Today we will continue discussing ideas that we use at the Anxiety Control Center. Then tomorrow we will post more tips from Jacob Krueger. So you find two different approaches in the next few days. Please let me know what you think of adding information in this way. Is it helpful or confusing by sending me an email, just click on the word here to go to Audrey’s email.
Another favorite technique we use at the Anxiety Control Center, is a quick change technique used with Neuro-linguistic Programming. It is called a “map across”. Where we borrow the positive feelings we want from one memory and put it into the way we’d like to feel “new memory”.
In this technique we use a light trance state to actually shift the positive “I CAN do it” feelings onto the task we were feeling “I can’t.” The “I can’t” feelings are one of the underlying problems that cause procrastination.
Using this technique feels like you are changing the scenery of your mind from unfriendly, cold, blustery, uncomfortable, scary, and barren, to a place that feels cozy, exciting, fresh and comfortable. And using this skill of the mind, all of a sudden you feel, and see and even hear the words that cause you to want to move forward. It sometimes seems like you can hardly wait to do what you had been procrastinating about. It becomes something we really want to move towards.
Now of course, as you might be thinking this can’t work this quickly. Well in a way you are correct, it is necessary to clear out old negative beliefs, in order for this technique to “stick” and last. But it is great to get a glimpse of what is possible. And to know that it is possible to get this type of change quickly. We’ll discuss this more in the teleseminar coming in January 2010.
The mapping across skill is actually easy to learn and will be discussed in the Teleseminar in January, and taught in the home study course that is coming up in the February.
The interesting thing about procrastination is that at some point you will do task at hand. What we are doing in the “re-programing the mind to stop procrastination” workshop is speeding up the process. We want to get your strategy for not doing something, your strategy for “doing” something and then use the “doing it” strategy as one of the techniques to shorten the process from idea to action.
GIFT: Everyone who has sent questions will receive an invitation to our upcoming seminar “Re-programing the Mind to Stop Procrastination“. For those of you new to teleseminars, this is an online event that you can listen to by phone or on your computer. It will be given January 2010. Details will be emailed to you shortly.
Attendees will have the opportunity to interact “live” with Dr Audrey Sussman.
There are two ways to be invited:
1. Sign up by going to the upper right side of this page, put you name and email and click on the “sign in here” tab. You’ll also receive a powerful yet easy to learn exercise for calming your mind.
2. Send a question to Audrey, the link blue link, takes you to her email address. Just write down your question and your name and email, and send it off. We’ll look forward to interacting with you “in person”.