what are altered states and why are they important stay tuned this is Damon Cart
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back to you or you can email me at Damon@NLP-Gym.com what is an altered
state if you look at the definition it'll say something about not a normal
state not a normal state of mind and perhaps induced by hypnosis are drugs
and yes drugs can alter your state so can hypnosis open meditation and NLP and
why would you even want to do that well when you think about what we're doing
day to day in our normal state whatever your normal state is if you're not
getting what you want and you're in a state of desire or in a state of want
well that implies that you're in a state of not having complete fulfillment or
satisfaction are not being completely sold in NLP we call that the present
state you have a present state and the desired state is the state that you want
to be in a state of fulfillment satisfaction wholeness how whatever it
is that you're looking to fulfill you may say though well I don't really want
to state I want a new car are I want a million dollars or I want that really
hot guy or that gorgeous woman we think we want that but what we really want is
we want the state of what we think that thing are rather we want the state of
being or fulfillment of satisfaction from having that object or thing that we
think will give that to us let me say that a different way a million dollars
is not because you want lots of green paper it's because you want the state
you think having a million dollars will put you
this is why things and objects don't necessarily make us happy
this is also why we can be happy without them what we're looking for is to
achieve a certain state by the things that we want when you put yourself in a
state of whatever it is that's missing and you give that to yourself internally
and you access that resource within yourself and you allow yourself to be
happy and fulfilled now a funny thing happens you actually are more likely to
attract the object or whatever it is that you were looking for so if you're
in the present state which means you're in a state of wanting something that you
don't have recognize that it's the state that you're looking to be in it that
word true if objects inherently had their own value then we would all want
the same thing and that's obviously not true
we are searching for certain states that we want to experience and we think the
object that we achieve or that could be a success or an achievement it doesn't
have to be an object we think by having that that that would give us the feeling
of fulfillment and you can be more specific about which state that might be
like joy or excitement or feeling safe these are all states that we're wanting
to have and we often go and search outside of ourselves for that when
really what we're looking for is within us how to how do we get to the press
from the present state to the desired state often takes going into an altered
state to get there the altered state is sort of like the bridge to getting there
you have to get outside of your normal state because your normal state
obviously isn't giving you what you want otherwise you would already be fulfilled
and happy when you can recognize that you're in a state of want or desire
recognize that as your present state and recognize it you'll probably have to go
into an altered state that might feel like confusion or seem like confusion
and then it realigns again and what happens is you now get to the desired
state so you enter a state of that fulfillment and satisfaction
now this can happen in an instant and transformation can be instantaneous it
doesn't have to be dragged out for a long period of time it's like that is
that is the way that it happens is instantaneously because though it may
feel like you've suffered for a long time it's
just a split second or moment that everything changes and you might go into
that altered state and have a moment of confusion and then it realigns and then
settles on the new state the desired state the state that you want to be in
meditation is a good way to do this because in meditation what you do is you
quiet the mind your quieting all the constructs all the thoughts and the
beliefs that create your present state and when you can do that you can get
outside of that normal state often in meditation you will enter an altered
state and in that altered state you're able to reconnect with your inner
resources and realize that the state that you're wanting is actually already
within you and you can connect to that and when you do and you're coming from
the place of wholeness and fulfilment it's much easier to achieve your goals
when you do that hypnosis is another way to do it
hypnosis in a way is putting the conscious mind to sleep so that you can
connect with the unconscious now this will also be an altered state you go
into a state of trance in order to do that so you quiet again like meditation
you quiet the conscious mind and give direct instructions to the unconscious
NLP is also the same thing except it's more direct with NLP you're more
conscious of what you're doing you're consciously going in a lot of times it
can do it unconsciously but consciously you're going in and redoing the wiring
and basically using processes to change up your present state and in that
process you will go through an altered state to then get to that desired state
so these are all great methods I recommend using all of them meditation
hypnosis and NLP I do that as a regular practice and they all achieve the same
goal they just go about it and different means and I think when you do it that
way instead of just using one tool and you're using free tools it becomes a lot
more effective
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