Short Stories with useful lessons from Neuro Linguistic Programming

I am definitely a curious birdie who fetches strange facts, random YouTube videos etc for widening certain part of my brain but what I experienced in a NLP Program by Mr. Braham Sharoha was something mind boggling.

I will write down this piece for everyone to get the gist of a 3-hr discussion and further recommend all to connect with him, attend his sessions and dig deeper into the seeds I am planting through this article (which were planted in me by Mr. Sharoha himself).

Story of the Chinese Bamboo

A farmer heard about Chinese Bamboo and how it’s demand is growing and will make him rich so he planted the same on 90% of his fields. For 5 years, he kept on feeding them nutrition & water but saw no yield at all. Everyone in the village called him stupid. After 5 years, Chinese Bamboo started growing and growing really fast like 6cm each day. After few months, Bamboo was 100 ft.

If you feel stuck, be patient and just continuously pour yourself with inspiration & kindness, your brilliance will soon pop out to touch its zenith.

Story of the Tiger

One fine sunny day, on a stranded island, a boy faced the Tiger, his thought sensors intimated the HPA glands in his body which secreted Cortisol (stopped his immune system, defense mechanism, central nervous system) and Adrenaline (caused increased blood flow in his veins) and he started being in disease (DIS-EASE). This physiology led to his frozen state and he suffered even before Tiger could attack him.

In daily life, we are creating multiple paper tigers and putting our stable state of mind to uneasiness.

We all have an animal brain which knows 2P’s and 5F’s only i.e, Pain & Pleasure and Freeze, Fight, Flight, Food & Fornicate. This part of our brain comes from the time when we only had to hunt our food, eat and have intercourse. Animal brain in today’s time is the home to our procrastination, lingering on the sailed ships & all the other unreasonable ideas that sometimes start jumping in our heads.

Story of an ordinary to the extraordinary

What is it that an ordinary man Mr. Modi is leading our nation, extending our national hands to international institutions without even studying any language other than his mother tongue? On the other hand, many extraordinaries are left to play as puppets to media.

There is a concept known as Forward Pacing. Visualization, rhythm and sensation are three important aspects to your positive affirmations- VAK (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetics). Being in the present if you are able to create an image of future by adding the elements of audio and sense to it, and you continue to anchor it for 21 days; no force will be able to stop you from turning your visions to reality. Our Mind anchors to the memories/moments/stories which are driven by MUSIC- 'Moving uniquely with sound & colors I love'. Hence, paint a beautiful scene from a future and live through it daily to reach your desired destinations.

Story of an aspiring girl

A girl wished to be the most successful and thus, requested her parents to send her to college where she could learn, compete and perform better than her peers. Her parents sent her to a camp with world’s successful personalities where she was completely overshadowed and ignored. But slowly and steadily she understood the art of influencing herself and by matching the traits of those present there and mirroring their lifestyles, she made a diamond out of herself. Beauty of this story is that she became even more successful than the guys present there since, she mirrored and matched the qualities which were true to her and her heart. Heart is the best brain we have. Probably that is the reason we hear, ‘Think from your heart’, more often.

To influence others, it is extremely important for you to get into the conversation that goes on in their head. Next time you are giving a pitch, mirror the person sitting in front of you and you will be able to set him on your frequency.