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We’ve all heard the phrase, “You get more of what you focus
on.” In the Hawaiian shamanism system, known as Huna, they
teach the principle of blessing. For instance if you want to
become a more creative individual every time you come across
something that represents ‘creativity’ you would bless it.
Let’s say you were walking down the street and you saw an
artist painting. You could verbally compliment him or you
could simply mentally bless his creativity with your
intention which could be something like, “This is
creativity, I bless him for it.”

By doing this regularly you condition your mind to go in a
certain direction: “Look for examples of creativity in the
world that I can bless.” An interesting effect of this
practice is that the more you focus on finding positive
qualities to bless, the more you discover!

In therapeutic settings clients often come along complaining
of behaviours they don’t like and want to get rid of. Now if
the therapist were to have the focus of believing that the
clients behaviour was indeed unnecessary he may focus on
this aspect and have the client discover where this
behaviour started. Discovering why he has chosen to adopt
this behaviour and so on.

But what if the therapist had the focus of, “Every behaviour
has a positive intention behind it.” Just with this shift in
direction could result in a much more pleasant and useful
change in the client. By discovering the positive intention
behind behaviours, adding in new behaviours, choices and
flexibility would more likely create a generative,
positively focused direction for the clients mind to go in.

This kind of generative change-work tends to create a more
pervasive shift in the clients model of the world because
they have made a change that has added more choice and
flexibility and so they think, “ahhh if I can add choices to
this area of my life, why not get more flexible in other
areas?!”

Another interesting point about directions is that it’s more
powerful to setup a direction that is flowing, a process,
rather than a static change. Think about the following and
notice which statement is more powerful, “I am confident”,
or “I am becoming more confident.”

Because one of the minds natural functions is to go in a
direction, change-work becomes more powerful if you set up a
process as the direction. “I am confident” is static,
whereas, “I am becoming more confident” is a process that
re-enforces itself.

Knowing this ‘master key’ can make your use of change
technologies, such as the tools of Neuro-Linguistic
Programming (NLP) work all the more effectively.

So as you begin to think about the directions you want your
mind to go in, doesn’t it just make sense to use tools that
re-program your mind to *automatically* go in the direction
you want to go in?

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