this planet. That's what gives us hope, gives us our motivation, a purpose to live life and at some level a sense of being fulfilled. It, infact, will be one of our greatest achievement to be able to think and make decisions on our own. To be able to do things that we really want to do. To create dreams on our own and pursue them endlessly.

 But the question is, do we really have free will?

 

What is free will?

 Dictionary suggests:

 The power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion.

 

Think about all the choices that you have made in life … the person you choose to love and get married to, the job you are in where you think you are happy, buying toothpaste or clothes that really makes you feel good. Think about the most important decisions that you have made in life.

Were they all really your choice or were they really a summation of unconscious influence on your mind by the external environment.

 

You will be, infact are, the biggest idiotic moron to think otherwise. I mean if you really belived there was free will you are the dumbest person on this planet. Even animals who are not proud of having free will are smarter then you to realize that free will is just a myth. I dont think you even deserve to think, because when you think you are collectively bringing down the IQ of the world with you. 

Well now knowing that you are an idiot, how well would you rate this article?

 

Now ofcourse, I didnt mean any of my above words. If you weren't smart I am sure you would not be reading my blog. 

Yet, take a moment to think about what just happened. If the above words were really portrayed as true, would that have influenced your decision to how well you rate this article. My guess is yes. 

Even though you may think the choice to rate this article was your own, it is very well influced my by smartly placed paragraph about you in between. If that paragraph wasn't there, you would have rated this article very differently. 

So, the choice you make from free will , very well depends on what & more importantly how are thinking NOW. In this moment. What are your thoughts/state when you are about to make a decision. 

 

So where does these thoughts come from? You think them, but how do they originate? what's their point of origin?

Is God inserting them in our mind? Or are our mind really controlled by aliens? Or do we create them ourselves somehow that we still dont understand. 

(We will explore more about this in part 2 of this article) 

 

Experiments suggests that most of the choices we make as humans are not from free will but manipulated from our previous experiences, current & past environment and other convenient factors.   

Below is a brilliant real life demonstration by Derren Brown where he shows how the external factors unconsciously influence us each moment in our life.

From the video, you can notice (Caution: Do not read further if you haven’t seen the video yet) until the truth is revealed the marketing executives believe that the idea that they came up with was their very own. 

But as seen from the video we all know that it was not the case. At every point since the time they sat in that cab till they finished their final draft, they were continuously influenced by smartly placed messages by Derren Brown. 

Scientists suggest that even when you decide to move your right hand by an inch,  that decision is influenced by external stimulus.

 So, think about all those important decisions again? Did you really want to decide them or were those decisions made for you? 

 

And if we think about little bigger picture,

So who are we really? Humans who have developed a great civilization on their feet by making choices that were previously considered as free will. Or some puppet in a meat who act and do things as directed by other factors/people.   

Who are we as humans? Who have we really become? What’s our identity in this world?

 Is it someone that we really wanted to be? Or is it someone that we have become by accident?

 

And more importantly …

  

Even after knowing this .. do we still really have a free will to change who we are ? or are we still going to live our life by chance and be happy or sad (or any kind of emotions) by being who we are by accident? 

 

 

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Every now and then I am asked about what NLP is and how can it be useful to us. This comes from people who have a basic understanding of what NLP is and also from some who have no idea about NLP and have just happened to read about it somewhere, or a friend or colleague has told them about it.

Let’s, first look at the literal definition of NLP - NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming.

Neuro stands for our Neurons, which basically stands for ‘the way we think’.  

We, as humans, have a unique thought process. The way we think, the way we make our memories and the way we experience life are basically constructed through our senses which are

●        Visual

●        Auditory

●        Kinesthetic

●        Olfactory

●        Gustatory

In simple terms, our thoughts are constructed through our senses mentioned above.

Linguistic stands for ‘the way we communicate with ourselves and the world’. We use 

●        Pictures

●        Sounds

●        Feelings/touch

●        Smell

●        Taste

to communicate with the world.

Programming stands for our ‘patterns of habits, behaviors and emotions. ‘

By studying and learning from these relationships people can transform the way they traditionally think and act, and can start adopting a new and far more successful model of excellence.

In short, the literal definition of NLP can be taken as a more effective way to Program/Reprogram and influence our own or other’s mind and produce magical results in the process.·

If you are reading about NLP for the first time or you have a very basic knowledge about NLP, most likely the case will be that you are still not clear about what NLP is and how can it help you. This is ok, even I took some time to really understand what NLP is.

In its simplest form, NLP can be defined as ‘Science of Excellence’; Excellence in results and in the process of obtaining those results.

Let’s take an example to understand about NLP better.

If you were really good at Mathematics and lets say I am not so good at it (It’s just hypothetical, in reality I am super good at it ), I can use NLP to model what you do, the way you do it and how you do it to significantly achieve same results as yours in absolutely no time. Using NLP, I would be able to learn and model what you do, how you think, what you think, how you use your body and take note of the minutest details possible. Using this information I would create a structure of ‘how to be good at Mathematics’ and apply it on myself to start producing the same or even better results than yours, with respect to Mathematics. In fact, not only I can produce better results with your observations but I can train others also to apply the same structure in their life to be better at Mathematics.

One of my other favorite example is about developing confidence. From the time we were born till this minute a lot of people in different areas and in different context must have told you about being confident. Even when we go for seminars investing thousands of rupees they tell us, “if you want to be successful you really have to be confident”. But has any one ever told you ‘How to be confident?’. This is one of the places where NLP helps you to create structure of confidence and using that structure you will be able to experience confidence anytime you want.

In fact, NLP was first developed by Richard Bandler (a Brilliant Mathematician) and John Grinder (an Effective Linguistic) on the principle of Modeling. They modeled some of the best and most successful people involved in fast-change therapeutic work from several different areas and then used their observations to apply it on their students. Amazingly they were able to produce the same results at even faster speed than before.

At First NLP was developed keeping therapy in mind but since then it has spread across almost all the the different fields.

NLP has whole has a lot of skills involved in it which includes using our body, using our language, thoughts, memories and lots of other skills to create the kind of results we want to produce. Having said that, even if we are able to learn one skill and master it, the amount of success and the sense of achievement it can bring us can be beyond our imagination.

In a nutshell, NLP is what you make of it. NLP can be the thing which you are doing now to get your desired results. Hope understanding this explanation of NLP has helped you. Keep checking the blog section to get some of the most powerful articles on how to use NLP in different areas of your life. These techniques which we will share are some of the most effective techniques which you can master to get your desired results.

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Why are you doing what you love doing the most?

IF you had all the resources in the world, how will you live your life?

I am sure this question has been directed to you several times but if you were to just pause for a second and really think about it. What will/can your answer be?

 

Few years back, while I was on the horizon of loosing my interest in engineering I came across a powerful workshop. As this workshop made a huge difference to my life, I really wanted everyone to feel what I had felt during the workshop. See the way I looked at the extraordinary life that was possible for each one of us and resources that each one of us has to make anything possible. I really wanted to make a difference. As I started working with that company I got the opportunity to do exactly what I wanted to.

I did it for couple of years, until I decided to start on my own. The moment I decided to start on my own, for the first few months the purpose of making a difference was there and as time passed slowly it started shifting towards making a living. Just do enough – Do anything so that I can survive or be able to live a comfortable life.

 

Think for a moment and realize what you really wanted to do when you started out. A Friend of mine who worked as a consultant in one of the big firms started out with only one purpose in mind --Making a difference to each and every client and being with them in health and otherwise. He loved what he did. He loved the sound of applause and cheers when one of his clients performed really well. He always told me that the key to success is to have a personal relationship with each client and really being there for them till they achieve everything that they love doing.

As time passed by without him being aware of it, he started losing his purpose. There were more clients more money and more results. He knew money and success were important to him but In the process of making money and being success he started losing the real purpose as to why he was doing what he really wanted to do and he became part of that cycle until one day when he was totally lost and could not figure out why he was doing what he loved doing the most.

 

When all of us start out to do something we really have a strong and powerful purpose in mind but due to several environmental responsibilities such as taking care of our family, being successful, our focus starts shifting towards something else. And that something else might not inspire us as much.

 

Just a note to remember. I am not saying don’t take care of your family or don’t be successful. The Point is to do that while keeping your true purpose in mind.

 

Now imagine you had all the resources in the world. Imagine, all your responsibilities were fulfilled. Imagine you had all the money in the world.  How would you live your life now? What would you do differently? How would you do things differently? How will you get to a purpose, which makes you feel comfortable and inspired?

 

Once you have all the answers just check how different your life would be like when you start implementing the things that you have just answered.

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JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure | Video on TED.com

THis video is funny, powerful and gives you some of the most important lessons. If you have a dream and if you are little bit serious about achieving your dreams then watching this video is a must

JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure | Video on TED.com

Adrenalin Fun

In the early days of my training life, i used to be too scared to be in front of people on a stage. specifically if the strength of the crowd was above 100 people, i used to shit in my pants. At that time, any training including more than 50 people would be 'No training Zone' for me.

Like everyone experiences days when they have to do something that they are really scared doing - i also had mine. It was when one of my colleague bailed on me and i had to do the training all by myself. I tried calling the other trainers to fill in for me, but it was a short notice and no one could to make it. I was stuck and i was stuck badly. I had no other option with me but to go ahead and start the training myself. I was able to feel adrenalin rushing throughout my body. I literally started shivering. My senses were distorted. I already started seeing everyone laughing at me before even i went up on stage. I could already hear everyone making fun of me.

As i was getting closer and closer to the stage the feeling of adrenalin inside my body increased exponentially. Just 2 mins before i had to start - i finished drinking a whole bottle of water. While i was drinking a simple thought crossed my mind.

Where am i focusing on?

My Focus was mainly on imagining people laughing at me. Imagining that i am going to screw up. I realized keeping my focus on everyone not laughing at me wont be of any help. As the more i focused on everyone not laughing at me, the more are the chances of getting laughed upon (Its like i tell you don't think of pink elephant while the first image that would have came to your mind will be a Pink Elephant). While, if i shift my focus to making a difference to everyone, there is a chance i might not get laughed upon.

That was it, as i realized this, i told myself - "What the heck - Lets have Fun" and i jumped into the training making sure i have fun training and making a difference.

Obviously by now, you already know the result, the training went really well and the feedback was also pretty good for the beginners. But, more important than training going well, it was the fear that i got rid off, made all the difference. Next time when i went into a training with larger crowd - i felt very much comfortable doing it and at the same time had lots of fun also.

Here is the exercise

Step 1: - Think about at least 5 different things that you are not comfortable doing. Preferably within the next 2 days.

Step 2: -  Just go ahead - Tell yourself "What the Heck - Lets have Fun" (Or any other substitute that you prefer) and Jump into the situation having that adrenalin rush of not knowing whats going to happen at the same time curiosity of how much Fun you can have doing it.

Step 3: - While you are doing this be aware of the place where you are keeping you focus on. If its not useful, shift it to something that you find useful.

 Have fun Doing new things, while i would love to know your experience of doing this exercise.

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The Not knowing principle

Sometime back I went for an interview for the job profile of Quality assurance executive. My job was simple - Watch movies, Find the digital audio/visual errors in the DVD (If there are any) and Log it. In simple terms, I was going to get paid for watching movies.

It was a simple job to do and to acquire the job I had to appear for a test, where they would show me few clips and I was required to find errors in them. It sounds very easy and in fact it was very easy till I started using my brains. I wanted to catch all the errors which were present on those clips. So I started using all the NLP principles i knew - peripheral vision, overlapping of audio and visual to synchronize it with my mind, relaxing my mind - here is the best one - Let my conscious mind take over because I knew conscious mind can take only 2 bits of information at a time while for the test I needed around 6 (It was my calculation). While I used all these principles I lost focus from detecting errors to using all the knowledge I had about NLP. The result was obvious -  for the first few clips I was hardly able to finds any errors. It was just, in break, when I asked myself a question which totally changed the way I saw the next few clips.

If I didn't have some of the knowledge I had, would the test have gone better?

The answer to my question was undoubtedly 'yes'. In the process of detecting all the errors that the clips had, I ended up finding almost nothing. The tools and techniques I knew made the task more complicated inside my head than If I would have not know certain things to produce the same results. I believe without the knowledge I would have surely done much better.

As soon as I realized this, I told myself - 'if I want to detect all the errors there is only one thing I can do - Not know all the tools and techniques I know and GET back to the basics.

I am not saying knowing those tools and techniques is bad or not useful. Knowing those techniques are certainly useful - but we need to get aware of the times when knowing some of the things that we know are actually coming in our way to get results or deliver some outcomes. Also sometimes we tend to use our knowledge and skills as an excuse for not doing something.

Sometimes just by sticking to the basics and keeping it simple can make most of the difference.

Here is the Exercise for you

Step 1: - Take a piece of paper and list down the goals and outcomes you need to achieve in next 2 months.

Step 2: - Put down the list of things that you need to 'not know' to achieve these outcomes and goals easily?

Step 3: - When you get aware of the things that you are not suppose to know, just park them in some place of your mind where they are not lost, at the same time not coming in your way to achieve your Goals and Outcomes. (I call this place Parking Zone)

Step 4: - Get the total Focus on your goals, while at the same time be aware of your Parking Zone. Whenever you need something out from your Parking Zone,  just get back to that location of your mind where you have established your Parking Zone and pull out anything the things that you require.

If these things come again, all you need to do is be aware of them and park them in your parking Zone.

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The Not Knowing Principle

Sometime back I went for an interview for the job profile of Quality assurance executive. My job was simple - Watch movies, Find the digital audio/visual errors in the DVD (If there are any) and Log it. In simple terms, I was going to get paid for watching movies.

It was a simple job to do and to acquire the job I had to appear for a test, where they would me few clips and I was required to find errors in them. It sounds very easy and in fact it was very easy till I started using my brains. I wanted to catch all the errors which were present on those clips. So I started using all the NLP principles - peripheral vision, overlapping of audio and visual to synchronize it with my mind, relaxing my mind - here is the best one - Let my conscious mind take over because I knew conscious mind can take only 2 bits of information at a time while for the test I needed around 6 (It was my calculation). While I used all these principles I lost focus on detecting errors to using all the knowledge I had to do the best and the result was that for the first few clips I was hardly able to finds any errors. It was just, in a break, when I asked myself a question which totally changed the way I saw the next few clips.

If I didn't have some of the knowledge I had, would the test have gone better?

The answer to my question was undoubtedly 'yes'. In the process of detecting all the errors that the clips had, I ended up finding almost nothing. The tools and techniques I knew made the task more complicated inside my head than If I would have not know certain things to produce the same results. I believe without the knowledge I would have surely done much better.

As soon as I realized this, I told myself - 'if I want to detect all the errors there is only one thing I can do - Not know all the tools and techniques I know and GET back to the basics.

I am not saying knowing those tools and techniques is bad or not useful. Knowing those techniques are certainly useful - but we need to get aware of the times when knowing some of the things that we know are actually coming in our way to get results or deliver some outcomes. Also sometimes we tend to use our knowledge and skills as an excuse for not doing something.

Sometimes just by sticking to the basics and keeping it simple can make most of the difference.

Here is the Exercise for you

Step 1: - Take a piece of paper and list down the goals and outcomes you need to achieve in next 2 months.

Step 2: - Put down the list of things that you need to 'not know' to achieve these outcomes and goals easily?

Step 3: - When you get aware of the things that you are not suppose to know, just park them in some place of your mind where they are not lost, at the same time not coming in your way to achieve your Goals and Outcomes. (I call this place Parking Zone)

Step 4: - Get the total Focus on your goals, while at the same time be aware of your Parking Zone. Whenever you need something out from your Parking Zone,  just get back to that location of your mind where you have established your Parking Zone and pull out anything the things that you require.

If these things come again, all you need to do is be aware of them and park them in your parking Zone.

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Laying the First Brick.

I had ventured into a E-commerce business about one and half years back. The Potential of E-commerce Business - was and still is - massive. When i started it, i had heard the stories about some great entrepreneurs who ventured into this industry and made a fortune out of it. Having heard this stories i had only one Goal in mind - To Be one of them. I wanted to make it big. Do whatever it takes to make THE PALACE for me. Every time i thought about taking any action towards my Goal, i could only see one picture - That Palace. I had realized that my Goal had a picture and it was building that Palace. Every time i set up any meets or made any sales call - building that palace was the only thing that came to my mind. I did that for about 8 to 10 months just to realize i was not producing any results out of it.

Then one fine day my friend showed me a video of Tony Robbins interviewing John Reese who was the first person in the world to make a million dollar in one day with online sales. He achieved this while having hit by a hurricane. You can find that video here .

One of the things that John Reese says  - You always start with laying that first brick,

Focus on making that 1$ first.

This line really made a lot of sense to me. When i started the business all i ever thought was to build that palace. And that is where i directed all my Focus. And whenever someone would reject my offer, i would take it as an obstacle in building palace, which was not very useful. While Knowing where to reach and Having a clear goal in mind is very important and at the same time it will be also useful to to keep your focus on laying down that first Brick and another Brick after that. Most of us get confused by being focused on the goals while they forget the necessary actions that are required to hit that Goal. All we need to do is keep the Picture of the palace in mind while keep your focus on laying down that one brick at a time. You keep your focus on laying down those bricks and you keep doing that everyday - in no time you will have your palace ready automatically.

Here is the Exercise

Take down a piece of paper and divide it into 3 columns

Step 1: - Write down Goals which are very important to you NOW in the first column.
       For Example: -  Selling specific number of products, Scoring good marks is Exams, Reducing Weight.

Step 2: - In column 2, Write down what are the necessary steps that has to be taken to Reach that Goal
      For Example: - Building a database, Making a study schedule, Taking only specific amount of calories everyday.

Step 3: - In column 3, Write down what is the first step that you need to take in reaching your goal.
    For Example: - Making 10 Sales calls, Studying for 2 hours, Eating only list of food items.

Step 4: - While keeping your Goal in mind, Keep your Focus on Step 3.
           You can stop worrying about how many sales you will make or how much syllabus you will complete or how much of weight you will reduce. Just keep you focus on Implementing step 3 and you will reach your goal without you knowing it.
"Keep laying those bricks everyday one by one and you will have your palace ready" - Its by me. :)

Step 5: - Every night check column 2 and create list of actions that you want transfer to column 3. Focus on these actions till you reach your goal.

Have Fun Building the palace of your dreams

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The Wealth Cycle

I am inspired to write this post from one of the articles of Micheal Neil. I really love his insights on life and money. In one of his post he asked a question which really made a lot of sense to me. That was

IF you had all the money in the world, how would you live your life?

Of course money is not the most important thing to consider when thinking about improving the quality of life, but when i answered this question i got aware of at least 10 different things that i would do differently if i had all the money in the world. This things are not materialistic. This were mainly related to my habits, behavior, beliefs and values. So the point was when i was operating from the frame of having all the money in the world - that helped me shift my mindset and the way i operate my life. Through out my day i was in a much positive states and i utilized lot of internal resources effectively. This in turn helped me create wealth which again helped me made my internal system much resourceful and effective. This ended up being a cycle where i created wealth to improve my skills and qualities as a person which in turn helped me create more wealth. Although i still haven't reached the place where i would like to reach, its still a start. And Now i am sure that i will achieve all the things that i want - very soon. 

Here is the exercise

Step 1: - Take a pen and paper and put down the answer to the following question

  If you had all the money in the world, how would you live your life?

Make sure to write this in terms of qualities and skills that you would like to achieve.
For example: - Here are the few questions that you can answer
- How would you feel in the morning as soon as you wake up?
- What kind of beliefs you will have when you know - you have all the money in the world?
- What kind of values you will have?
- How would you feel, or what will be the voice in your head telling you - while you are with people (It could be a meeting, Family gathering, in a class room, spending time with your loved ones)?

Step 2: - Once you have written it on a paper, you will know what will be different from how you are now to how you will be when you have all the money in the world.

Implement all the things that you have written down knowing you already have all the money in the world.

Keep the changes for at least 30 days and notice how you start a cycle of being more resourceful and being wealthy. You can keep the cycle going till you want.

Have fun creating your own Wealth Cycle to Achieve Success.

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Design your World

Around 5 years back i was really good at studies. One of the things i really love is learning about new things. Mostly the things which i have never heard of before. And studies was always about learning new things for me. At that point of time i had created a structure for myself. which i didn't know was there until few days back when i got aware of it.

During that time, i had kept my study table just next to a window. This window had an excellent view of trees all around the place and i could also hear trains passing by (i love the sound of it). That spot was magnificent. What was even more excellent was whenever i sat on that study table (which i considered as study Zone) i was always in the state of curiosity and learning. Whenever i went into that Zone to study i was always focused and i was able to understand and read much faster and easier. On the other hand whenever I studied in some other room or some other place or some other space in the same room, i realized i was less effective. More over Whenever i wanted to study i was automatically driven to that study table near the window.

One of the things that i made sure i did was, whenever a negative state or unwanted state is triggered, i would instantly come out of my Zone and deal with it first, then enter my zone again (Like when dad starts asking me for my accounts, i used to make sure i come out of my zone and then talk to him. Because most of the time it ended up in a fight). For the first few times it was very frequent but as the days passed the frequency of having unwanted states decreased and i got better results.

There is also other part of my life when i was not so good in studies. This was the time when i had moved to bangalore from ahmedabad. This was a new place for me and i still had to create my Zone. Obviously, at that time i was not consiously aware of creating a Zone. It just happens. This time in bangalore in my room i had created a excellent space for Fun and Creativity. As much as i liked this new Zone, I surely was not able to study with the state of Fun and Creativity. Most of the time i ended up spending in reading books not related to studies, playing games on xbox and watching movies. Its just one day before exam that i start studying and end up getting average marks.

All of us in our day to day life have created different Zones for ourselves. We have a specific desk in our office that can be our work Zone. We have a Bedroom in our house that can be Relationship Zone. We have cafes which can be connecting Zone. In each of these Zones we have attached a state to it. Now these state can be useful or not so useful -but- it will be there.

What will be useful thing to do is to get aware of The Zones you have created for yourself and what kind of states are you triggering in those zones. You check this by thinking about your Zone and noticing what is the first state that comes to your mind. High chances are that, this is the state that you have attached with your zone. Make sure to re-check it.

- A student who has been called in principals office can have attached the state of fear to Office (Zone) because he might have got a suspension before in that office, while some other student who has always been acknowledged in that office can attach the state of excitement in the office.

- For relationships a lot of couples attach the state of anger, irritation or boredom to their bedroom (Zone) while the others could attach the state of Respect, Romance, Fun to their Bedroom.

- Some people at their work desk(Zone) can attach the states of Boredom, Fear, exhausting while the others could attach the states like Fun, Creative, Passionate. 

Next, will be useful to write down in every zone that you have created - the states that you have attached are useful or not.

- For your Study Zone it will be useful to have states like Focused, Energetic, Curiosity. Also at some level Fun depending on how we take it. (When i say Fun, i mean Having Fun in studies not start thinking about other Fun stuffs) While the states of tension, pressure, Boredom would not be that useful.

- For your Work Zone you may want to have the states of Passion, Creativity, Even Peace. While you may not find the states of Anger, Tension, Pressure very useful

- For Relationship Zone you may the states of Love, Respect, Fun very Useful. While you may not find the states of anger, Frustration, irritation very useful.

You need to decide what kind of state will be useful for your Zones. For everyone the experience of each states will be different and so you will be the best person to decide for yourself.

Also make sure to keep a check weather the states that you are attaching with every Zone is aligning with the outcomes of those Zones. Like fun can be useful in your playing Zone while not as much in your Study Zone.

3rd step is to either create a new Zones for all the states that has unwanted Emotions attached to it, or shift the Emotions that are attached to the Zone. I personally find the previous one much easier but of course it has its own limitations.

- Get a new Study place
-You can make a request to give you a new cabin for your work Zone Or shift the states attached to your already present work Zone.

In relatonships Where couples have attached their Relationship Zone as Anger, Frustration and irritation can tend to amplify their states if they happen to start a fight in it. While Imagine, if they start a fight and just till the fight ends they come out of their Zone and may be go to a Romantic Dinner for fighting. Most likely the fight wont be as strong as it could have been. This is one of the useful ways to remove unwanted Emotions from your Zones. All you need to do it get out of the Zone whenever you are triggering an unwanted state. Get the Desired states in place and move back in.

You can also create New Zones if you already dont have them. (Like Creativty Zone, Imagination Zone, Dreams Zone Etc).
Once you create them, just install the desired states in the Zone.

Here is the Summary of the exercise: -

Before you do this exercise, it will be useful to get a pen and a paper.
Once you have pen and paper make columns

Step 1: - Get aware of The Zones you have created for yourself and also Zones that you would like to create. Write this down in the first column

Step 2: - Check what kind of states are you triggering in those Zones. Write this down in second column

Step 3: - Find out where all there are unwanted states attached to any of your zones and circle those states.

Step 4: - Either create a new Zones for all the states that has unwanted Emotions attached to it, or shift the Emotions that are attached to the Zone. I personally find the previous one much easier but of course it has its own limitations.

Step 5: - Write down all the states that you want in your new Zone or in the same zone in the next column.

Step 6: - Make sure if there are any unwanted states getting triggered you move out of that zone. Get the required states n place and move back into the zone.

After few days you will notice that whenever you get into your Creation Zone (It could be study Zone, Fun Zone, Work zone, Connecting Zone, Dreams Zone Etc) you will automatically trigger your desired state.
If they are not getting triggered then it could be due to one of the 2 reasons
- The intensity of your states are not high enough. So you need to intensify it
- unwanted states are still attached to your Zones and you need repeat Step 6.
 
You can use this techniques in several ways. You can create your own ways. I Would love to know how you have used this article in your life and how it has helped you?

Have Fun Creating and Designing your world according to how you want it to be. Make sure you use a lot of creativity and Imagination to do that.

Posted via email from Nishith Shah

NLP - What is NLP

What Is NLP?

NLP is the practice of understanding how people organise their thinking, feeling, language and behaviour to produce the results they do. NLP provides people with a methodology to model outstanding performances achieved by geniuses and leaders in their field.

A key element of NLP is that we form our unique internal mental maps of the world as a product of the way we filter and perceive information absorbed through our five senses from the world around us.

• Neuro: Each individual has established their own unique mental filtering system for processing the millions of bits of data being absorbed through the senses. Our first mental map of the world is constituted of internal images, sounds, tactile awareness, internal sensations, tastes and smells that form as result of the neurological filtering process. The first mental map is called ‘First Access’ in NLP.

• Linguistic: We then assign personal meaning to the information being received from the world outside. We form our second mental map by assigning language to the internal images, sounds and feelings, tastes and smells, thus forming everyday conscious awareness. The second mental map is called the Linguistic Map (sometimes known as Linguistic Representation)

• Programming: The behavioural response that occurs as a result of neurological filtering processes and the subsequent linguistic map.

So in short, NLP is a science of human understanding which can be use to achieve anything.

In today's World NLP is used in various fields like

Change work
Education
Training
Sales
Leadership
Marketing
Therapy
Relationships

NLP can help you in a way that will enable you to ...

Attract the right Person for you
Achieve your Goals and outcomes
Advance your career and make more money
Have a good relationship with others
Achieve your dreams
Share an excellent rapport with everyone.
Create your desired self-image
Communicate well.

Workshops we conduct based on NLP are ..

- BE Unstoppable. - Click here for more details
- Developing Coaching skills. - Under development.

Suggested Readings.

- Frogs into pieces by Richard Bandler
- Feel Happy Now By Micheal Neil
- Unleash the Power within by Anthony Robbins
- NLP Workbook
- Instant Confidence by Paul Mckenna

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'Feel good' decision making

Let me tell you a story of initial phase of my start up. Now you all know how start up works. In most of the cases there are ups and downs, its not exactly what we call a smooth run. (If it was a smooth run, will it be same fun?). At that point of time i was one among those people, who would easily get frustrated when things are not going as planned.. And guess what i was also one among the people, who take it out on others. (Common you have to agree, everyone have their time with it). One of the things, i got aware of while being in this phase was - every time when i got frustrated and took any decision - it was not on the productive side. For example, once i got so frustrated that i decided not to go ahead with the company. It was only the next morning when i realized that i had -what was i thinking?- time. So with this i realized whenever i was in 'a not so good state', i always made 'not so productive decisions'. And when i was in a good state i always made productive decisions.

Here is exercise for you

Step 1: - Every time you are about to make a decision ask this question to yourself .... How am i feeling? .. What are the feelings you are going through?
For example - IF you are about to make a decision to break up, just after you had a big fight with your girlfriend. Check with what emotion you are going to make that decision.
- If you are about to make a decision to not trust your co-workers just because some work is not being done. Check the emotion

Step 2: - If you realize, with however you are feeling, it's not useful to make the decision you are about to make, then make a choice - with what emotion you want to make that decision ?
For example - If you are deciding weather to break up or not, you may first decide to be in a more positive state and then make that decision. (May be happy/fun etc )

Step 3: - Get in your desired state - then make your decision.

Before you make any decision always have 'feel good' emotion. You will realize how amazingly it will help you to make a better decision.

Score turkey in Exams !!!

Have you ever hit 3 consecutive strikes in the Bowling ? .... Well ... when you do that, the graphics on the screen will say in BIG letters "congratulations you hit a Turkey".
Imagine how it would feel like having done that in your exams (of course metaphorically).

Two of the most important factors which plays the major part in getting better scores are BELIEFS and CONTEXT.

I am sure most of you know the story of a Rat and a Snake (True Story) . If you don't know then here it is...

Once upon a time there was a boy who was walking in the paddy fields of the country side. While he was walking and enjoying the serene around him, a snake bit him. He jumped and wondered what could have bitten him and that’s when he saw a tiny little rat next to his leg. “Ah! A small rat” the boy said and ignored his wound. He reached home and a good night sleep. The next morning he went back to the same paddy field and while walking, this time a rat bit him but surprisingly he looked down only to see a green nasty snake wriggling into the paddy. “Alas!! A snake has bitten me. What do I do?” he said and fell on the ground. He believed how will I survive this bite and in a few minutes he was dead.

So important thing here is to notice the fact that when this boy was bitten by a snake but saw a Rat passing by, he believed that he was bitten by Rat. As a result of which he survived. Same thing repeated again next day but this time he saw a snake passing by when bitten by a rat - He died.


So what you believe in to be real - will be real. And if you change your beliefs - you will change your reality


So even in studies its important to notice how believing that a specific goal is possible(getting above 80% or Topping university) will make it happen.

Second thing which plays an important part is the context from which we are operating. As i mentioned earlier, imagine your exam being the sport you love the most. I will take an example of cricket. Imagine writing your exam is equivalent to you scoring runs. Some of the questions you can ask yourself are - how much effort would you put in, to hit your first century? - How much would you practice everyday to score a century against the best team?

By shifting your context not only your score will improve but also while doing that you will have lot more fun doing that. Like find a partner and and check how can you create the most unbeatable partnership.


Here is the exercise that you can do

Step 1: - Set a Goal for yourself

Step 2: - On the scale of 1 -10 (10 being highest) check at what level do you believe that you will be able to achieve your Goal

If it is anything below 10 just answer this question - What needs to happen to make it 10 ?
Come up with at least 10 things that you can do to take your beliefs to level 10 and above.
(Some of the things that you can do is affirmations, create a study plan, have bench marks)

Step 3: - Relate studies to something that you really love doing. (sports, watching movies, listening to music, etc)
Here you make sure that you take it to micro levels in relating your favorite thing to studies.

Follow the process for at least one exam and get aware of how things shift for you to score better.

While following the process will help you to a massive extent we also conduct a workshop for the same which will change your perspective of exams and also install powerful beliefs. This workshop is also designed to remove your fears and unwanted emotions that stops you from getting your desired marks.
Click here to find out more about the workshop

Have fun Studying and Learning !!!

Affirmations

Using Affirmations are going to help you create small shifts that can create massive impact in your life...

I want you to know that, this process is not invented by me. I have merely shifted it in a way that i think will be useful. This process is done in different ways and for some people its useful to do it differently. I have attempted to create it in a way that will benefit you the most.

Before you carry on with the process i want you to read all the steps. When you use affirmations you will get an idea about the big picture - how doing this everyday for next 30 days will help you achieve the qualities you want for yourself. This will also help you create some strong beliefs that will in turn help you make those changes.

I am not making any promises for you to achieve anything, considering it will take for you to take action and follow the process regularly everyday. Only when you follow this steps, the process is gonna be effective.

Some of the steps may make you uncomfortable or you might find weird doing it. You might also not find yourself believing in it. Beliefs are not an issue. All we have to do is go ahead and follow the steps consistently.

By the end of the process, when it has made any difference to you I would like to know how this has helped you. So, any feedbacks are welcome.

What we are gonna do here is a process, which will help you create strong beliefs, and will help you to shift yourself from the person who you are to a person who you wanna be.

Before we move into the process, i would like you to get a pen and paper so that you can write down few of the things required.

Assuming, you have pen and paper by now, the step 1 would be to write the outcome you have in mind for yourself.

Step 1: - Write down the the qualities you want to achieve. This could be also in terms of the person you want to be.

For example: - Being more confident. Be able to do anything, Build rapport with anyone instateneously, Be more productive at work, Score good marks in exams.

Next step, would be to know what kind of beliefs you will need to have to achieve your outcomes easily

Step 2: -Write down the beliefs you think will be useful to have. Write atleast 5 different beliefs.

For example: - You can learn anything easily, You can talk to anyone about anything.

From this step you might think it's a little weird to go ahead with this, however i want you to go ahead, because there is a reason behind this which will be illustrated later.

Step 3: - Everyday morning as soon as you wake up, i want you to scream these beliefs to yourself ( you can either scream it out loud or shout it inside your head). You can also write it down on a chart and stick it so that you can see it everyday.

Step 4: - Once you are done screaming,Close our eyes, see yourself as the person already having these beliefs and changes. This is a critical one. When you are imagining yourself as the person, who has already got all the changes and powerful beliefs - observe, the changes you already see in yourself. How different are you looking? What kind of different feelings are you feeling? What kind of sound or music can you hear- when you are imagining yourself as the person who -already has- what you want. Write them down.

For example: - Imagine yourself learning effortlessly from reading a book or watching a video, Imagine yourself giving a presentation which everyone is enjoying.

Step 5: - When you notice the -changes in yourself- while imagining, implement those changes in your life,NOW.

Notice, in what ways have you shifted? .. Notice, by the end of 30th day, how automatically you become the person, that you wanted to be?