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Enhance Wellness by Doing Something Different with NLP
By Adam Eason
Many people would say that it is absolute madness to keep
on doing the same thing, time after time, expecting to get a
different result or for something different to happen.
Alternatively, many people, especially those in the
personal development, NLP and wellness fields of varying
natures, would describe it as intelligent to have a goal and
be wonderfully flexible about how you go about achieving
it.
It is this intelligent idea of enhancing wellness that I want to
highlight today with NLP.
If what you¡¯re doing isn¡¯t working or increasing your
wellness, do something else;
I was working with a corporate client recently and had
been working with one of their senior managers using
NLP and various other techniques. He had wanted
his team to carry out a piece of project work in a certain
way. He said to me that he had told them again and again
(12 times in total), but they still weren¡¯t doing what he
wanted. I pointed out that if he wanted them to change
what they were doing, he might have to change what he
was doing; I suggested that he be more flexible. Together,
We explored some alternative approaches and things
started to change.
If you are fed up with getting the same results to certain
things over and over, with whatever it is that you are
looking to change, use this notion to begin to disrupt your
existing pattern. If you are just following the idea through in
some way, by definition you are perceiving it differently
and doing yourself lots of favours. You'll be increasing your
wellness.
So, firstly, identify an area where you¡¯ve been doing the
same thing over and over hoping to get a different result.
Or an area that you want to increase your wellness. It may
relate to a behaviour, habit, circumstance or situation; just
choose something that you want to change the outcome of.
Then secondly, clarify your goal, that is, clarify what you
want to achieve. Do this by asking yourself what you want
and how you will know when you have got it.
Thirdly, construct or create a list of the different approaches
and behaviours you have tried already in order to achieve
this goal or increased wellness. Or note down what it is that
you are doing currently.
Finally and most simply, put together a nice list of some
alternative behaviours you will use to achieve the goal and
increase wellness. Enlist some help ifyou feel it would
help. When you have compiled a good list (put stuff down
on that list that may well not seem right for you, it is good to
explore avenues that in the past made you feel
uncomfortable from time to time). Then, of course, look at
starting to do the things that are on your list; do them.
What I am wanting to get across here is the idea of being
more bendy.
Your mind and your body really are a single system, so it
follows that physical flexibility can often lead to greater
mental flexibility. There are certain activities which can
greatly increase physical flexibility, including things like
Yoga, Martial arts, Dancing, Swimming and lots of other
general forms of exercise.
Practicing any of these will increase your overall
behavioural and mental flexibility and level of wellness. In
addition, find opportunities to break habitual patterns. For
instance, most mornings when I shave, I do it in a different
way. This requires me to stay aware and vary my patterns.
The more flexibility you have, the more flexibility you can
bring to situations involving others. Often, when people are
seeing me for reducing their weight, I might suggest that
they look at the doing things like swapping their knife and
fork hands around for a week.
So, go ahead and identify a habitual pattern and change it
to enhance your wellness. Especially if it is something you
are not entirely happy about.
Here is a list of some things that you can do to interrupt
your existing patterns and increase your wellness, you can
be as creative as you want with these things.
-Eat a food that you never usually eat
-Go for a walk at an early hour in the morning
-Watch a TV show you would never usually watch
-Take a different journey home from work
-Take a cold shower
-Answer your phone with the opposite hand to usual
-Laugh and smile for no reason
The sooner you start doing this, the more fun you¡¯ll have
with it. Then often, the higher your increase in wellness. So
many people I encounter, know all this stuff or read it and
still don't do these things and wonder why they are not
getting what they want. Do soemthing different today and
you'll be amazed how your wellness rockets.
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