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Thoughts forwarded to me.

Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say.
When someone would ask him how he was doing, would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!”
He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Michael, “I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?”
Michael replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood of you can choose to be in a bad mood.
I choose to be in a good mood.
Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or … I can choose to learn from it.
Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or … I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.”
“Yeah, right, it’s not that easy, “I protested … “Yes, it is.” Michael said.
“Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood.
The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live your life.”
I reflected on what Michael said. Soon thereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
Several years later, I heard the Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.
After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.
I saw Michael about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, “If I were any better, I’d be twins. Wanna see my scars?”
I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.
“The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon to be born daughter,” Michael replied. “Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or … I could choose to die. I chose to live.”
“Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?” I asked.
Michael continued, “… the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I say the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared.
In their eyes, I read “he’s a dead man; I knew I needed to take action.”
“What did you do?” I asked.
“Well, there was a beg burly nurse shouting questions at me,” said Michael,
“She asked if I was allergic to anything”
“Yes, I replied” The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply I took a deep breath and yelled, “Gravity.”
Over their laughter, I told them, “I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead. “Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.
“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will worry about itself, each day has enough trouble of its own.” After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
You have two choices now:
1. Do nothing and keep getting what you are already getting out of life.
2. Forward these thoughts to other people. You know the choice I made.

Enjoy each day, each breath and mostly … each and every friend.

We at Prestigious Minds believe that everyone has the ability to learn and become aware of your positive, infinite, choices. We utilize Hypnosis and NLP, to help you achieve your goals, guiding you to new understandings that will ultimately allow you the positive choices to move forward, while at the same time giving yourself freedom. Freedom to be who you want to be, alleviating limiting perspectives, and helping you attain the tools necessary for a positive change in your life. Are you ready to be the best that you can be?  Prestigious Minds is here to help you achieve your goals.  We implement hypnosis, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), and Reiki sessions.  For your convenience there are pages for Hypnosis FAQ’s, and Reiki, please visit them if you have any questions. 

The Practitioners at Prestigious Minds are Certified Hypnotherapist, Master NLP Practitioners, and Usui Reiki Masters.  Our intent is to provide a comforting atmosphere working one on one with you, to help you achieve your goals, increasing self-esteem, giving you more choices to become motivated in a positive direction that is right for you. 

Hypnosis and NLP is empowering for you, because it gives you skills that you can use for the rest of your life, where a person can be free of a phobias, overcome panic attacks, stress, anxiety, or lose weight and enhance your self esteem, while giving you choices to live a healthy, happy, positive life, which in turn gives you freedom of mind.

“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

So what problems can NLP and hypnosis help with?

For a start, a problem is only a frame (a perspective). All frames can be changed, so NLP and hypnosis can be used to develop a more resourceful perspective on ANY problem.

But that may not be what you are asking. Ask yourself if you know people with the sorts of problems you have in mind. If so, does one person deal with these issues better than another? Does one person heal more effectively than another? From an NLP perspective, one of the things we are interested in is what are the differences in belief, attitude, resources between those individuals and how can we assist the one to develop the positive resources of the other.

But that may not be what you are asking. Here is a list of problems that hypnosis is commonly sought help for (though it is by no means exhaustive)

Betty Erickson’s Self Hypnosis Technique