When I first got certified as a practitioner in 2017, I loved what I was learning so much that I decided to invest more money to get my certification as a master practitioner in 2018, and then in 2019, I was asked to come back to be in a mentorship role to help with new students getting their practitioner certification.

Funny… I assumed going back to help was just going to be a great refresher for me, but I found that I picked up more learnings and went through my own breakthroughts while watching others learn and answering their questions for them.

Here are some of my biggest takeaways from NLP:

Your level of communication becomes significantly more effective.

It becomes more effective because you are completely aware that if the other person does not understand what you are saying, it’s not their fault—it’s actually yours.

You learn to take ownership of everything and therefore, you feel more in control of your life. If you are aware that the other person just doesn’t seem to be understanding what you are telling them, then you now have the opportunity to take a step back and think of a different way to get your message across to them.

There’s a popular saying: “It’s not what you said, it’s what was heard.”

When you learn to take responsibility for how you perceive the world, it suddenly works in your favor.

So, instead of getting irritated that the other person didn’t fully comprehend what you were explaining to them, you just take a moment to think, “how else can I put this so that it makes more sense to them?” When you do this, not only is your energy compassionate and helpful, you also make the other person feel comfortable around you.

When people feel comfortable around you, they want to hear what you have to say and make the effort to fully understand.

Our brain is amazing.

Because of our brain, we get to make the choice to understand that it is always doing its job—which is to protect us. So, sometimes the brain can unintentionally work against what we consciously want, which is to be successful, to have wealth, and to live in joy.

Yet as we are growing up, we live through experiences that may have taught us dumb a%$ things like:

• Making money is hard
• Relationships are difficult
• Eating healthy sucks
• Happiness is rare

And why would our brain want us to experience hardship and difficulty? It doesn’t! So in order to protect us, it will make sure we find the easiest way out of everything:

• We don’t make money easily because we learned that it was hard
• We don’t fully give our all in relationships because they’re just too difficult
• We’ll be unhealthy because its easier
• Happiness is rare so I’ll just never expect it

REJECT THAT SH*T.

We have the beautiful ability to shift our mindset and leverage language to make sure that our brain is woking in alignment with what we truly want. As we begin to use new language, the brain then creates new neurons and neuro pathways to think differently.

• Making money is fun and easy
• Relationships are fufilling
• Eating healthy gives me energy
• Happiness is everywhere

And this is the reason why I love NLP so much!

I get to teach this stuff to my little cousins, to my friends, and to new people I meet.

I get to use this language that works for me and hopefully subconsciously slip the lanuage into the people surrounding me so that they, too, can experience a shift and begin making more money, having happier relationship, and feeling better physically and emotionally.

Let me know if you’ve heard of NLP and what you love about it?

XOXO,

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During the past three years, I studied a ton about how the unconscious mind works side-by-side with the conscious mind, and it finally hit me (while I was at a three-day event) how it works.

And of course, how meditation comes into play.

Essentially, we have our:

• Conscious mind – the part of the brain that makes conscious decisions such as going to the gym or what to eat for lunch.
• Subconscious mind – the part of our consciousness that takes in information behind the scenes (whether it’s heard, seen, felt, or remembered). We may not be actively aware of the information at the moment. Yet, it still can influence us.
• Unconscious mind – as quoted from Diffen, a part of the brain that cannot be known by the conscious mind and includes socially unacceptable ideas, wishes, and desires.

Now that we understand how the different parts of our mind work, we might start to wonder how we would access what our unconscious mind thinks.

When we take the time to meditate more often than not, I genuinely believe that it allows us to quiet our ongoing, over-analytical thoughts so that we can be open to hearing what our unconscious mind wants to tell us about how to live our best lives.

The subtle hints from our unconscious mind to remind us of our deepest wishes and desires that we’re so afraid of showing the world. The challenge is that we tend to suppress these unconscious desires so profoundly that it feels impossible for us to understand and realize what we genuinely want to make us happy. We go along with what is socially acceptable in terms of what to want, have, and need, then we begin to believe that it’s the only way to live our lives. Ultimately, it makes so many people unhappy, and they can’t seem to figure out why when they’ve reached all the levels of success that they’ve set for themselves.

Subtle hints from our unconscious mind to remind us of our deepest wishes and desires

Of course, we’ve all heard that meditation can be challenging to do when we first start. We get distracted by noises and the continually running thoughts. However, after practice and progressively making our meditations longer, we can only get better and better, which is then where, I believe, the magic happens.

It’s the times where we get out of our head and into our hearts (a.k.a stop overthinking and listen to your deepest wishes and desires), where we find the most joy. So I invite you to start meditating for 1 minute a day, then progress to 3 minutes, then 5, then 10. See if you can allow your unconscious mind to speak to you and give you the answers you’ve been searching for. 

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