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The usual way in which this idea of changing your state by changing your physiology is done is to stand up straight and pretend you're a successful person, with variations thereof.
That's ok in an NLP training or a practice group; but you can have SO much more fun with this one!
Just let go, have a go, allow yourself to enjoy this and please, do try (!) to have some fun ...
LOL ...
Alright.
Let's go.
Now, stop reading this article as "yourself" (whoever that may be), and instead, read now like ...
... a Scottish ballet dancer.
Hey!
What happened there?
Did you notice something?
Sit back and reflect on what just happened to you like ..
... a Japanese Zen master.
Should that cause problems, stop, get up and get yourself a drink, but make sure to walk like ...
... a high class Brasilian prostitute.
When you got your drink, you might pause for a moment and reflect on how it would be if you took a drink now like ...
... an Ethiopian goat herd, aged 12.
If you want to be all analytical, you can note how even just thinking about it, as a beginner, without REALLY stepping into THAT and walking the proverbial few steps in another entity's mocassins, CHANGES THINGS.
How you breathe, for example.
What your body feels like.
How colours become brighter or dimmer, how the periphery expands or contracts, changes in what you hear and how you hear, and what you think, as well.
Or you can let all of that go, step right into it and just have fun with this pattern.
Endlessly so!
You can loiter under a street light like Romeo.
Drive your car like Don Juan.
Walk up the stairs like Rambo.
Walk back down like Britney Spears.
Or you can just be a little more general and watch the world through your window like a photographer would Or a cinematographer. Or a painter. Or a very famous painter.
You can peel potatoes like a Roman soldier. Lean against the wall like the star of a West End show. Queue in the bank like a bank robber. Shower like Madonna. Dance like someone who just invented the cure for cancer. Touch a tree like an Australian witch doctor. Or like the old man next door.
You can argue like a Renaissance composer. Or like a ten year old chess prodigy. Or like someone who has just learned they won the lottery, or like a virgin in love.
Watching TV whilst sitting like a rich man is good fun. Or as a very powerful woman. If you watch it as a small child, even the most inane programmes have something to offer.
Brush your teeth like a Greek philosopher. Comb your hair like someone who used to be bald, and had hair transplants approximately 3 months ago.
You could solve a problem like someone who loves solving problems; like someone who is completely intuitive; or like someone who is 17, has curly red hair, freckles and isn't altogether sure about their sexuality at this point.
The more playful you can be with it, the better the results; it's funny how that works, and worth remembering.
So this is the "Physiology Is The Royal Road Into State " game - but what does this sort of thing do to you, long term?
Well, for one thing it certainly engages parts of your neurology you may never have thought to engage before.
It can allow aspects to come out and play, and that's always good for the totality.
The "Physiology Is The Royal Road Into State" game will most certainly improve your mental flexibility, your intelligence, and most likely, energy flow in your body. Especially with old entrained habits of physical movement, feeling and thought, this game will "set you free", help you unstick yourself and find more elegance in all your movements, including movements of consciousness.
You can use it to briefly become a person you are encountering; that's good for rapport but also for knowing more about them. Helpful to charm them, or to fight them.
This "Physiology Is The Royal Road Into State" game, if played with a level of lightness and the desire to enjoy yourself, has much to offer, so by all means, remember this, and look at your next web page as an Armenian war widow, the president of the United States, or as a highly enlightened being from another planet.
The choice is yours!
:-)
Dr Silvia Hartmann
June 2009
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