NLP and the law of attraction, when going hand in hand, can be Life transforming for every person. When these two techniques are combined together, and turned into actions, they truly become something which will help you attract the future that you want and the goals that you desire.
What Is The Law Of Attraction?
The Law of Attraction basically states that we attract what we focus on. It means whatever our thoughts are, they turn into our reality, and whatever it is that you are focusing on you’ll get more of in your life. The understanding that your thoughts are not who you are, rather than an instrument that can be tuned into what you desire, can indeed be mind blowing, but holds tremendous force in it.
That is why most people say ‘to think positively in order to attract positive things into your life’. This law has no barriers like religion, nationality, or age, it is merely an external reflection of what’s happening within you inside. It works for everyone regardless of what their belief system is. Similarly, it also means that if you stay sad and depressed and focus your thoughts on the negatives of life, for example, if you’re going to have an interview and you keep thinking you will mess it up, the law of attraction says that you will, if you keep on dwelling on the negatives. If you follow this law, that is why we should keep a positive head towards everything in life.
How can NLP relate to that?
What Is Neuro Linguistic Programing?
NLP or neuro-linguistic programming is a study of psychological and neurological patterns and behaviors that are exhibited by humans. These patterns and behaviors are thoroughly studied and understood for the underlying reasons that they exist and NLP aims to reorient or reprogram certain undesirable stubborn parts of individuals. NLP was created by John Grinder and Richard Bandler from California and they combined the concepts of personal development, communication, and psychotherapy to do so.
NLP typically involves using and applying tried and tested methods of addressing psychological issues and unwanted behavioral patterns through the experience of other people who have had the same issues and behavioral patterns, along with finding change catalysts within the patient’s/trainee’s past experiences. NLP has had a large number of cases of success due to which this mode of psychotherapy is popular among the young and adults alike from all kinds of professions and walks of life, where Tony Robbins is the most known NLP practitioner, helping millions worldwide.
When it comes to our aspirations, goals, and desires, they are all things that we want to happen to us in the future. If we want something to happen to us, it means that we still don’t have it, meaning that we need to change something in ourselves or in our environment in order for changes to occur. If you keep doing the same things, you’ll get the same results.
From NLP’s point of view, it means to actively change our mental, physical, and behavioral patterns in order to tune ourselves towards what we want.
From The Law Of Attraction’s point of view, have you ever witnessed someone that just easily received everything that they wanted in life? Where they get what they desire with ease and without doing anything special for that? I am sure we all know someone who gets the best of best things and ends up in amazing situations without putting in any or a lot of efforts? Someone who just keeps attracting new opportunities and the doors keep opening for him or her?
So, why is that that most of us do not get to attract opportunities like these? Maybe it is because we do not know how to attract what we want in life? So, how does one attract the things that he or she desires? Surprisingly enough it is simple, and exactly what the law of attraction teaches us, that our perception towards things and situations is exactly what we attract.
So when you are combining the concept of attraction presented by the Law Of Attraction with NLP techniques, you are getting a powerful multi-level approach for manifesting everything that you want in life. The following NLP techniques can definitely lead you there.
Observe your patterns
We have all been in that position where we feel bad about something or towards someone. We have all experienced a situation from time to time again which gets us all demotivated and bummed. We feel low and gloomy. It might be something that makes you very nervous like let’s say, public speaking. Whenever you are asked to speak publicly or to a group of people, you start feeling very anxious and you get very nervous. Or every time someone who is special to you talks to you, you get very shy, to the point that you cannot speak to him or her.
Though it is natural to feel that way from time to time, when these emotions, anxiousness, shyness, rage, and sadness constantly and repeatedly arise, you are just re-affirming and repeating the negativity of this situation, not allowing anything to change. Again, what you are focusing on you’ll get more of.
But one common NLP scheme that can change all of that is observing your patterns. Every feeling that you have is being triggered by both physical and mental states and patterns, and when you are changing the mental or physical elements you are also changing the feeling. What kind of physical and mental patterns do you notice when a non-desired feeling starts to rise?
How did you stand?
How did you breathe?
Where were your hands?
What did you tell yourself in your head?
And amazingly enough, in some physical states it is almost impossible to feel sad. Try raising your hands like a winner and feel sad and energy-less at the same time. It is literally impossible!
This is because your brain is no linking your physical state with that specific emotion, therefore you are getting something else.
After practicing a little controlling over this triangle of states of emotional-mental-physical, you’ll come to realize how powerful this technique can be. Imagine what you can ‘teach’ your mind and body to feel and transmit, it can really open a door to a completely different reality.
Reframe The Situation
Oftentimes when we want something that we currently don’t have to appear in our lives we are having a hard time imagining how it will appear in our lives, if at all.
And this is where it’s time to ‘fool’ our mind a little bit, extracting and using the confidence that we have in other fields of our lives.
Let’s say that you are terrified of talking to strangers, but you are great at riding a bicycle. Is it possible to shift the confidence that you have at biking onto talking to strangers?
Now that you already know how to observe your patterns, imagine the time you had a hard time talking to strangers, observe how your physical, mental, and emotional states are.
Can you remember how you felt? Maybe your hands where sweaty, your stomach ached, and your heart is beating fast. Maybe in your mind you hear an annoying voice telling you: ‘Why are you like that? Can’t you be normal?’. And maybe the main emotion that is taking charge of you in that moment is fear.
Now let’s go to the other experience when you are having a great ride on your bike.
Maybe you are feeling that breathing comes so easily when you are riding your bicycle, your head is light, your chest feels free, and you feel your hands touching the cold iron body of the bike. Maybe there’s a great tune that plays in your head, something that is making you feel remarkable. And maybe the emotion you feel the most is calmness, perhaps confidence.
Now, try going back to the situation of talking to strangers, only this time, play that tune that made you feel remarkable. This time, imagine the sensation of touching the cold iron bike with your hands. How is your feeling different now? Has anything changed in the experience?
Of course, it really doesn’t matter what situation it is, whether it’s biking or singing or knitting, what matters is how you felt, and how you can use positive patterns in order to change the way you feel. To minimize and even eliminate emotional states that you don’t want, and to empower positive emotional states that you do want, that will accordingly boost the attraction of more things that will make you feel good.
Freeing Your Beliefs
We all have stories to tell and share. Something which we either experienced or something that has been ingrained in our minds from our childhood. It can be stories about money, time, health, relationships, etc. Like for instance, many believe that once you get rich, you start losing your values. Or pure money is hard to make etc. For example, these are the ideas that have been ingrained in our minds. In order to achieve what you want and your desires, you need to stop limiting your beliefs.
Because when you are constantly repeating the same beliefs you are making it impossible for something new to appear in your life, you are preventing the Law Of Attraction to work for you. Only when you will keep an open mind, will you be able to experience everything.
NLP comes useful here because when you are noticing a limiting belief of yours, you can use your observation skills to detect your exact emotional, physical, and mental patterns and states, and can change them by reframing the situation into something that you are benefiting from, instead of suffering from.
Revive A Positive Memory
This is also known as anchoring. This is basically that whenever you feel good, whenever you feel a nice emotion, connect it with a gesture. So, every time you feel low, you can trigger the gesture and make yourself feel better.
The first step is to identify your emotion. A good one. Whether you feel confident, happy, or motivated. Decide where you want to place the anchor. It can be a pinch on your earlobe, a pinch on your elbow, etc., listening to a specific song, thinking about a specific sentence or a combination of words, or projecting a specific image in your head.
This will allow you to bring and feel a positive emotion at your own will by triggering the gesture. So, every time you feel low, think of the time you felt happy and excited and confident. Then pinch your earlobe or whatever it is that you have made your triggering gesture. Every time you feel a positive emotion and trigger the gesture, it will have a stronger effect on you when you try it when you feel low or sad.
Repetition
Perhaps the most obvious technique, if you are actively repeating something enough times, eventually it will become a habit, something that you already do automatically, something that will come to you with any effort. Everything that you want in life, imagine how it would feel to have it.
Imagine your physical, mental, and emotional states.
Now that you have come up with the exact patterns and behaviors, the only thing left to do is just repeating feeling that way. 3 times a day, 10 times a day, 100 times a day, the more you repeat it the more automatic it will be for you. And when you are so used to feel that way, one of 2 things will happen: Either you’ll get what you want, or you’ll feel so great that you wouldn’t even want it anymore.
NLP attractions and its techniques can play a very important role in your journey, if you have decided that you want to transform your life. By learning and implementing these techniques, you can easily attract what you desire and tune into your ideal future. By taking actions according to NLP techniques, you can attract and achieve the goals you want in your future. These techniques will surely turn your desired future into reality, and perhaps even awaken you into a new awareness.
