100: Understanding How Your Mind Works With NLP

In today’s episode, we talk about NLP and how powerful your mind can be in creating a reality that you need to accomplish new things. I walk you through an exercise to help anchor feelings of joy, confidence, and ease in your life. This episode is great for anyone who has an interest in learning more about how their mind works or has an interest in changing something about how they think. This is also great for anyone who has heard about NLP but wanted clarity on what it is and how it could help them. Thank for listening and sharing with your friends. Transcript: Welcome to the art of living day. I’m your host, Betsy Pake, and this podcast is designed to share interviews and new ideas to help you redefine what could be possible for your life. Now, let’s go live big. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the show. All right, I have had a terrible cold ever since I got back from the beach. So I feel like my throat is clear. We’re gonna hope for the best here. Welcome to today’s episode, I want to talk with you today about NLP about neuro linguistic programming. So you may have heard me talk about that. Or you may have heard if you follow along on Instagram, that I chat about NLP. And that’s what I’m trained in. So I just completed my master certification for NLP. And as I was sort of talking about that, people were asking me like, what is it? And so I wanted to get into that a little bit today. And I also want to give you a tool to help you increase your confidence. Hmm. But first, just a little background here. So what is NLP? Here’s the problem, as I see it with NLP is that it’s a little bit abstract. It’s not like, like Emotional Freedom Technique, like tapping, where it’s something that you physically do. And you can see people do it. And OPI is really like a lot of things. And also, if you want to learn more about EFT, you know, I do have an episode on that episode 17, if you want to learn more about that, but NLP is really about the process of your thought. So there are processes that you do, like tapping is, there are processes that you do. And at the end, I’m going to take you through one of those processes. But really NLP at its basis at its core, is just the processes of your thoughts. So it’s the study of what’s going on, every single time you think it’s not the chemical breakdown of what’s going on. But it’s more about the step by step process of what’s happening. So here’s how I think about ourselves. We have bodies, and we have brains. But what about our mind? So if I cut open your head right now and looked inside, would I find your mind? Like during an autopsy, they can look and see what was the last thing I ate. But they couldn’t really see the last time I felt love, or the last time I suffered. That’s in your mind. And the study of NLP is really about the study of how that works. So NLP has a variety of what NLP calls presuppositions, but really, they’re just basic guiding principles. So I want to share those, the two main ones with you. So one is that there is no such thing as an inner enemy. So you’re not broken. There’s nothing wrong with you. And when you do things that aren’t good for you like like smoking or getting back together with that same crappy boyfriend over and over and over again, there is a part of you that thinks that this action is important for your well being. Now, the second presupposition is that behind every behavior, there’s a positive intention. So let’s say, let’s say you have Oh, okay, I have a, I have one here. So I had an issue with my neighbor about a year ago. And they misunderstood something that I said,