Showing posts with label Richard Bolstad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Bolstad. Show all posts

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Human Warmth, Where to Find?






One of the most popular topics in my blog is ‘human warmth’ after anorexia(!). The thin girls would never be sick with anorexia, if they experienced warmth, i.e. kindness, fondness, support and understanding in their earlier years with parents.

Where to find human warmth if nobody treats you with gentleness, love and tenderness you need? What if instead of kindness you face false cold smiles and fake sympathy?




You may create and develop the quality of kindness and sympathy by yourself, in the world of competition, money and career chase, demands and etc.


Method

Just sit alone in the place where nobody would disturb you. If you are ready to be the single compassionate and warm person in your environments without expectations to get the same kindness in return, we will start with you.

Kindness, gentleness and warmth are the most normal qualities of our human nature. When you possess and give them to others, then some sweet substance will appear in your body and skin.


1. The process of human warmth creation begins with your own conscious decision ‘to be a hearted, amiable and warm man/woman’. Just say it out loud. The moment you do it, the substance will appear, by marvels!

2. Set the intent to be always human, kind, warm and loving, by just saying it out loud: “I intend to be always kind, (the whole list)… Find as many words in all languages you speak, as you can. Pronounce them all.

You will be using the phrase:
“I express warmth, kindness, love, compassion … etc”

in the processes below.

Why?

Gene Expression & Loving Smile

By using this speech pattern “I express…” with genuine emotion, we start the process of expressing those substances, which we personally mean in blood, saliva, brain and body tissues. Apparently there begins a process similar to gene expression.

Gene expression is the process by which information from a gene  is used in the synthesis of a functional gene product. These products are often proteins, but in non-protein coding genes such asribosomal RNA (rRNA), transfer RNA (tRNA) or small nuclear RNA (snRNA) genes, the product is a functional RNA. The process of gene expression is used by all known life - eukaryotes  - to generate the macromolecular machinery for life.


Gene expression



Visualisation of large-scale gene expression studies, such as those carried out using DNA chip systems, to form a clustered gene expression network. Each dot represents a gene, and links between dots occur where there is a certain level of correlation between their expression patterns. Genes with very similar expression profiles link to many other dots and form clusters shown in the same colour. The clusters are 3-dimensional with larger dots existing in the foreground space and smaller ones further away.



Learning and Memory:
Controlled Gene Expression in the Nervous System

When you feel caring or love for someone or something, you smile and this smile is flowing down through your body. …“Taoist sages say that when you smile, your organs release a honey-like secretion which nourishes the whole body.” (Chia, 1985, p 33). Modern research backs up the powerful effects of smiling and laughing, as described by Norman Cousins in his account of curing illness by their use (Cousins, 1989). Imagining the smile flowing down through your body is in itself likely to promote relaxation and healing.

Remembering a time when you felt caring has a particularly powerful healing effect. Dr David C. McClelland and Carol Kirshnit of Boston University has published a study which clearly explains much of the effect of the Inner Smile (McClelland and Kirshnit, 1988, p 31-52). In this research, subjects are shown a variety of movies, and their level of Immunoglobulin A (the first line of defence against viruses and other pathogens) is monitored before and after. Gardening films and political propaganda have no effect, but a film of Mother Teresa caring for people in Calcutta caused a sharp rise in levels of the immune chemical. Interestingly, many of the subjects in this study, when questioned after, said that they did not approve of Mother Teresa and doubted the genuineness of her work. But their bodies didn’t mind. Their immunity level rose anyway. The fact that they had held the visual images of caring in their mind was more important than the theories they considered about it. In the same way, you don’t need to believe in the Inner Smile for it to work” (In Bolstad, 2001, pp 44-45).


Love and Kindness Creation Process

Firstly, we shall deal with your past.

Go and find your albums or just photographs of you as a child, with all your friends and people, who are still dear to you now. Express and send kindness, understanding, love or whatever you find as good to each person and  you - very young and inexperienced.



It is not pity you are sending, just love and understanding. You can do it with words or gestures, caressing people and yourself on the pictures with your hands. This process might raise the storm of emotions, tears, crying… but it is good. Even if some of your beloved people are no longer alive, express your warmth and gratitude for them; they are part of your past.

In case you have no pictures of people you want to thank or warm up, just write their names on paper. Talk to them, touching their written names with love. The effect is as strong as with photos. When you caress them even in the air with your hands, your entire body is involved. You blood, skin and nerve cells will be filling with sweet substance of wellness and health.

No alcohol will be good for this process, as you understand.  Just  stay sober and fresh. Cry as much as it needs.


Secondly, we shall deal with your present life.

1. You can use photos, even in your computer. Say good and warm words of fondness, support, sincere compliments to each person you like and value. They need it!

2. If you do not have their pictures, just write down their names and talk to each of them, caressing the written lines. It may happen so, that you did not dare to utter good and loving words in their presence. You can do it now! Somehow, your warmth will be delivered to them through loving you universe.

You may also imagine them being nearby or in front of you.  Caress the air – their visible or absolutely transparent image – with gentle words or loving movements. This very moment they would feel loved, happy, protected…no matter how far they are from you. It is the mystery, but fact.

It may turn out, that you have not a soul you would like to express your kindness or love. Just think of beaten, humiliated and starving kids somewhere in the world, who need to be loved, calmed, defended and caressed right now. You will immediately know what to do!


Thirdly, we shall deal with your future.

If you are not in love currently, think about qualities of a person you will meet or find in the nearest future. Express all love, gentleness and warmth to them the way you are already capable to do now. You will recognize that person by their qualities, not appearance.



In other words, you are loved and valued when you are very human…

This is it!

There are also such  incredible secrets, that you will be living and flying like me, without drugs and alcohol…gaining success in every area of life…

Life is fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Natalia Levis-Fox,
Tel.: +7 928 266 93 13
Private practice, on-line consultations
License No 314265119000560

References

  1. Bolstad, R and Hamblett, M. Pro-fusion: Creating A Life Of Abundance  With Neuro Linguistic Programming And Energy Work. Transformations International. Christchurch, New Zealand. 2002.
  2. Chia, M. Taoist Ways To Transform Stress Into Vitality, Healing Tao Books, Huntington, New York, 1985.
  3. Cousins, N. Head First: The Biology Of Hope, Dutton, New York, 1989.
  4. McClelland, D. C. and Kirshnit, C. “The Effect Of Motivational Arousal Through Films On Immunoglobulin A” in Psychology and Health, 2, 1988, p 31-52.


Wednesday, August 6, 2014

NLP: How to Read People (Practice)







Continued from NLP: How to Read People (Part 2)

Yesterday we learned with you how brain processes our experience. Today we shall learn how our experience manifests itself through our eyes movement. When we understand the principle, we can read people. This skill is very good in questioning (ex. in police) or in defining person’s leading modality
  1. Visual (really seen or imaged)
  2. Auditory (really heard or created, lies)
  3. Kinesthetic  (feelings, sensations or actions)
  4. Auditory  digital (inner self-talk)

 of accessing to past experience or decision-making.

Suppose the person claims that he saw some event, i.e. witnessed it, with his own eyes. Knowing how our eyes movements elicit the origin of information in brain, we can tell, if the person is telling the truth or just heard the sounds or re-tells the information from somebody else’s vision and story.

You might ask, how reliable is this method of reading people within seconds? The thing is that when we remember any experience, our eyes change their position. Each position lightens up the corresponding cortex area, where the events, feelings, sensations, sounds, words thoughts, ideas and meanings are processed (Day, 1964).

The standard NLP diagram of accessing cues (below) shows eyes positions for different types of experience in a “normally organised” right handed person.



The visual thinking draws the eyes up.



Up left – the person recalls what they saw with their own eyes.



Up right – the person creates images
(of ideal state of affairs, the way they love it)

The auditory thinking draws the eyes to the sides


To the left- the person remembers what they heard with their own ears



To the right – the person invents or creates auditory information



In case the eyes move quickly left-right (we say that eyes run)
- it is the typical case of telling lies

Note that auditory digital is placed down on the left side (suggesting that all the accessing cues on that side may correspond to the dominant hemisphere, where verbal abilities are known to be processed). In left handed subjects, this eye pattern is reversed about 50% of the time.

The kinesthetic thinking draws the eyes down to the right.



The person checks what they felt in this or that situation,
or what feelings and sensations they would experience in future.

The auditory digital (inner talk) thinking draws the eyes down to the left



The person can think about something at this moment or check what they had thought /made decision about the matter in the past

As you understand, this type of reading people has nothing in common with their ‘mind reading’, i.e. the contents of their thoughts or experience. The harm of mind reading and its origin you can discover in 2 articles from this blog at


Human eyes move very quickly. So you need some practice to master the skill.

DO NOT TRY to track your own eyes movements to correspond to the general NLP pattern, common to right-handed people. You may have your own eyes movements style.

In some cases our wise nature changes the typical patterns. For instance, instead of position of auditory recall


auditory recall

your nature may insert a visual recall.


visual recall

By doing so, your wonderful nature protects you from internally hearing/perceiving information from people you hate or those, who had harmed you!

Some highly intelligent people have quite different eyes movement patterns. So you will not read them, using standard cues,




as they have direct and immediate access to information. 
They just look straight up, forward or down.

The rapid succession of movements forms people’s thinking & decision-making strategies, by which professionals (investigators, consultants, therapists, doctors, salesmen, etc) can elicit reliable information about their interlocutors.



How to master the skill of reading people by their eyes movements?

You can ‘read’ people on TV, especially interviews.

For instance, the President of Russian Federation




Vladimir Putin,

 shows the following mental strategy in his interviews before answering questions:








1. He recalls information he had seen with his own eyes (and never uses data he had heard from somebody else)

2. He checks kinesthetically, how it feels personally

3. He checks his own thoughts and opinions about matters under discussion

4. He gives the answer.

The whole process takes 1-2 seconds.

Of course, there are plenty other aspects of human communication which are left hidden from you.

But you can also master NLP with professionals in your country, city or any district. It is FUN!

If you trust my skills and competence, but live in another country, you may have home study course in NLP with me.

Learn new things. They make your life rich!


Natalia Levis-Fox,
NLP Practitioner (trained and certified by outstanding masters)
Tel.: +7 928 266 93 13
Private practice, on-line consultations
License No 314265119000560


References

  1. Adler, R. “Crowded Minds” in New Scientist, Vol. 164, No. 2217, p 26-31, December 18, 1999.
  2. Bandler, R. Using Your Brain For A Change Real People Press, Moab, Utah, 1985
  3. Bolstad, R. and Hamblett, M. “Visual Digital: Modality of the Future?” in NLP World, Vol 6, No. 1, March 1999
  4. Bolstad, R. “Putting The “Neuro” Back Into NLP” Christchurch, NZ. 2003.
  5. Day, M. “An Eye Movement Phenomenon Relating to Attention, Thoughts, and Anxiety” in Perceptual Motor Skills, 1964
  6. Dilts, R. Roots Of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Meta Publications, Cupertino, California, 1983
  7. Dilts, R., Grinder, J., Bandler, R. and DeLozier, J. Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Volume 1 The Study of the Structure of Subjective Experience, Meta Publications, Cupertino, California, 1980.
  8. Hoffman, D.D. Visual Intelligence W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1998
  9. James, W. The Principles Of Psychology (Volume 1 and 2), Dover, New York, 1950.




Monday, August 4, 2014

NLP: How to Read People (Part 2)






Continued from NLP: How to Read People


In order to read people and understand what they ‘do’ within them about different types of experience, we must know how our brains ‘work’. For this reason, we shall use Dr Richard Bolstad’s brilliant article “Putting The “Neuro” Back Into NLP” (Bolstad, 2003).

Everything we experience of the world comes to us through the neurological channels of our sensory systems. The greatest events and the most tender interpersonal moments are "experienced" (transformed into internal experiences) as images (visual), sounds (auditory), body sensations (kinesthetic), tastes (gustatory), smells (olfactory) and learned symbols such as these words (digital). Those experiences, furthermore, can be re-membered (put together again) by use of the same sensory information.

Think of a fresh lemon.  Imagine one in front of you now, and feel what it feels like as you pick it up.  Take a knife and cut a slice off the lemon, and hear the slight sound as the juice squirts out.  Smell the lemon as you lift the slice to your mouth and take a bite of the slice.  Taste the sharp taste of the fruit.




If you actually imagined doing that, you mouth is now salivating.  Why? Because your brain followed your instructions and thought about, saw, heard, felt, smelled and tasted the lemon.  By recalling sensory information, you recreated the entire experience of the lemon, so that your body responded to the lemon you created. Your brain treated the imaginary lemon as if it was real, and prepared saliva to digest it. Seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting are the natural “languages” of your brain. Each of them has a specialised area of the brain which processes that sense. Another NLP term for these senses is "Modalities". When you use these modalities, you access the same neurological circuits that you use to experience a real lemon. As a result, your brain treats what you’re thinking about as “real”.

Perception is a complex process by which we interact with the information delivered from our senses. There are areas of the neural cortex (outer brain) which specialise in information from each of the senses (or modalities as olfactory, gustatory, somatosensory, auditory and visual). However there is no direct connection between the sense organ (the retina of the eyes, for example) and the specialised brain area which handles that sense. The cortex is the outer area of the brain, and each sense has an area of cortex specialised for it.

What we see is affected by our emotions, and it also shapes those emotions. Depression, anxiety, confusion, and anger are all related to certain types of perceptual distortion. So are joy, excitement, understanding and love. For example, the person who is depressed often actually takes their visual memories of the day's experiences and darkens them, creating a gloomy world.

Take a memory of a recent experience you enjoyed, and imagine seeing it dull and grey. Usually, this doesn't feel as good, so make sure you change it back to colour afterwards.

On the contrary, if there was no emotionally coloured experience during the day or some period, you would remember nothing. We can not live without bright events and people we love. Otherwise, we would imagine continuation of stories the way it would satisfy us. Or, remember events with intensively negative connotation.

In the absence of pleasant and bright positive experience, for example, the person with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder recreates vivid and terrifying flashbacks of hurtful events to be frightened or suffer (to get intensive experience).

Some talented people construct or create bright events in their imagination to substitute the dullness and boredom of their everyday existence. Our brain does not make difference between actually seen or imagined events and people.

That is why sometimes it is not easy to distinguish reality from their created experience without knowing brain’s mechanisms functioning.


Sensory Accessing and Representational Cues

As a person goes through their daily activities, information is processed in all the sensory modalities, continuously. However, the person's conscious attention tends to be on one modality at a time. It is clear that some people have a strong preference for "thinking" (to use the term generically) in one sensory modality or another.

As early as 1890, the founder of Psychology, William James defined four key types of "imagination" based on this fact. He says “In some individuals the habitual “thought stuff”, if one may so call it, is visual; in others it is auditory, articulatory [to use an NLP term, auditory digital], or motor [kinesthetic, in NLP terms]; in most, perhaps, it is evenly mixed. The auditory type... appears to be rarer than the visual.

Person’s of this type imagine what they think of in the language of sound. In order to remember a lesson they impress upon their mind, not the look of the page, but the sound of the words....

The motor type remains -perhaps the most interesting of all, and certainly the one of which least is known. Persons who belong to this type make use, in memory, reasoning, and all their intellectual operations, of images derived from movement.... There are persons who remember a drawing better when they have followed its outlines with their finger.” (James, 1950, Volume 2, p58-61).

Research identifying the neurological bases for these different types of “thought” began to emerge in the mid twentieth century. Much of it was based on the discovery that damage to specific areas of the brain caused specific sensory problems.

By the time NLP emerged in the 1960s, then, researchers already understood that each sensory system had a specialised brain area, and that people had preferences for using particular sensory systems. In their original 1980 presentation of NLP, Dilts, Grinder, Bandler and DeLozier (1980, p 17) point out that all human experience can be coded as a combination of

internal and external vision (V),
audition (A),
kinesthesis (K)and
olfaction/gestation (O/G).

Kinesthetic external is referred to as tactile (somatosensory touch sensations) and kinesthetic internal as visceral (emotional and prioceptive).

The developers of NLP noticed that we also process information in words and that words too have a specific brain system specialised to process them, as if they were a sensory system.

They described this verbal type of information as “auditory digital”, distinguishing it from the auditory input we get, for example, in listening to music or to the sound of the wind.

In thinking in words (talking to ourselves) we pay attention specifically to the “meaning” coded into each specific word, rather than to the music of our voice.

Robert Dilts (1983, section 3, p 1-29) showed that different brain wave (EEG) patterns were associated with visual, auditory, tactile and visceral thought. The developers of NLP claimed to have identified a number of more easily observed cues which let us know which sensory system a person is using (or "accessing") at any given time.

Amongst these cues are a series of largely unconscious eye movements which people exhibit while thinking (1980, p 81). These "eye movement accessing cues" have become the most widely discussed of all the NLP discoveries. Outside of NLP, evidence that eye movements were correlated with the use of different areas of the brain emerged in the 1960s (M. Day, 1964).

In the absence of fresh impressions, positive & pleasant experience, bright meaningful events and people, persons get stuck in their preferable channels of perception and processing information, suffer and experience ‘problems’ or get encouraging information from outside sources. For instance,

Auditory digital – talk to themselves or think, think and think
Visual – see or construct images: events, people, coloring experience
Auditory – talk to other people/ ‘hear voices’ or listen music, radio, TV, etc
Kinesthetic – get self-stimulating experience watching erotic films (as simulators), race in the streets, fight, etc.

To be continued…

Natalia Levis-Fox,
NLP Practitioner
Tel.: +7 928 266 93 13
Private practice, on-line consultations
License No 314265119000560

References
  1. Adler, R. “Crowded Minds” in New Scientist, Vol. 164, No. 2217, p 26-31, December 18, 1999.
  2. Bandler, R. Using Your Brain For A Change Real People Press, Moab, Utah, 1985
  3. Bolstad, R. and Hamblett, M. “Visual Digital: Modality of the Future?” in NLP World, Vol 6, No. 1, March 1999
  4. Bolstad, R. “Putting The “Neuro” Back Into NLP” Christchurch, NZ. 2003.
  5. Day, M. “An Eye Movement Phenomenon Relating to Attention, Thoughts, and Anxiety” in Perceptual Motor Skills, 1964
  6. Dilts, R. Roots Of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Meta Publications, Cupertino, California, 1983
  7. Dilts, R., Grinder, J., Bandler, R. and DeLozier, J. Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Volume 1 The Study of the Structure of Subjective Experience, Meta Publications, Cupertino, California, 1980.
  8. Hoffman, D.D. Visual Intelligence W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1998
  9. James, W. The Principles Of Psychology (Volume 1 and 2), Dover, New York, 1950.


Sunday, November 17, 2013

The Research: Prayer and Distance Healing




Professor Randolph Byrd at the University of California studied 393 patients in a coronary care unit (a unit for people with heart conditions, at San Fransisco General Hospital). 

Without their knowledge, and without the knowledge of any of the staff, these patients were randomly assigned by a computer to two groups.  The names of one group were then given to people spread across the United States, whose instructions were to "pray for" this person. 

Each patient in that half had 5-7 people praying for them each day.  Those "praying" had no special instructions on what praying meant.

The results were astounding.  The prayed for patients were five times less likely to need antibiotics; three times less likely to develop fluid in the lungs.  None of those prayed for died or required emergency intubation (placing a tube down the throat to maintain breathing, which 12 of the other group needed).

Those who have faith have special texts prescribed by their religion. They pray knowingly for themselves and others. So, the words of prays go the source whre all wishes are realized.

Non-believers can also create their own texts to wish their beloved people health, fast recovering, prosperity, and whatever they want.  

If you have no those you love (it happens sometimes), you may wish health, prosperity and love to the whole world:

“I wish love, health and prosperity to the world,”
you might say every morning and night before going to sleep.

By doing this you become healthier, lovelier and more prosperous yourself, together with the world, including.




Our earth




Nature


Wild animals










Kids


With each wish, fresh energy is circulating in your entire being…

Natalia Levis-Fox

References:

  1. Bolstad, R., Hamblet, M.,  Pro-fusion: Creating A Life Of Abundance With Neuro Linguistic Programming And Energy Work. Christchurch, NZ, 2001.
  2. Dossey, L.,  Rediscovering the Soul,  Bantam,  New York, 1989.