UNLOCK The Secret Power Of Your Mind with Dr. Richard Bandler
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112 min
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2 min
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Key Takeaways
- ✓Phobia Cure Technique: Shrink the phobic image to postage stamp size, add a colored border, then blink it black and white rapidly. This neurological pattern interrupt changes how memories are stored by moving them between hemispheres, eliminating the emotional charge in seconds rather than years of therapy.
- ✓Visual Submodalities for Memory Control: Traumatic memories appear larger than life in visual field. By shrinking them down, adding borders, and changing their location, you neurologically alter the memory pathway. The size and position of internal images directly determines emotional intensity and can be consciously manipulated.
- ✓Unconscious State Control: Feelings spin or tumble in specific directions through the body's entemic nervous system. Determination spins forward, anxiety backward. To change emotional states, consciously reverse the spin direction by slowing the feeling, stopping it, then spinning it the opposite way with increasing intensity.
- ✓Refresh Button Installation: Create a mental reset by entering deep relaxation, identifying the most relaxed body part, then circling it with conscious attention until relaxation spreads throughout. Anchor this state to a physical touch point, creating an on-demand refresh mechanism for mental clarity and energy.
- ✓Desire Amplification Method: Place desired outcome picture in same mental location as past irresistible goals. Make it life-size or bigger, wet lips to activate motor cortex desire response. The lips occupy one-third of motor cortex, so this physiological action neurologically triggers wanting and increases motivation.
What It Covers
Dr. Richard Bandler, co-founder of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, demonstrates how to control thoughts and feelings through neurological techniques. He covers phobia elimination, state management, hypnosis, and practical methods for changing beliefs by manipulating internal representations and physiological states.
Key Questions Answered
- •Phobia Cure Technique: Shrink the phobic image to postage stamp size, add a colored border, then blink it black and white rapidly. This neurological pattern interrupt changes how memories are stored by moving them between hemispheres, eliminating the emotional charge in seconds rather than years of therapy.
- •Visual Submodalities for Memory Control: Traumatic memories appear larger than life in visual field. By shrinking them down, adding borders, and changing their location, you neurologically alter the memory pathway. The size and position of internal images directly determines emotional intensity and can be consciously manipulated.
- •Unconscious State Control: Feelings spin or tumble in specific directions through the body's entemic nervous system. Determination spins forward, anxiety backward. To change emotional states, consciously reverse the spin direction by slowing the feeling, stopping it, then spinning it the opposite way with increasing intensity.
- •Refresh Button Installation: Create a mental reset by entering deep relaxation, identifying the most relaxed body part, then circling it with conscious attention until relaxation spreads throughout. Anchor this state to a physical touch point, creating an on-demand refresh mechanism for mental clarity and energy.
- •Desire Amplification Method: Place desired outcome picture in same mental location as past irresistible goals. Make it life-size or bigger, wet lips to activate motor cortex desire response. The lips occupy one-third of motor cortex, so this physiological action neurologically triggers wanting and increases motivation.
Notable Moment
Bandler worked with a schizophrenic patient who hallucinated TV characters following him. Instead of medication, Bandler taught him to hallucinate a pencil from a Bugs Bunny cartoon and erase the unwanted hallucinations. The patient gained control over his visual experiences by directing them purposefully rather than being victimized.
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