Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Thoughts and Emotions

Zen says:

"Thoughts lead to other thoughts and the whole stream of thoughts turns into what we call an emotion"
John Daido Loori - Cave of Tigers

NLP says that our state, our emotional state, is a result of a series of thoughts, that we have. Each thought may be a self-talk (things that we say to ourselves), or a picture, or a sound, or a feeling or behavior. When we have run through this series of thoughts, we end up in a certain emotional state.

In NLP we call each thought an internal representation, and we call the series of thoughts a strategy.

By tracking and noticing the thoughts or internal representations we have, we can begin to change them in order to reach a different emotional state, or let them go entirely, to reach enlightenment!

Shawn Carson
NLP Training in New York

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