One of the most consistent things I have discovered with massively successful people is the quality of their internal dialogue, especially in sports but also in other areas of life:  business, personal, social, financial, emotional, intellectual, physical, mental and spiritual.

I have a cartoon in my office that depicts a very small football player getting ready to block a very large football player, kind of like the David vs. Goliath scenario.  Above the head of the very small football player is a balloon indicating his thoughts.  In the balloon are written the words, “I think I can!”  “I think I can!”  And I love it!  If David never thought he could defeat Goliath I am confident that he wouldn’t have! 

Your internal dialogue is extremely important.  In fact it is more important than you will ever fully realize.  State what you want, affirm it and intend it by using your finest voice qualities while feeling it deep in your heart!

Years ago I read and heard the saying, “Where two or more minds are gathered, there I shall appear.” I know and maybe you know about the practice of “Master-minding” and perhaps, the power of what is called: The I AM CONCEPT.  These both can work miracles when two or more like-minds gather together and share their thoughts.  (In sports this is what’s called “Teamwork” and truly successful coaches are constantly working at creating this between their team members all of the time).  What has never been explained to me, and I eventually discovered on my own, was that you can create a mastermind with yourself! 

Has it ever dawned on you that you have both a conscious and a subconscious mind?  If my math is correct, I do believe that’s one mind (the conscious) and one (the unconscious), which equals two!  Tah-Dah!  Instant Mastermind.  So what I’m talking about here is the most powerful Mastermind there is and that is you connecting consciously and subconsciously with yourself!  What could be better than that?  You now have an incredible Mastermind going on inside of you!  All you have to do is connect your conscious thoughts with your unconscious thoughts (feelings) and you tap into your truly unlimited Super conscious Mind!

Within team sports, imagine that you have total connection with your super conscious mind and your teammates have that total connection with their super conscious minds.  Now imagine that you tune into each other’s super conscious minds all at the same time!  You have everyone totally in alignment with each other’s minds.  How powerful is that?  Can anyone do it?  Absolutely!  Does it take effort, practice, commitment and desire to do so?  Yes!

Start today!  And if you need help remember that you are not in this alone.  Check out my MP3 download Mental Master Mind and see what you think.  And know that I also love helping teams and individuals with sports of any kind. 

Also consider all of my MP3 downloads on my website or schedule your own private live session to have something customized just for you and/or your team!!  If you have any questions or would like some personal guidance or coaching, feel free to give me a call at 303-979-5498  or visit my website at www.AskAHyp.com.  You’ll be glad you did!

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Having had the pleasure of working with people from darn near every sport you can imagine, and then some, and with people as young as 5 years old, I find it amazingly interesting that everyone who has done excellent has thought in the same way!  In fact Napoleon Hill wrote a book years ago entitled “Think and Grow Rich” in which he notes that after interviewing hundreds of very successful people from around the world, the one thing they all had in common is that they all had a similar way of thinking.  They all thought in the same way!  This is definitely true in sports.  In his classic book, author Hill breaks down their thinking into 13 specific pieces or parts.

The first thing Napoleon Hill mentions is “Positive Mental Attitude”.  I definitely agree!  If you don’t think and believe you will be successful, then who are you kidding?  In his book “Think and Grow Rich” Hill writes, “What the mind of man can conceive and believe he can achieve.”  (And it just doesn’t pertain to man)

Your beliefs come only from your thoughts.  This morning I spoke to a parent who is bringing in their 10 year old.  The 10 year old was hurt by a baseball and the 10 year old has not been the same since.  What this 10 year old most likely is thinking is that the next time they play ball, the ball will most likely hurt them again.  That is an imprint on their memory banks that can last a lifetime!  There are a number of excellent approaches that can be helpful and can give this young person permanent resolution for a lifetime.

One option is to guide this person into a relaxed, focused concentration state, which we call hypnosis, and give this person some very powerful positive suggestions about how they would like to be while they are playing ball.  If done effectively, this can result in permanent resolution.

Another option, and these may need to be combined or done independently, is to have the ball player revisit the original sensitizing event and re-evaluate the occurrence.  This is called regressive therapy and also is very effective.  (Some times the athlete doesn’t even recall what the mental block or memory is consciously).  Imagine the difference between being in a roller coaster and simply watching a roller coaster in a movie.  These are referred to as fully associated vs. disassociated.  When you are fully associated to an experience it’s hard to objectively resolve it.  When you are disassociated from an experience it’s much easier to change the perspective, see it differently, and release any attachment or feelings about it.  This can be life changing and is done through a combination of hypnosis and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques.

A third option is called “collapsing negative anchors or triggers”.  If every time a person thinks about a situation a feeling comes up that limits them, then using an NLP, “collapsing negative anchors or triggers” technique might be the best.  The human brain can only feel one feeling at a time.  Try putting one of your hands into a bucket of ice water, and the other hand into a bucket of very warm water and see if you can tell the difference. If you associate a number of positive feelings to a touch on a fingernail, every time you touch that fingernail, you will feel positive.  If you associate the negative feeling (fear or limiting belief) to a touch on another fingernail, every time you, or someone else touches that fingernail there will be the negative feeling.  When you or someone else touches both fingers at the same time, they will neutralize the negative felling!  Really amazing.  Try it some time or give me a call and I will be happy to take you through it.

I will post an MP3 file on my website next week offering these techniques and look for my next you Tube with the “collapsing” technique demonstrated.

You’re not in this alone.  Check out all my MP3 downloads on my website or schedule your own private live session to have something customized just for you!  If you have any questions or would like some personal guidance or coaching, feel free to give me a call at 303-979-5498  or visit my website at www.AskAHyp.com.  You’ll be glad you did!

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For weeks I’ve been blogging about, “The Secrets to Permanent Weight Control” and I sincerely hope you’re still using them, enjoying them personally and sharing them.  (“Remember, that which we share expands and that which we withhold deteriorates”). 

Last week I blogged about a topic that is actually another “Secret to Permanent Weight Control” but goes much, much further and that is “Your Perfect Self Image”.  (“Keep Perfecting Your Self Image constantly!”)

This week our blog is about a topic that is enhanced as a result of you having “Permanent Weight Control” and by you “Perfecting Your Self Image” and that is “Increasing Your Confidence.”  (How much more confidence will you have when you already have “Permanent Weight Control” and “Your Perfect Self Image?”)

How many of us would enjoy more Confidence?  I’m guessing probably darn near all of us.  So listen up.  Having worked with champions in pretty much every sport and highly successful people in most every area of life, I have found profound consistencies that exist throughout extremely confident individuals.  In fact, the bottom line in everyone’s level of confidence is…the way that we think!  Think like a confident person and you will be a more confident person!  Think like a Champion and you will be a Champion!  So how do we do that?

Take a close look at the word “confidence”.   From its root form, the word “confidence” means, “already having done it”.  Are you confident that you can put on your shoes?  Why?  Because you have probably done it countless times!  Are you confident you can take a shower or brush your teeth?  Why?  Because you have done it before!  Anything you are confident in doing you have no doubt either done it before yourself, or you have seen someone you feel comparable to having done it successfully. 

Now take a look at the things you aren’t so confident in doing.  How about public speaking, skydiving, flying an airplane, asking someone out on a date or asking for a job or for a pay increase?  How confident are you in those areas of your life?  Why?  Because you’ve probably not done it before or even worse, your “already having done it” means, “I really blew it the last time I tried!”

In order for you to have excellent confidence in any area of life requires you to “already having done it”-successfully to your satisfaction!  How can you “already having done it” if you never have done it successfully to your satisfaction yet?  One way is to “already having done it in your mind”.  Rehearse, or practice, in your mind you, or someone you feel comparable to doing whatever you want to feel confident about successfully in your mind.  Do this over and over in your mind until you feel it in your body.  While you’re doing this in your mind, add the feelings, sounds, smells and tastes of already being confident as well as what you would say to yourself if you knew you were already confident.

Another way to have more confidence is to imagine that you are inside of a person that you know would have excellent confidence doing the thing that you would love to have more confidence in doing.  Simply imagine what that person would see, hear, smell, taste and feel and repeat that in your mind until it feels real for you.

And a third way to have more confidence is to get rid of the old movie that might still be your head about a time when “I really blew it the last time I tried!”  Just run that old movie backwards and forwards so much in your mind that you feel relieved from any attachment to it.  Then replace it with a new movie of “already having done it”-successfully to your satisfaction! 

We’re not in this alone.  If you have any questions or would like some personal guidance or coaching, feel free to give me a call at 303-979-5498 or visit my website at www.AskAHyp.com. 

For several weeks we have been blogging about, “The Secrets to Permanent Weight Control” and I sincerely hope you’re using and enjoying them. This week I am blogging about a topic that is actually another “Secret to Permanent Weight Control” but goes much, much further.  “Your Perfect Self Image”. 

Possibly the most important thing in your life is…how you see yourself!

A while ago I received a sweet picture of a fine-looking kitten looking into a full-length mirror.  The reflection in the mirror showed a handsome, regal, full grown lion!  That, to me, said a mouthful.

Have you ever seen, or have been, a little girl pushing a baby buggy?  What picture do you think that young person has in her mind?  What is her “Perfect Self Image”?  And take a wild guess as to where that person will probably be some day as an adult.  You guessed it, most likely a mom pushing her baby in a baby buggy!

How about a young person, swinging a baseball bat, or throwing a football, where might that young one end up someday?  Very likely on a team, earning a scholarship or maybe even going on to be a professional sports personality!

What is Your Perfect Self Image?  Do you look in the mirror and still see the little pussycat  (or perhaps an extremely overweight one)?  Or are you the one seeing the lion, the ideal way you can be. 

My mentor taught me that he did not see people as they were, but he saw them as they can be.  When persons come to me to make permanent lasting changes in their lives, I make a point of seeing them in their greatest splendor and teaching them to do the same.  Do you want to be a certain weight, then see yourself already there, eating and moving your body the same way you will at your ideal weight!  Do you want more money?  Then see yourself already there!  Do you really want to be happy?  Then see that picture clearly in your mind, NOW!  When do you want that change to begin?  Then see yourself there in your mind now! 

Here is another piece that will make Your Perfect Self Image work even better and faster!  Add more dimensions to Your Perfect Self Image!  What do I mean by that?  How would you feel if you already were where you want to be?  What would it sound like if you already were where you want to be?  What would you say to yourself and where would your eyes be looking if you were already where you want to be?  Where would your shoulders be?  How would you breathe if you were already where you want to be? What expression would be on your face if you were already the person you want to be?

This is also known as the Mind/Body/Connection!  See in your mind what you want for your body and for your life and let the connection begin!  Enjoy “Your Perfect Self Image!” If you have any questions or would like some help, visit my website at www.AskAHyp.com  or feel free to give me a call at 303-979-5498.

Emotional eating is a huge problem and now you are getting clarity about what causes it and how to control it.  Again, there are three aspects to emotional eating; number one is breathing and always will be.  In our last blog we covered, Secrets to Permanent Weight Control-Part III -“How to Control Emotional Eating” aspect 2-Eye Movements.  In this blog we are covering the third and final aspect, Secrets to Permanent Weight Control-Part IV -“How to Control Emotional Eating” aspect 3-Facial Muscles.

 You will find this to be every bit as amazing, a lot of fun and you will feel tons better!Previously I wrote about a science called, “Neuro-Linguistic Programming” or “NLP”.  More specifically I talked about eye movements.  Now I want to talk about your facial muscles and how that effects emotional eating, too.

Your face contains around eighty muscles.  These muscles are attached to ligaments that lead to your heart.  When you get stressed your jaw tightens.  In turn the valves to your heart close and adrenalin is pumped into your bloodstream.  Adrenalin puts your nervous system into the fight or flight syndrome.   Your heart races, and your subconscious mind knows that too much adrenalin will kill you!  (You may have heard of people being “scared to death”).

Your subconscious mind’s primary function or purpose is…to keep you alive!  So when your subconscious feels that there is too much adrenalin being pumped into your blood system, it will do something to help you “turn it off!”  Your subconscious mind looks through all of your memories in a heartbeat to find some way to make you smile.  “I know, I will get you to eat because as soon as you start eating, you have to smile!”  (Try eating with a frown on your face.  Your teeth won’t line up and the food will fall out of the corners of your mouth!)

As soon as you release your jaw and smile, you turn off the adrenalin, and you begin pumping endorphins into your brain!  Endorphins make you feel really good!  Try it right now.  Release your jaw and put a smile on your face and see how you feel!  Now doesn’t that make you feel better?

Try smiling and releasing your jaw whenever stress occurs and you will find that the stress (and the emotional eating) will disappear!  Anyone can smile when they win the Lottery!  It takes proper programming of your mind to do it when life isn’t always going the way you want it to. 

Are you ready to eliminate your emotional eating?  Then Remember to:  Look Up With Your Eyes, Release Your Jaw and Smile, and…Take a Deep Breath!

If you would like some help, give me a call at 303-979-5498.

Your Hypnotherapist and Master NLP Practitioner,

Lee G. Rindner, CHT/NLP

303-979-5498