I used to be a favorite student in literature class because I kept using metaphors.
I was fascinated with them and thought they had such rich meanings. I was able to interpret and analyze them clearly and creatively, until I discovered neurolinguistic programming – and that was where my world really opened up.
Did you know that your mind is metaphorical? That you tend to think more easily in metaphors and images rather than words alone? Even as you are reading this, you are
forming mental ‘impressions’. These impressions can be visual, auditory or kinesthetic in nature, and you most definitely can create shifts in them.
Remember the time when you wanted to gross someone out at the dining table? You’d pepper your words with graphic images of maggots and roaches. But think about it –
you were literally using language to affect someone’s emotional state.
Now, if the mind was so powerful, you could change things negatively, how about creating change for the positive? If you could imagine daily that everything in your
life was going to be perfect and take one simple action step every day that could...