NLP3 ( neurolinguistic programming) in a trance-cultural approach

A TRANCE-CULTURAL EFFECTIVE APPROACH TO THE ELEMENTS OF REALITY

Introduction

What are the basic elements of reality?

Can we divide our reality into smaller elements?

Can we use these elements in order to analyze the world around us and interact effectively?

For centuries mankind has had these kinds of questions, because finding answers would indeed be very useful...

As in physics where the understanding of basic forces permits the building of anything and so an engineer can't ignore them, the same goes for psychological sciences.

Understanding basic elements can open up pathways to better living, effective therapy, effective communication and relationships.

The use of the Trance-cultural model

TRANCE-CULTURAL is a new model. In this research, on how different cultures have studied the so-called "elements", we find an interesting model on how effective trance-cultural work can be done.

Effective Trance-Cultural work is a way of creating new techniques.

The expert in trance-cultural techniques is very effective, because he relies on many sources at the same time.

People, as Cultures, are different from one another: understanding cultural models means understanding different people in an easier way.

An effective trance-cultural methodology puts together two different models, finding similarities and a basis for evolution.

Using effective Trance-cultural methodology we can CREATE new techniques.

We can call this process "SYNERGY Creation".

For such a process to take place, we don't have to have goals. We will just get what is created from merging.

If we have some ink, we have nothing; if we have some paper, we have nothing. But if we have some ink and a piece of paper, then, we can have words, or a draft.

The sum of different elements is many more times the value of the individual parts.

Model 1 for a new trance-cultural synergy: The western elements

Anciently used metaphors to describe realities. In western ancient philosophy, classically we have 4 elements: Fire, Air, Water and Earth.

Fire and Water are said to be the "originators" of Air, and Earth is the direction on which these elements affect their impact.

Indians put a fifth element ETHER, symbolizing the consciousness and THE NON SUBSTANCE ORIGINATOR OF ALL!

ACTUALITY OF ANCIENT IDEAS METAPHORS AND PSYCHOLOGY

What is important is to understand that these elements are just METAPHORS for psychological realities.

The ancients used elements in the same way actual psychologists use "inner child" or "Parts".

When we use "inner child" we don't want to say that a person wants a little child to be born!

It is METAPHORICAL language.

Maybe in the future, in the year 3000, people will believe that in the year 2000 psychologists believed that people were in different physical pieces!

One of the first modern researcher to have understood this was Carl Gustav Jung, who said that alchemy was nothing else than psychology!

Through the use of elements, as for modern psychologists, the ancients where able to relieve pain, solve psychological problems etc.

Model 2 for a trance-cultural synergy: NLP & NLP3

A new modern technique uses a similar concept to solve problems. We can link the idea of elements to the modern sensory channel of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming). NLP has rediscovered the power of elements. Because ancient metaphors were no better with the actual world, it used the idea of "sensory channels". Practically NLP says that we use, for representing ideas in our mind, our sensory channels, and everything happening in our mind can be represented through sensory channels.

>From a neurological point of view, the main difficulty is the right definition of what a "sense" is, because we have more than just 5 senses in our body!

Beyond 5 original senses, we have the sense of balance, the sense of movement etc...

Even the 5 original senses can be split: we have different receptors for cold and warm and for hurting.

SYNERGY

The Trance-Cultural model offers the possibility of putting two systems together.

For example, NLP is sometimes critized for the ambiguity behind the concept of sensory channels. From a trance-cultural point of view, maybe the neurology of NLP must be completed, but we believe in the results it can bring because of the similarity with another tradition. These two traditions are separated, but both arrived at the same practical results and techniques.

The Trance-Cultural model will expand these models in order to find new applications.

We believe synergy will bring us to a new level of reality.

PRACTICAL EXAMPLES OF NEW TECHNIQUES

Merging the two systems together we can multiply our way of operating:

- Eliminate past negative emotions

- Go into the past and rebalance our sensory channels

Sensory Channel Balance

In NLP, it is said that lack of a sensorial channel can lead to some problems. We can use a technique linked with an element (like a sound technique) to make this sensorial channel more active in the person. While you are in a mental position, see beneath you the scene you want to change and send a sound linked to the element you think more useful to change the situation. After, go on an emotional level through the event (always accompanying yourself with the sound) and come back to the present.

Often this mixed technique will erase unwanted memories.

What is even more powerful is that you can use this technique with IMPREGNATION concepts. It means you could charge something with the needed element.

Fascination and use of elements.

If we understand which elements are lacking in a person we can fascinate (attract) this person with these elements.

These elements will put the person into a trance. This is also the basis of multi-sensorial hypnosis.

Model 3 for a new trance-cultural synergy: The Chinese Elements

>From western elements, in our trance-cultural quest, we can also observe Eastern Elements.

THE SECRETS OF THE ELEMENTS

Elements in China, Alchemy and "Kinaesthetic" in NLP In NLP there is a wide use of the concept "Kinaesthetic" We find that the concept of elements developed by Chinese medicine can be very useful in finding more specificity to what in NLP is called "kinaesthetic"

THE CHINESE THEORY

Five elements theory

1 - Wood: corresponds to spleen and to the following emotions = negative: rage / positive: dynamicness

2 - Fire: corresponds to heart and to the following emotions = negative: cruelty / positive: love

3 - Earth: corresponds to liver and to the following emotions = negative: unbalance / positive: balance

4 - Metal: corresponds to the lungs and to the following emotions = negative: depression / positive : courage-expression

5 - Water: corresponds to the kidneys and to the following emotions = negative: anxiety / positive : self esteem

With this scheme, we can give a new look to the idea of "kinaesthetic feelings" and find new ways of healing in NLP. This is the path of NLP3.

SUBMODALITIES AND ELEMENTS -

PATTERN ENHANCED WITH EASTERN ELEMENTS

We can go further in our analysis:

NLP has a concept called "sub-modality". Sub-modalities are defined as the distinctions we make within each representational system, the qualities of our internal representations (little/big , sound/silence , colours, rhythms etc.).

Some sub-modalities are called "critical": changing this kind of sub-modality we change the quality of internal representations.

A technique called "Swish" SWISH works on different critical sub-modalities in order to create change.

The swish pattern uses rapid-fire sub-modality shifts to associate two mental constructions so that one automatically leads to the other.

The "swish pattern" is one of the simplest of sub-modality work. The idea is to rapidly swap the sub-modalities of two representations (images, sounds, or feelings) so that the first becomes a stimulus for the second.

Eastern Medicine also has something similar. Because each elements has a positive and a negative side it is very interesting to extract the so called "sub-modalities" of each one: we can in this way create a positive path of transformation from negative to positive.

Changing the sub-modalities of each element from sub-modalities associated with negative ideas to sub-modalities associated with positive ideas is very strong.

For example, the earth has two polarities: cruelty and love; the first is normally closed, while the second is open.

Using the concepts of swish in this context can bring to the following trance-cultural technique.

ELEMENTARY SWISH - A TECHNIQUE

"Swish" is a term belonging to NLP symbolising fast change

1 - for each element go to the respective emotion

2 - change the sub-modalities along with emotions

Repeated many times, this exercise will bring a positive transformation to the whole personality.

In this way we have created a new technique not existing until now. This technique has proved itself to be extremely powerful.

This exercise, repeated many times will help in eliminating negative feelings and in building a better personality.

While the original Swish pattern has the main aim of changing habits, this new pattern goes even deeper, and makes it impossible even to form negative emotional habits.

A NEW SYNERGY BETWEEN WESTERN AND EASTERN ELEMENTS

WESTERN ELEMENTS

Also in west there exists elements.

Western elements are Fire - Water - Air - Earth

These elements can be referred to body parts:

Head - Fire - Volition

Lungs - Air - Arguing

Abdomen - Water - Interiority

Feet - Earth - Operating

Franz Bardon describes very well the work with elements, that is a basis for using their power.

Each element corresponds to a psychological type and many other things. The elements are archetypes and symbols of our mind.

We can use sound power to transmit the signification of the elements. Traditionally the western elements can be made corresponding each to a letter:

Head - SH - Red - expanding warm

Lungs - A - azur - light

Abdomen - M - Blue - cold contracting

Feet - Ae - Brown - heavy

We can use sound for correcting some unbalance in the body. We ask a person how he defines his pain (cold, warm, Light, heavy). After the person gives us an idea we can operate.

For example, a person with a feeling he defines as "cold" could at a certain point be treated with SH (Warm).

In our experience this kind of work eliminates all kinds of pain very fast.

Trance-cultural work can also include other philosophies; for example what is called "magic" in western cultures.

In magic, it is habitual to draw protection circles. Using a TC (trance-Cultural) approach we can find similar ideas in western philosophies.

The following exercise integrates all these ideas

PSYCHO-MAGICAL exercise utilizing western elements

Close your eyes

Imagine drawing a circle around you.

Think about something that bothers you.

Give this problem a shape

Imagine a beam of light arriving from above, giving you energy

Push the problem with its shape a little further from you

Draw a circle around you, leaving the problem with its shape outside you

Decide what kind of energy you need to destroy such a problem

Imagine that a light descends from above, passes through you and through your hand going directly onto the problem with its shape and destroying it.

You can repeat this exercise if you want.

With time you will find many problems will vanish

WESTERN ELEMENTS AND INTERNAL ALCHEMY

Because each element corresponds to a side of our mental reality, we can bring them together.

This is what is called "Alchemical Transformation and Transmutation". For bringing them together we can use imagination.

This kind of exercise requires knowledge. The result is the creating of a more balanced personality. This process can be conducted along a path with three steps; with each step we move nearer to a more balanced personality. The whole process can be represented with ten points. 4 (the elements) in the first row, 3 in the second, 2 in the third and in the last, they come together.

Our Trance-Cultural path has also investigated these alchemical paths, often hidden by secret societies. The process is parallel to what in China is called the "five elements fusion".

CHINESE ELEMENTS AND INTERNAL ALCHEMY

Also Chinese elements can be brought together for creating more balance. Chinese elements can be visualized near the corresponding organs and after brought together at the navel.

1 - Open your earth and bring near it, its energy and emotional quality

2 - Bring the energy and emotional quality of the kidney near them

3 - Bring the earth and kidney's energy together

4 - Bring the energy and emotional quality of the spleen near it (right side under ribcage)

5 - Bring the energy and emotional quality of the lungs near them (left side under ribcage)

6 - Bring together the energy of the spleen and of the lungs

7 - Bring together also the centering energy of the liver

All the energies go together creating a PEARL.

The process we have outlined here is very parallel to what happens in western traditional alchemy.

THE SINESTHESIC PATTERN MOLECULE AND THE ELEMENTS FUSION: another example of a TRANCE-CULTURAL NEW TECHNIQUE We can also find a similitude between fusion and what in traditional NLP is called the SINESTHESIC PATTERN MOLECULE.

This pattern is used in NLP for a problem attitude or belief. This Attitude is considered as a negative molecule that is divided in its main components (corresponding to the sensory channels). After the components are brought back together.

With this kind of work There is a strong similarity with the concept of the pearl and of the elements. For discovering this similitude we used a principle of Trance Cultural search: practice. We discovered in our body the similarity between the two techniques!

DESCRIPTION OF THE CLASSICAL NLP PATTERN

We will describe it here in the simplest possible way:

- Put the negative emotions on your right side down and transform them into positive (motivation)

- Put the negative thoughts on your left side down and transform them into positive

- Put negative voices on your left

- Put old images on upper left and transform them in:

- what you want (image) on upper right

- Put sounds on the right

- Bring them all together in the same way as when you are fine.

We have purposely simplified the technique in order to show the similarity with the Fusion of the Five Elements. Both techniques touch different aspects but can be usefully combined. We have examined many ways of combining them.

METAPROGRAMS AND CHINESE ELEMENTS

Meta-Programs are a separated nucleus in NLP techniques. We think that meta-programs could be helpful seen from a five-elements and body part perspective. In this way we use again the Trance-Cultural perspective.

The usefulness of this perspective is the possibility of finding which kind of psychosomatic problem each person presenting a particular metaprogram could suffer. We have created a little table.

Body Parts

Relationship Filter:

Abdomen: Match

Head: Mismatching

People using AV sensorial channel are the most Mismatching