The Renewal Times

January, 2010.
ISSN 1705-3773 The Renewal Times

The Renewal Times is a publication of Renewal Technologies Inc. and is edited by Roger Ellerton.

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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:

• Thought for the day
• Health Notes
• Upcoming Seminars
• Feature Article
• Humour
• More Information

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Thought for the Day
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A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

         Mahatma Gandhi

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Health Notes
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Curb Hunger Pangs

Snacking on whole-grain bread dipped in olive oil can help reduce your hunger pangs. Reason: Olive oil is rich in oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat. Upon reaching the small intestine, oleic acid triggers the production of oleoylethanolamide (OEA), another fatty substance. OEA then finds its way to nerve endings that carry a hunger-curbing message to the brain.

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Sweeten Your Breath with These Herbs

Parsley, basil, and cilantro contain the green plant pigment chlorophyll, which is a powerful breath freshener.

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Make a Difference in Someone's Life
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To help yourself or someone you know to move forward creating the life each of you desire, consider some of the self-help material at Amazon.com and Nightingale-Conant.

To improve the quality and effectiveness of your communication with yourself and others, consider Live Your Dreams Let Reality Catch Up: NLP and Common Sense for Coaches, Managers and You -- a world-wide top selling NLP book.

Coming Soon! Parents' Handbook: NLP & Common Sense Guide for Family Well-Being will be available February 2010.

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Take Action in 2010
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My e-book, Live Your Dreams Let Reality Catch Up: 5 Step Action Plan, can help you gain clarity and have a plan of action to achieve what you desire. Check it out now.

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Nightingale Conant
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Looking for featured authors, such as Anthony Robbins, Dr. Joan Borysenko, Bernie S. Siegel, Byron Katie, Brian Tracy, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, and others? You can find them at Nightingale Conant.

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Now for something different
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We like to support graduates of our programs. One of our graduates, David Dickinson with his wife Jennifer, started a new business called Clean & Sharp Inc. Simply put, if you live or are visiting Burlington or Oakville, Ontario, Canada and need your sports equipment cleaned or skates sharpened, then take time to visit their new store. For location and more information, see www.cleanandsharp.com.

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Upcoming Seminars / Workshops
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We are pleased to offer the following public workshops/seminars in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada:

Introductory NLP Evening

January 13, 14, 2010 7:00pm - 9:00pm. Because of demand, we are offering this introductory presentation on two successive evenings. Pick the one that works best for you.

Please come as our guest. Invite a friend to come with you. Registration is required so that we can reserve a seat for you. E-mail your name and the number of people attending to info@renewal.ca. For more information, please see www.renewal.ca/freeseminar.htm.

During this event, we will have a book signing for Live Your Dreams Let Reality Catch Up: NLP and Common Sense for Coaches, Managers and You and offer you a special discounted price.

NLP Practitioner Training

Three week-ends: February 5 - 7, 26 - 28, March 5 - 7, 2010.

NLP Master Practitioner Training

Four weekends: March 26 - 28, April 16 - 18, April 30, May 1 - 2 and May 28 - 30, 2010.

Dis-cover Yourself: Get More Out of Life

A program designed to help you get more out of life through discovering who you are at many levels -- your place in the world, your mission in life -- and to inspire you to take action to pursue your mission with passion and joy in a way that is respectful of others.

January 23, 2010. Discover Yourself -- Find Out What's Holding You Back

For our most recent schedule and a description of these workshops/seminars, please visit www.renewal.ca/neurolinguistic.htm

Click on the following link for the location of our NLP Training Centre in Ottawa (Stittsville), Ontario, Canada.

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Feature Article
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This article may be reproduced, provided it is reproduced in full, including author bio and a link to renewal.ca. If you republish this or any of our other articles without including the author's name, bio and a link to renewal.ca, you will be in violation of copyright law and sent an invoice.

It's Digital not Auditory Digital

By Roger Ellerton Phd, ISP, CMC, Renewal Technologies Inc. www.renewal.ca

We access information through our senses: see (visual), hear (auditory), feel (kinesthetic), taste (gustatory) and smell (olfactory). To process and store this information, we make pictures in our minds of what we believe we have seen, sounds of what we believe we have heard, etc. In NLP, the different ways that we process and represent information in our mind are called representational systems and correspond to the five senses.

John Grinder and Richard Bandler, the developers of NLP, realized that we also process and store information in words and referred to this sixth representational system as auditory digital - splitting auditory into two components - auditory tonal (sound) and auditory digital (words). Thus in the NLP literature, auditory digital has come to represent a modality that is devoid of the senses and focuses on discrete words, facts, figures and logic.

As it turns out, visual also can be split into two components - visual analog (shape and colour) and visual digital (symbols, formulae) - Bolstad, R. and Hamblett, M. "Visual Digital: Modality of the Future?", NLP World, Vol 6, No. 1, March 1999. The visual digital component often gets rolled into and referred to as auditory digital. Visual digital and auditory digital are different, yet they are similar as formulae and the manipulation of symbols form a language and express thought just as words do. To be strictly correct, the combined digital components of visual and auditory should be referred to simply as digital rather than auditory digital.

I believe it's important to be mindful that digital has two components - auditory digital and visual digital. The vast majority of NLP practitioners and trainers do not make this distinction - I suspect because they are not aware of it. In fact, I only recently became aware of the idea of visual digital. With a PhD in statistics, I could easily visualize and manipulate formulae in my mind, yet always felt a little uneasy saying that I had a strong visual preference because I have the hardest time selecting colours. Thus visual digital, for me, is a very useful concept and makes sense, as I now realize that I have a strong visual digital component and a weak visual analog component.

How should digital be referred to during trainings or when conversing with other NLP practitioners - digital or auditory digital? Since the vast majority of NLP practitioners are familiar with the term auditory digital, I suggest we continue to use this term, while also mentioning there is a very important visual digital component and that the most appropriate term is digital. In this way, we can build a strong bridge from how the term auditory digital has been used to the correct term digital.

For a description of the visual (analog), auditory tonal, kinesthetic and digital representation systems, please see NLP Representational Systems.

Author: Roger Ellerton PhD, CMC is a certified NLP trainer, coach, certified management consultant and the founder and managing partner of Renewal Technologies. He is the author of the book Live Your Dreams Let Reality Catch Up: NLP and Common Sense for Coaches, Managers and You. Available from Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Chapters.indigo.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Barnes and Noble and other fine book retailers.

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Humour
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A dog’s guide to a more fulfilling life (continued from previous newsletter renewal.ca/newsletter0912.html):

• On warm days, stop to lie on your back on the grass.
• On hot days, drink lots of water and lie under a shady tree.
• When you're happy, dance around and wag your entire body.
• No matter how often you're scolded, don't buy into the guilt thing and pout...run right back and make friends.
• Delight in the simple joy of a long walk.
• Eat with gusto and enthusiasm. Stop when you've had enough.
• Be loyal.
• Never pretend to be something you're not.
• If what you want lies buried, dig until you find it.
• When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by and nuzzle them gently.

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More Information
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For more information, please visit our NLP-based website or contact us at 613 692-1424 or info@renewal.ca

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