"And maybe the next time I'm driving down the street" (and remember, every time I used a pronoun, I pointed to the opposite person!) "and I see a red light, it means to STOP thinking negatively. And when I see a green light, it means to GO FOR IT, enjoy life, embrace the journey?"
He was swaying, blinking, doing everything but falling face-down into his soup bowl. I mean he was GONE, and didn't even realize it.
Now,
I don't and never did know the precise issues that had deviled "Mark."
But I do know that if you have a positive attitude and can take a long
view, that it is easiest to devise generative solutions.
Anyway, I
future tested the implanted ideas (got him to visualize these changes in
his future), and then closed the trance, tested to be sure he was
completely "back" and thanked him deeply for the advice (!).
And drove home, wondering what the hell I thought I'd been doing.
Well"the next day I got a call from his wife. "Steve!" she shrieked. "What in the world did you do?"
"Ummm"what's wrong?" I held my breath, anticipating disaster. Oh, God"
"Wrong?" she said. "Nothing! Mark came home last night more filled with energy and enthusiasm than I've seen in a year! He grabbed me, threw me on the bed and made love to me like a madman!" She went on, raving about how he had changed"like magic.
And a month later she said the change had held. That he was still optimistic, and horny as a teenager.
Well,
DAMN. I thought about this, and realized that I was more than good at
this. I was friggin' wizard. And that scared me. To be honest, I
haven't been the most responsible, caring person my whole life. And the
power to do what I had done frightened me, because I saw the potential
for abuse. This is, again, NOT a condemnation of NLP. It is only a
comment about my own fear of myself. Period.
So"I stepped away from Neuro Linguistic Programming, thinking that I had to grow up a bit. Center myself more. And would return to it later.
Which, in time, I have.
Namaste,
Steve
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