The NLP Center of NY has just started an online training site. There are some nice free previews you can check out. I recommend it highly! You can check it out here.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
'Now just memorize that list...'
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I can still remember my french teacher asking us to memorize our vocabulary every day. I can remember what she looked like, and exactly what her voice sounded like. Unfortunately I can't remember the vocabulary. I can also remember just how frustrated I was that I had no idea 'how' to memorize the vocabulary. I'd usually get about 70% out of good luck, but I was clueless about how to intentionally get that number any higher. There are many aspects to learning and memorization. One factor is when you study something and when you do subsequent review sessions. Here's a fascinating article about some of the research that's been done over the years on timed reviews and some software that's been developed to help this process called Supermemo.
Enjoy!
Article Link-Supermemo/Wazniak
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Awareness Test
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This is a fascinating awareness test that someone pointed out to me. Love to hear how people do with it. (It's a good one during the NBA playoffs!)
Monday, April 28, 2008
Exploring Identity
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Here is an interesting article from Psychology Today about Identity and how someone can explore and grow into a new identity over time.
Enjoy!
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Finding Center
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There are many ways to center oneself. In this piece I’ll mention several ways to center your self. First and foremost, I hope you can begin to notice the many places where you already do this in your life. Also, perhaps you can find some new things to explore. As they say, all roads lead to Rome and certainly many roads lead back to one's center.
There are many practices that explore different methods of centering. Aikido, yoga, mediation, dance, self-hypnosis and tai chi are just a few modalities that explore this topic in depth and with their own subtleties.
For myself, being centered means being in a calm and alert state of mind and body where I’m able to respond well to whatever comes up in my life at the moment. My breathing is calm and my posture, whether seated or standing is fairly straight. I’m not leaning forward or backward or to either side.
At first glance, centering may not seem particularly interesting or useful. In time I’ve come to find it an incredibly useful resource state from which to respond to life and various challenges that may arise from time to time.
Here are a few things to try out if you’re new to the idea of centering or meditation. Take a moment to center your posture as I mentioned above. Allow your spine to be upright and relaxed as opposed to stiff. Notice your breathing and allow yourself to breath fully in and out in a relaxed way. I recommend keeping your eyes open and lightly focused in front of you. Take a moment to notice what’s in front of you and in your peripheral vision.
Notice if you’re leaning forward, back or to one side and bring yourself back to the middle. I like to imagine grass and how it’s able to sway in the wind and then find it’s way back to a nice resting place. Notice if you’re standing on your heals or the balls of your feet. Take a moment to try out both of these and then find a place in the middle.
If you notice yourself thinking about anything in particular, simply watch the thought as opposed to getting caught up in the particular thought itself. Is your thinking fast, slow, calm or turbulent. Take a moment to come back to the sensations in your body and in your breath.
If this is all new to you, you may want to take 5 or so minutes a day to play with this until you begin to get used to the process of slowing down and becoming centered. In other posts I’ll discuss many ways you can explore this in the context of change work. Also, feel free to contact me if you’d like other suggestion about how to play with this or other resources for exploring this.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Charlie Badenhop-Seishindo
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Whenever I visit Japan I have the privilege of visiting with my good friend Charlie Badenhop. Charlie has a background in NLP, Hypnosis and years of studying and being an instructor of Aikido. Charlie is one of the most skilled change work practitioners I know. His work, Seishindo is a wonderful combination and expansion of these various modalities. What I've observed in seeing Charlie work with individuals and working with me is that he interacts with the person both verbally with great skill and by responding to and working with the person's physical presence. One thing that I've taken from my experience of Charlie's work is the belief that centering the body and the thinking mind has a tremendous capacity to heal the overall system and bring new solutions and insights to whatever challenges a person is facing.
I highly recommend visiting Charlie's site http://seishindo.org/ which is also in my link list. The site has pages of wonderful material and many practices that you can try out for yourself. Charlie also has a great newsletter where he shares insights and exercises on a regular basis.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Stephen Gilligan
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This is a video of Stephen Gilligan being interviewed from YouTube. Steve's work is incredibly rich. I highly recommend going to a training with him if you have the opportunity. Although this video is a bit of a promotion, it's a treat to get to see him. Steve has developed a way of working with people that moves well beyond his background in NLP and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy.
