Self help gurus claim to change your life in seven days. Now, I’m not here to tell you what to believe about hypnotism because you are going to decide for yourself. However, one could build some really good skills using hypnotism after all. You might even be feeling a sense of intrigue of trying something new. You could even enjoy hypnotism because, really, there is no reason not to. It is up to you.

Let’s try something. Picture a lemon in your hand. It’s firm. You place it on the cutting board. Now, you cut the lemon into wedges. Since it was firm, there seems to be a lot of juice all over your fingers. Closing your eyes, you take a bite of that lemon, savoring the tartness. Hold it there. What has happened? Your tongue is tingling and you have excess saliva in your mouth. This is a direct response to my suggestion. Your mind cannot tell the difference between what’s real and what’s imagined.

The basic effects of hypnosis is a different state of consciousness. We are aware of the increased suggestibility, but were you aware that there is a tremendous amount of relaxed peacefulness? We’ll get to that in a bit. Stage hypnotists such as Pul McKenna, Michael Bane and Justin James use this suggestibility on the volunteer audience. They turn ordinary citizens into the classic clucking chicken, rock ‘n roll stars and the newly, entertaining strippers.

On the other hand, clinical hypnosis is very useful for helping people through problems. Hypnosis has been used to stop smoking for good and weight loss. Other uses of hypnosis is light anesthesia for surgery and also as a pain reduction technique. This is where the brain truly takes care of the body.

The mechanics of hypnosis appears to be a form of disassociation. In psychology and psychiatry it refers to the state of being separated. This separation is a perceived detachment of the mind from the emotional self or even a separation from the body. It is characterized by a sense of the world as dreamlike, and possibly accompanied by a poor recollection of the events that took place during the disassociation.

Disassociation, where the memory gets split off rom the other parts of the brain, is also involved in cases of amnesia, and in severe cases, multiple personalities. However, under the control of the hypnotist, dissociation is very mild and temporary.

The frontal lobe (executive command center) is temporarily inaccessible from the other parts of the brain such as the limbic system (emotional control) and the parietal lobes (sensory perception). When the brain is relaxed, a hypnotist is allowed to suggest commands that a fully present patient would dismiss. Suggestions or commands are easily assimilated when the brain’s censoring, judging and criticizing functions are disabled.

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NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming and represents the manipulation of feelings and thoughts in relation to language, both spoken and body language. NLP is common amongst self help practitioners such as Paul McKenna in Change Your Life in Seven Days because it is part of the therapy to reprogram negative habits.

Try this. With someone in the same room or where you can watch them inconspicuously, text them this message.

I saw a Scratch on Your car. Who Knows who did it.

Please remember to capitalize the words Scratch, Your and Knows. You want them to stand out a bit. What you’re doing is presenting an embedded command to scratch their nose. Since knows and nose are phonetically ambiguous, the experiment should work just fine. Did they scratch their nose?

How people respond to communication is what NLP is all about. NLP practitioners use observations to determine which communications prompt the desired outcome and which ones don’t. New communication patterns are then developed for the patient. Programs such as stop smoking and losing weight utilize principles of NLP to create new responses to external influences.

When you are communicating, you are broadcasting several messages through body movement (where you hold you hands for instance), eye contact (or lack of), tone of voice, the pace of your speech and even how fast you are breathing. What if all of those parts of your communication told the same story? Unfortunately, most people just use a shotgun approach because they were never taught how to do it effectively.

Like the desperate sales person trying to sell the client but the client has clued in on the anxiety and becomes guarded. The frustrated husband trying desperately not to lose his temper, but the wife reads the tenseness in his hands and begins to pace the house nervously. What about the insecure student who’s teacher reads his shyness as insubordination and manages to alienate him further from learning?

Nobody gets what they want with miscommunication. Many of us have developed stereotypes that are destructive such as taking things personally when someone declines our offer, or at best, unproductive like assuming your request will be declined before you’ve had the chance to ask.

Communicating your intent is what NLP helps out with. NLP is a collection of explanations of what works for you. These are individualized so there is no one set that works for everyone. Studying NLP, you can, however, identify communication rituals that occur between yourself and others. How other people react to your modified communication styles will give you the feedback toward improvement. Can you imagine skillfully communicating to your clients, parents, partner and the kids?

Roxane Wehr believes the longest journey begins where you stand. Make that choice today and find that you can change your life in seven days.