Mixing up words when speaking is a lot of people’s problem. They look for medical names for this issue on the net, yet find none, because it boils down to a simple phenomenon described in this entry. Read the rest of this entry »
This entry will help you if you have come across the concept of grounding and how useful it is for anyone anywhere in any situation, but still struggle with how to get grounded. A few ways how are outlined below. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s incredible how many times I’ve heard people [especially in the corporate professions such as transport, law, IT, banking, and a few others] tell me that they were worried about people who take a degree in psychology, because psychology was too wishy-washy, uncertain for the prospect of getting secure jobs on the basis of a degree in it, and somewhat not as important as were their professions [of course they'd say that, but that's another story]. So the core argument was ‘we need lawyers, we need IT almighties, we need transport, we need bankers, but we don’t really need psychologists’. These same people would also tell me that the number of people who go for a degree in psychology is the highest of all degrees simply because psychology is the easiest degree to get and if one wants a degree for the sake of the paper to give them the passport to a job in any field, a degree in psychology is an obvious choice without needing too much effort. But then… Read the rest of this entry »
Here, verbatim, is another issue one mother recently approached me with and which I deem worthy of sharing with all parents facing similar issues. Have a read, you might well recognize that you and your child have long been struggling with something similar – and say “Finally! Here’s what I’ve been looking for for ages!” Read the rest of this entry »
How do you know when you’re ungrounded and ned to get grounded when you’ve never come across the concept of grounding before? Here’re some signs: Read the rest of this entry »
Ever since I learned that the practice of grounding was an essential factor in dealing with learning difficulties, I never omit to teach people how to make it a part of their lives when I work with them. It’s free of charge, free of side effects, universally done, and inevitable for dealing with any learning difficulties. I’ve received a lot of positive feedback as well as questions on grounding, so here’s more on how grounding can help you regardless of whether you [or someone you know and are thinking of while reading this] have [has] learning difficulties or not.
Even if not all of us know what grounding is, many don’t realize that they know what the opposite of grounding is, because they’d never think of giving it a name. Being ungrounded is the feeling of being distracted, fidgety, unable to take to anything, pacing around aimlessly, and busy in the head when a thousand thoughts want to be attended to at once. Stress is another form of being ungrounded. Grounding is a feeling of calmness in the mind and body, a feeling of being at one with ourselves, a feeling of being in control of everything, a feeling of being on top of things, being connected with our bodies, and having clear, focused minds. Different names are used for grounding in different parts of the world. I’ve heard it being referred to as earthing and centering as well as grounding.
The metaphor of earthing reminds us of the electricity system in our dwellings, and we know why we need the electricity system earthed. In exactly the same way we need to be earthed. Another useful take on grounding is that of the practice of reflexology. Reflexology is based on the principle that all the main energy channels that go through our bodies and connect internal organs have their endings in the feet. So to make sure that we can access vital enegy from our environments, it’s essential that we have all the energy channel endings in good condition to be able to connect with the earth [ = walk on healthy feet]. If a nerve ending is damaged, the influx of energy to that ending is blocked and blocked energy hurts. Trying to connect a painful and congested nerve ending in our foot with the earth energy is like trying to put a plug into a defective socket. [If something hurts in your foot, can you walk = connect with the earth properly?] On the other hand, have you ever noticed a gentle tingling or a warm sensation of movement in your feet? And what do your feet feel like when you’ve had a foot massage, a cold shower which stimulated the circulation, a hot tub, a swim, a good sleep, or a walk in the fresh air? Do your feet feel revitalized and pleasantly tingling? Does it feel almost like as if you can feel the blood flowing in the veins? Do your feet feel lighter?
Connecting electrical equipment / appliances to the earth is known as earthing / grounding. It protects the equipment from getting electric shocks, power surges, shortcircuiting, and interference. Grounding protects the delicate electrical circuitry of our bodies from various types of interference from our environments. Grounding facilitates the reception of free electrons and a vast array of energies from the earth. Free radicals, which we pick up from our environments, are not healthy for us. We can get over free radicals by a high volume of antioxidants which have negative electrons, but are available to free radicals. The ground also has a lot of negative electrons which are available to free radicals. But the soles of our shoes act as layers of insulation between the earth and our feet, and the negative electrons can’t access the free radicals. Of course, lots of people now walk around in high heel shoes which is even less grounding!
Since grounding is a state of being in any given moment and not a constant, some people find feeling grounded where appropriate more natural, while others have to work harder to feel grounded. Then there’re people who have been raised by ungrounded parents and thus never experienced grounding, so don’t know what it feels like. NLP has 6 levels of dealing with any situation. And these 6 levels beautifully apply to grounding and learning difficulties too:
It’s easy to teach people how to be more connected to the earth = how to get grounded. Learn a few suggestions here. And for even more, contact me.
The inventor of the idea of sex education being taught from early grades in mainstream education thought that it’d be beneficial to societies in the same way as I’ve been maintaining for years that teaching NLP from early grades in schools would. So how? What payback would governments get in the long term if they invested in the implementation of this idea? Read the rest of this entry »
Can lawyers and legal professionals affected by learning difficulties get help for them without incurring too much cost in time, money, and energy? If yes, how? Read the rest of this entry »
Perhaps you are, which is why you’ve come to this blog post. But then, there’s so much information out there, there’re so many life coaches within Toronto or London UK alone, and there’re so many areas all these life coaches specialize in… so where do you start? And how’s the service of life coaching administered anyway? Read the rest of this entry »
Here we are past the doorstep of a new year again, but how many of us have actually become “better people” with the clock’s strike of 12? Read the rest of this entry »
Your mind is one of your most precious assets. You must be continually working to increase the quality of your thinking. So how can you make every minute count in your professional development no matter what professional field you’re in? Read the rest of this entry »
The NLP principle of chunking information is described here and, as mentioned in that entry, it’s good for your memory. But that’s not where NLP and chunking information ends. It’s also beautifully used and usable in helping individuals in dealing with learning difficulties. How? Here’s the lowdown: Read the rest of this entry »
This is the age of achievement. Never have more people accomplished more things in more different fields than they are accomplishing these days. More people are becoming successful at a faster rate than ever in history. There have never been more opportunities for you to turn your dreams into realities than there are at present times. Despite this fact there’re always plenty of people whose lives are the opposite of fulfilling… So how come? If it is really so hard to make one’s life fulfilling, how come there’re a those who do know how to make their lives fulfilling? Well, here’re the 7 launching pads of this rocket science… Read the rest of this entry »
Your major source of stress in life is the fear of rejection, criticism, and disapproval. This fear of rejection manifests itself in an overconcern for the (dis)approval of others. The fear of rejection is often learned in early childhood as the result of a parent giving the child what psychologists call conditional love. Many parents made the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children did something that the parents wanted them to do. A child who has grown up with this kind of conditional love tends to seek unconditional approval from others all his / her life. When the child becomes an adult, this need for approval from the parent is transferred to the workplace and onto the boss. The adult employee can then become preoccupied with the boss’s opinion. This preoccupation can lead to an obsession to perform to some undetermined high standard.
This behavior varies from mild to extreme forms. People who display forms on the extreme end of the continuum usually put so much pressure on themselves to perform in order to please their bosses / partners / others that they burn themselves out. They often die of heart attacks before the age of 60. This behavior, triggered by conditional love in childhood, is a very serious stress-related phenomenon in the Western workplace.
2 things you can do immediately to deal with the fear of rejection, criticism, and disapproval:
Contact me for more tips, help, or motivation. I definitely won’t reject you.
Prior planning prevents poor performance is the original version of the 5Ps, but I’ll now modify it to prior preparation prevents poor performance. Almost the same thing, but I’ll expand on the preparation p in this entry. So be prepared! Read the rest of this entry »
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