Souce: Erickson Institute

Occasionally, people might over-identify with a particular aspect of their life experiences—certain limiting beliefs, most common being a distorted body image (“nobody likes me because I’m fat,” “I’m single because I’m bold,” etc.), for example. This is problematic in and of itself, but these people may also develop an unhealthy obsession with even more severely limited NLP practitioner of themselves. For instance, they may identify with behaviors or thought patterns that lead to the emergence of a victimized, dependent, or otherwise dysfunctional self. That’s when they most often seek the help of a professional, such as yourself. This pattern is designed to help a person develop self-awareness and the ability to focus their attention sequentially on each of their major personality traits, roles, and so on. They then become acutely aware of and capable of examining these characteristics while maintaining the observer’s perspective and recognizing that the observer is not the observed.

Step 1: Slowly inhale and exhale through your nose while keeping your body in an upright and comfortable position. #

Step 2: Ask and wait for a nod of confirmation or an answe… #

Do you believe that you are greater than your circumstances, health, income, or relationships? Do you believe you are more than your ideas and emotions? Do you believe that you are more than your roles and responsibilities? Do you believe that you are more than your physical body? Are you eager to pursue these concepts further in order to connect with your higher self?

Step 3: Now, slowly and attentively say the following trut… #

“I have a body, but I am not my body.” “I have feelings, but I am not my feelings.” “I have a mind, but I am not my mind.”

Step 4: Close your eyes for a moment, recollect briefly in your consciousness the basic substance of this affirmation, and then gradually bring your attention to the key concept: “I have a body, yet I am not my body. #

Step 5: Open your eyes and break state. #

Step 6: Now close your eyes again. #

Make every effort to internalize this as an experienced event in your consciousness as much as you possibly can. You can internalize an abstract idea by letting the sensation that you feel within your body while thinking about it run freely and smoothly from your head to your toes and back.

Step 7: Ask and wait for a nod of confirmation or an answe… #

What does it feel like to announce, “I have a body, but I am not my body”? How does it feel to announce, “I have feelings, but I am not my feelings”? What does it feel like to announce, “I have a mind, but I am not my mind”? How does it feel to announce, “I have a religion, but I am not my religion”? How does it feel to announce, “I have a ___, but I am not a _____”?

Step 8: As you settle into a comfortable and secure state of mind, allow the activation of a higher self willing to think timelessly about who you are. #

Step 9: Allow your higher self to take a step back and safely and objectively analyze the distinctions between your essential core and other elements of yourself. #

As you fully accept those components of your former self as extensions, functions, or tools of your core self, you will discover how secure and important it is for your core self to continue with or without them.

Step 10: Remain aware of how those developments are not synonymous with who you are at your core. #

Remain aware of how you can invoke those extensions, functions, or tools as needed by your higher self.

Step 11: Solicit the brain’s assistance in developing a higher self. #

Have you connected with the self that exists apart from your possessions, thoughts, attitudes, and emotions? This is sometimes referred to as the “viewer,” “audience, “observer, or “supervisor” of what occurs in the body-mind.

Step 12: Solicit from your brain the creation of a space for your higher self to exist. #

Have you obtained it? Consolidate the higher self as a permanent and self-sustaining entity.

Step 13: Would you consent to your higher self freely observing your future thoughts, feelings, and attachments? #

Step 14: Future pace. #

As you consider the future of this new form of awareness, are there any parts of it that make you uneasy? Allow yourself some time to connect with your higher self while you journey into the future. Allow that to permeate your work, family, and social communication, among other areas.