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The Renewal Times The Renewal Times is a publication of Renewal Technologies and is edited by Roger Ellerton. This newsletter may be republished without permission, provided it is reproduced in its entirety. To reproduce sections of the newsletter, please contact Renewal Technologies at info@renewal.ca. Please forward this newsletter to friends and colleagues. To become a subscriber, please Click Here! or visit www.renewal.ca/newsletter.htm Please note: The material in this newsletter is presented for information only. It is not a substitute for medical, psychological or professional advice. Please consult a qualified professional. Included in this newsletter:
****************** Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare ************ Have Friends at Work Having friends at work might help keep your blood pressure under control. New research suggests that having a good social support network of friends in the workplace can be beneficial for your health. In a study, people who experienced social support from co-workers or supervisors tended to have lower blood pressure readings, especially during stressful work situations. Over time, high blood pressure can lead to heart problems, kidney disease, and even blindness. High blood pressure puts a strain on your circulatory system, including your heart, which then has to work harder to pump blood. It is not clear what causes high blood pressure. However, stress, salty foods, alcohol consumption, obesity, and a sedentary lifestyle have all been linked to high blood pressure. Workplace social support and ambulatory cardiovascular activity in new york city traffic agents. Karlin, W. A., Brondolo, E., Schwartz, J., Psychosomatic Medicine 2003;65:167-176. -- Have a Glass of Grape Juice If you don't drink alcoholic beverages but want some of the highly touted health benefits of wine, pour yourself a glass of grape juice instead.
Research has revealed that, like wine, grape juice is full of health-protective flavonoids. In a study in which people drank approximately 10 milliliters per kilogram of body weight (or about 24 ounces for a 150-pound person) of Concord grape juice every day for two weeks, the study participants' blood levels of antioxidants increased. Also, the stability of their LDL cholesterol improved, making it less likely to oxidize and stick to artery walls. If you add grape juice to your diet, remember that juices are high in calories, so drink them in moderation or in place of other beverages that contain calories. Also, drink juice made from 100% fruit juice, rather than drinking fruit juice "cocktails," which contain extra sugars and less juice. Red wine is an excellent source of flavonoids, including heart-healthy resveratrol. Both the alcohol and the flavonoids in red wine may be health protective. However, if you do not drink wine, you can still get flavonoids by drinking grape juice. Resveratrol is found in the skins of grapes. Comparison of the antioxidant effects of Concord grape juice flavonoids alpha-tocopherol on markers of oxidative stress in healthy adults. O'Byrne, D. J., Devaraj, S., Grundy, S. M., Jialal, I., American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2002 Dec;76(6):1367-1374. ***************************** NLP Practitioner Training NLP Master Practitioner Training -- Take your NLP knowledge and abilities to the next level! For our most recent schedule and a description of these workshops/seminars, please Click Here! For the location of our Training Centre in Ottawa (Stittsville), Ontario, please Click Here! ************* Milton Model The Meta Model assists a client to be more specific or precise about his problem and as a result he begins to discover possible resources or solutions to his problem. Gregory Batson was enthusiastic about this approach and he was also aware of the work of Milton Erickson who was also getting great results with his clients, but in a different way -- being vague rather than specific, the exact opposite of the Meta Model. Batson encouraged John Grinder and Richard Bandler to meet Erickson and discover why he was so successful. Their description of Erickson’s methods became known as the Milton Model - an approach opposite to the Meta Model, yet an equally useful tool for personal change and human communication.
Milton Erickson Milton Erickson was generally regarded as the foremost hypnotherapist of his time. He worked with trance and cleverly structured sentences full of vague meanings to help his clients discover how to address their problems and the resources that they already had available to them. Erickson’s success was based on his ability to read non-verbal behaviour (sensory acuity), his ability to establish rapport with his clients, his skill with language patterns and his beliefs about his clients -- some of his beliefs appear in the list of NLP Presuppositions. For example:
Erickson would also pace a client’s experience and then begin to lead them into trance (or downtime). In NLP terms, uptime is when your senses are focused on the outside world, while downtime is related to your inner thoughts. The Meta Model is associated with uptime (i.e. who, what, how specifically), while the Milton Model is associated with downtime. As we go through our daily activities, we are continually cycling through uptime and downtime and are often somewhere in between. Pacing and Leading To pace a client, begin by matching and mirroring her physiology, choice of words, tone of voice, etc., then make reference to what she would most likely be seeing, hearing, feeling or thinking (e.g. “As you notice the lights slowly dimming …” or “As you hear my voice …” or As you feel the chair on your back …”, or “As you wonder …”) while speaking slowly in a soft tonally and pacing your speech to her breathing. To lead her into downtime, you would begin to focus her attention inward by saying something such as “You may notice how easy it is to close your eyes whenever you wish to feel more relaxed …” The topic of trance and hypnosis is vast. The rest of this article will focus on the Milton Model, which is a set of language patterns used to:
For more information on hypnosis, the Milton Model and other hypnotic techniques, please see Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Guide by Tad James. Milton Model: Hypnotic Language Patterns The Milton Model hypnotic language patterns encourage the listener to move away from detail and content and move to higher levels of thinking and deeper states of mind. Some patterns are used to establish a trance state (or downtime or relaxation in the body). Other patterns are used to loosen the listener’s model of the world from which he is expressing his current behaviours and to consider a more expansive interpretation of what is possible. You will notice that many of these language patterns are identical to those of the Meta Model. The difference being that for the Meta Model, the client is being vague and we ask specific questions to assist him in getting clarity on his issue/problem. For the Milton Model, we use some of the same language patterns, but this time we wish to be vague so that the client can easily go into trance and/or from the vague suggestions choose a suggested course of action that will address his problem/issue.
And NLP is Much more than that! Author: Roger Ellerton is a certified NLP trainer, certified management consultant and the founder and managing partner of Renewal Technologies. He can be reached at Renewal Technologies www.renewal.ca or by e-mail info@renewal.ca ******* Pharmacists A doctor is to give a speech at the local AMA dinner. He jots down notes for his speech. Unfortunately, when he stands in front of his colleagues later that night, he finds that he can't read his notes. So he asks, "Is there a pharmacist in the house?". -- A young man goes into a drugstore to buy condoms. The pharmacist says the condoms come in packs of 3, 9 or 12 and asks which the young man wants. "Well," he said, "I've been seeing this girl for a while and she's really hot. I want the condoms because I think tonight's "the" night. We're having dinner with her parents, and then we're going out. And I've got a feeling I'm gonna get lucky after that. Once she's had me, she'll want me all the time, so you'd better give me the 12 pack." The young man makes his purchase and leaves. Later that evening, he sits down to dinner with his girlfriend and her parents. He asks if he might give the blessing, and they agree. He begins the prayer, but continues praying for several minutes. The girl leans over and says, "You never told me that you were such a religious person." He leans over to her and whispers, "You never told me that your father is a pharmacist!". **************** For more information, please visit our website or contact us at 613 692-1424 or info@renewal.ca Copyright © 2005, Renewal Technologies Inc. All rights reserved.
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