Using Language to Intentionally Alter and Enhance Consciousness

Have you ever had a great conversation that powerfully affected you for days or weeks afterwards? Or had a quick interaction on the street that threw your whole day out of whack?

Our ability to affect others with our choice of words and gestures, even in simple day to day situations, is truly profound. Yet it's something we often take for granted. To borrow an idea from L. Michael Hall's classic NLP book Mind Lines, "Sticks and stones may break our bones but words can break our hearts." Hall however, left out the other side of the equation which is - that words spoken congruently with the proper intention can mend broken hearts, calm troubled minds, heal the soul, uplift, inspire and create endless opportunities for novelty and fun.

All of the potential of human experience can be accessed and activated through language and intention. And it's exciting to consider that by making a few simple tweaks to the way you think and speak, that you can easily transform your experience of communicating and connecting with others.

This time around we're going to look at exactly how to do that by:

• Exploring your values and values systems
• Applying game theory as a communication mind-set
• Indentifying and amplifying skills and strengths in your conversational style for better results
• Ways to de-emphasize communication challenges and getting around obstacles
• Using role models for faster personal development

This will include discussion of how to use these basic hypnosis and NLP principles:

• Tonality, tempo and pitch
• Controlling levels of abstraction and specificity
• Improving conversational flexibility
• Pivoting, shifting and reframing meaning

In order to get more juice out of your conversations and relationships, and more easily minimize dealing with the people and situations you want to avoid.

Bring your experiences, your goals and a sense of humor as we work on using the power of language for good.