Erase Anxiety With Your Big Toe

This account is from someone I have never met, who has read "Influenncing with Integrity" and has been in internet contact with me.  The account is writtten by a Corporate Manager  about his grand-daughter who is having behavioral problems.

Genie,
I followed your script as closely as I could.

First, we had a session together at the nearby mall where I bought her a book I promised she could have, which she picked out and I approved. On the way back  I told her that I am learning about how the brain works and that I had learned the brain has two parts. When I told her that the right brain helps us be creative with music, art, etc. and helps us be happy, her interest picked up, and she said she was interested in learning how the right brain can be used.

In a quiet, undisturbed room, I led her through the “big toe exercise” you described. Being mindful that at least 90 seconds are needed, I extended the exercise to almost three minutes. At the end, I asked how she felt. She replied “different,” so I asked “How different?” She said she felt calm and relaxed but that her brain was tingling. I asked whether it was the whole brain or just one side, and she relied “the left brain.” I asked about other sensory differences (in 10-year old language as best I could), but she replied that she had feelings but couldn’t describe them. Finally, she said, “I feel like a different person.”

I invited her to practice on herself to strengthen her skill, but she demurred, and I didn’t pursue. Then, I told her the right brain has no fear and that the exercise will also help her whenever she’s feeling frightened or worried about something. She expressed interest in a nonverbal way. Then she snuggled up to me for a while on the sofa where I was sitting.

While my son and she were leaving to drive back to their home, I reminded her that the “big toe exercise” was always available to help her be creative or deal with a worry or scary situation, and she nodded affirmatively. During the interlude between the exercise and the leaving, she seemed to be very calm, but I might be projecting what I wanted to observe.

Genie, thanks ever so much for your kind, generous help!!!

Switch Brains for joy, peace, bliss, connection, and creativity

Who knew that fear only arises in your Left Brain?  That new information has so much application to the current fear level in our world.  By switching over to the use of your Right Brain, just for 90 seconds, all of a sudden your body is full of feelings of peace and even joy.  How do you switch? 

Put your attention in your big toe, and then keep your attention inside your body for 90 seonds, which gives all your old fear time to drain out.  Then solve some problem with a creative solution.  The Right Brain is very good at finding just the right answer to an old problem.

Do you believe me?

Try it, and let me know what happens.  Abot 150 people have reported  to me that it works.  

The Line Between Manipulation/Hypnosis and Influencing

This is in answer to someone who is advertising Hypnosis as a Communication Strategy:

Have you looked up the meaning of manipulation in a dictionary? I will save

you some time. Here it is: "To influence or manage shrewdly or deviously:
To tamper with or falsify for personal gain."
Even if you think you are being "shrewd" with hypnosis, there is still that
element of deviousness and falsifying for personal gain. That is the part
of the use of hypnosis/manipulation/NLP that we all pay dearly for in the
business and personal marketplace. I have had three giant corporate verbal
contracts cancelled because someone higher up than our client found out our
seminars contained NLP. These cancel-ers knew enough about the reputation
of NLP to not want NLP inside their business. Who? Bell Northern
Research, Eastman Kodak and at first, IBM. I finally managed to re-sell 2 of the 3.

IBM was a close call. The executive who finally approved our contract which
lasted 19 years had written a letter to all training departments in IBM
over his signature saying that any seminar with NLP elements was to be
cancelled immediately. In response to this letter, my IBM person made an
appointment for me to meet with this executive, who was  HR Director of
IBM. This sale was definitely a test of my skills. I did not use hypnosis
nor manipulation to change his mind.

If I understand you correctly, you are  saying that hypnosis is simply a protocol for "how you perceive".  This  would be hard to defend or even impossible to defend. Here is the definition of
hypnosis: " artificially induced sleep-like condition in which an individual
is EXTREMELY RESPONSIVE to suggestions made by the hypnotist." Using
hypnosis in communication is manipulation, and that's how NLP acquired its
bad reputation.  People either love NLP or hate it.  No middle ground.  A large number of us are using NLP for positive changes in beliefs and behaviors.  I would like to teach you to be one of these good behavior advocates for these powerful skills.

My position on this is that by being skillful in rapport, outcome setting,
clear communication and using honesty, integrity, and straightforward talk,
you do not need hypnosis. Anyone who falls back on hypnosis is a
manipulator and is harming me and my business because his/her actions
affect me. All those who have signed up for the group, NLP with Integrity,
seem to agree with me. We are all trying to clean up the manipulators'
acts.

We all affect those we communicate with more than we know.
You do not need hypnosis in communication. You really only need the ability
to dovetail. This works every time.


I hope that you  recognize  hypnosis is not a protocol
for perception. It is a protocol for the hypnotist to impose his will on
the receiver. Erickson was doing therapy at his patients request; that is
not manipulation. Hypnosis is great for therapy. I assisted John Grinder
in teaching hypnosis to 60 therapists. It is definitely useful for
therapeutic interactions when all agree on its use. Manipulation is not
helping a child achieve his/her goal. That's a kind deed. Manipulation is
using the NLP strategies without regard for what the other person wants.

To end on a better note and maybe give you a chuckle:

                                            CHANGE THE WORLD

                         I've joined all these net groups who want to change the world

                         None of us want to change ourselves. Inconceivable!

                         We seem to have a chip embedded, before we're born

                         To shape others to our template, before we adjourn.

The best use of the NLP skills is on ourselves.  Then our "template" is worth teaching to someone else. 

What is Anxiety?

Anxiety is a lesser form of fear. Anxiety and fear are both natural processes that occur when you are using your own Left Brain. Your Left Brain is designed to keep you safe so an intregal part of the Left Brain's computations is the ability to feel fear.

What if you are safe? Is anxiety serving you then? Of course not. So as soon as you feel anxious, check to be sure you are safe, then switch your attention to your Right Brain. Your Right Brain can produce joy, bliss, contentment, love, and a few other pleasurable states, but it does not DO fear, nor anxiety.

How do you switch brains? Put your attention inside your body and keep it there for 90 seconds. This gives all your fear time to drain out. Then check to see what your emotional state is. Do not believe me. Check this out for yourself. Over time, you can learn to balance the use of both your brains. At first, you may need to deliberately switch. Try it. It's fun.

You've been carrying your Right Brain around all your life. It's time you learned to use it. Erase anxiety. Anxiety is usually not useful.

Decrease Anxiety, Increase Energy & Enjoy Your Life

Anxiety seems to be on the rise. I read the New York Times each morning and it is full of news that could turn on the Anxiety spigot for any sane person. If I start feeling anxious about the economy, the national debt, the supposedly murder of Caylee (which turned out not to be so), the unidentified bodies found in the marsh on Long Island, the uprisings in North Africa, the greed of Wall Street, Madoff's deceptions, the Texas executions that later DNA analysis found to be incorrect, the tornedos, the hurricanes, gangs in San Jose, I deliberately put my attention in my big toe and keep my attention inside my body, checking out various organs for 90 seconds.

Then I am off to the office to enjoy my day.

i recognize that this behavior sounds sourt of weird, but I cannot fix any of those natural and un-natural catastrophes. I can spend my day feeling great, and do a few small things to improve other people's lives. But first, my own life needs to be working, my energy flowing, without anxiety. Try switching your attention to your big toe. This works.

TEN STRATEGIES FOR USING THE ABILITIES OF THE RIGHT BRAIN

Mind and matter are two parallel streams of development arising from a common ground beyond both. There is an implicate order and there is an infinite sea of energy, and this unfolds to form space, time, and matter.

David Bohm, physicist

1. WHIRLING DERVISH ENTRANCE DANCE
Open the door to the Right Brain in a centuries old physical movement. Do not do this at your office unless your door is locked.

Do you remember as a child how you would spin around and around and then maybe fall to the ground? That is what the whirling dervishes do to open the Right Brain.

The Mystic Gurdjieff used this at his Institute outside Paris to do the same thing. This is the physical way to discover how your right Brain processes information. Music helps if this is available, but not absolutely necessary.

If you have a complex problem, you might want to spend a few minutes whirling around, then lie down and spend another ten minutes noticing what is going on in your mental computations.

Keep a notebook to record any information. Especially the data that does not make logical sense. You ,may find a metaphorical solution to your central complex problem.

2. ASKING YOUR BODY TO FIND THE ANSWER

Once you have formulated the question, then find a quiet spot and ask the question to each part of your body. Keep a pen and paper nearby to jot down the answers. Start with the right foot, then left, then one leg, then the other leg, then one knee, etc. Write down the answers in a column. When completed check the entire list for useful insights. This exercise breaks the hold on your decision making that your Left Brain has acquired through the years.

3. HYPNOGOGIC SOLUTION

Tonight, when you are half awake and half asleep, give a creative task to your Right Brain to solve while you are sleeping. Remind your right Brain to give you the answer by 9 am the next morning and to give you a good nights sleep now.

4. TRY THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH
As long as the unvarnished truth is not endangering anyone else, use it.

5. FIRST LOVE ENERGY
If you are feeling slightly under the weather, just say out loud, “think about my First Love” then take a moment to do so. If you have any negative memories around this thought, edit them out. Only positive memories are allowed. Notice the chemical change in your body as positive thoughts take over

6. TELL A SECRET

Tell someone you trust a secret that you have been reluctant for anyone else to know. Disclosure of a secret raises the energy level of trust between you and you will feel your own energetic response as the energy you have been using to hide this is released. How about a fear you once had, but no longer have? Do not tell a secret that will harm you or anyone if it is known. Here is a safe example of an old fear that has lots of psychological implications. For example, “When we studied Pompeii in school, I used to dream about volcanic eruptions. There would be hot lava creeping up to my feet. What do you think about this?”

7. CREATE A PLEASURE DAY FOR SOMEONE YOU LOVE
Tell the other in advance that you want to create a perfect day for them. Ask for their input as to what they want on this day? Get plenty of details then you embellish these.
Notice how you feel as you show someone how much you care. See that you enjoy the day as well.

8. HEART INFORMATION

When you have to make a decision during your day, check out the information from your heart before voicing the decision. Heart information is often different than Left Brain logical data. Use both for balancing the Left and Right Brains.

9. USE DRAWINGS TO SET YOUR OUTCOME EACH MORNING

The Right Brain loves images. Images trigger the Right Brain. What is interesting about how the brain works is that if it knows what you want, it will search all available data to code what will help you gain your goal. So if you give the Right Brain an image of what you want, the Right Brain’s natural processing will become your best assistant. Buy a set of pastels and a drawing tablet. Keep them in a drawer so no one asks questions. Each morning draw an image that signifies to you what you hope to accomplish that day. You will be amazed at the results.

10. TEACH ONE OF THESE TO SOMEONE ELSE

When you teach a mental strategy to someone else, you learn a lot. Notice how your comprehension and understanding of a concept deepens as you transfer it . Enjoy your teaching role.

Right Brain Breakthrough for Balance

To my mind, this information should change the world overnight, but few believe this. However, the potential is certainly there. Hypnosis, meditation, guided imagery, creative problem solving, abrupt emotional shifts, and even, hands on healing are all simply skills or attributes of your very own Right Brain.

How do you tap into this magical instrument? Put your attention in your big toe! This gets your awareness into your body which means you are present in the moment. Then you can move your attention to different parts of your body for 90 seconds and all tension, anxiety, fear will have evaporated, leaving you calm and peaceful. Or maybe you will feel curious (if you must understand the shift) because you cannot believe the powerful effect of simply switching brains.

There is no fear in the Right Brain. The Left Brain is designed to keep you safe so is full of fear. Being in the NOW is the key to using the Right Brain. The simplest and easiest to execute move is focusing on your body; however, simply looking at the world around you also brings you to the present. Most people seem to find the big toe helpful though some use their thumb.

Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist, states that 91% are Left Brain dominate, so there is a large audience for this information.

I have used this to stop a child from pulling out her hair (a 12 inch circle of bald spot on the top of her head showed how good she was at this.) Fear and tension were the causes of the hair pulling. I have taught this to more than 100 people and they all say it works, but they forget to use it. One smoker has pretty much stopped by switching brains, though she says smoking no longer interests her, she still lights up now and then. She says she is an obsessive type, and that explains her inability to totally stop.

My theory on smoking is that most people smoke to stop negative feelings. Negative feelings are usually based on fear, so by removing the fear, the whole process could be stopped. I may be right and I may be wrong. The jury is still out.

Conflicts and wars come from fear, so if everyone used their Right Brain as much as their Left, we could cut back on these. Maybe?

I have taught hypno-therapy, gestalt psychology, hands-on-healing, NLP, meditation, and it was a shock for me to discover that each one was dependent on the ability to switch brains from the Linear Left Brain computation to the Collage-based Right Brain computation. Anyone can do it.

The experience of Jill Taylor when she had her Left Brain stroke is the basis of this information. The implications are still unfolding. Thanks for listening. Regards, Genie

Genie Z. Laborde, Ph.D.
www.influence-integrity.com
650-322-2799