Better Faster, Stronger

I loved the $6 million dollar man.  I like the idea of coming back better, stronger and faster.

Having special powers is cool too.  And it had special sound effects.  That was also cool.

And having this show as a story about adversity, might help you get through the day..
What would you be able to do just a little bit better if you had some of that bionic background sound playing in your mind during the most effective moments.  Would you be able to try that on now?
Have a glimpse of the show to anchor this sound and idea of what this might be like...

Is there a hint of a difference when you add some sounds to the background, the sub-foreground of your life?

Virtual reality is coming and its going to cost less than $6million dollars. Facebook already bought the idea for 2 billion. I was trying on the new touch controller for the Oculus Rift. I tested out 'Bullet Train'. It has some violence would be like saying winter may come. These games are going to change the world and cause people to learn better, faster and the more effective ways to do something which does equate to some kind of strength.

Until virtual reality become more mainstream, we have to just wait. Or, we can use the virtual reality machine of our imaginations to reprogram our minds to learn better, faster and stronger.

Emotions and silly, cartoony visuals can go a long way.


Patrick Stewart talks about his dad having PTSD

Patrick Stewart talks about his dad having PTSD

Patrick Stewart from Star Trek:The Next Generation
Speaks about his father having PTSD

'The work that I do in campaigns about violence towards women, particularly domestic violence, is something that grew out of my own childhood experience. And I'm associated particularly with one organization in England called Refuge."

'Which has since the 1970s provided, under many other services, safe houses for women and children. And I mean SAFE houses. Where they can go and feel perhaps for the first time in years secure with their children. Refuge is a great organization, now a few months ago I did do this event called "The Million Man Pledge" which was co-sponsored by the United Nations and it was, it is, a great campaign which is based on the belief that the people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact men. It's in our hands to stop violence towards women. So I do what I do...

So I do what I do in my mother's name, because I couldn't help her then. Now I can. But since, and I've talked often about this I'm on record about my childhood, but last year I learned things about my father that I didn't know and my elder brother didn't know. And that was in 1940 due to his experiences in France with the British Expeditionary Force my father was suffering from what was then called severe shell shock and that's what I read at his notes at the Imperial War Museum in England. We now know it as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

And we also know that there are solders all over the world, here in the United States and in the United Kingdom who are returning from combat zones with a serious condition of post-traumatic stress disorder. Now we know what it is and we know how to deal with it. In 1940 it was just shell shock. And basically solider were being told pull yourself together, get a grip on yourself and get out there and be a man. Well it has put into, and an expert in this condition who works with a charity, another organization I am now happy to be a part of of called Combat Stress, has said to me what your father had in 1940 because he was never treated, never left him. And all the condition of your childhood that you have described to me are classic symptoms of veterans who were suffering from this serious
physiological and physical illness. So I work for Refuge for my mother and I work for combat
stress for my father in equal measure.

Thank you so much, beautiful story. And my dear, are you okay? You are? Yeah, the thing that happened, its past and it was just a point of accepting that it was okay that it happened. Yeah. That it wasn't -- because one thing I've noticed there's still that shaming of the women. Yeah. So that -- yeah - speech really just finally let me say it's okay that that happened and I can move on. So I really appreciate it, I really do. As a child I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say "Mrs. Stewart, you must have done something to provoke him. Mrs. Stewart it takes two to make an argument." Wrong. Wrong! My mother did nothing to provoke that, and even if she had violence is never, ever a choice that a man should make! And you know... Guys, thank you!'

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Richard Bandler – Fear Removal Strategy

Richard Bandler – Fear Removal Strategy

Steve Andreas is an American psychotherapist and author specializing in Neuro-linguistic programming.
On his blog he did a post about the Richard Bandler appearance on the Kelly and Michael show.
Bandler does a phobia removal strategy that is super quick and masterfully executed.
Steve Andreas shares his thoughts on it...

1:20
Bandler’s instruction: “Take that picture, shrink it down to the size of a quarter—prrrrup—and blink it black and white”—is accompanied by quick and definitive hand gestures. “Shrink it down to the size of a quarter” makes the image so small that it will elicit a much less intense emotional response, and moving it lower in the visual field will make it less important. “Black and white” takes the color out of it, reducing its emotional impact further, and “blinking it” repeatedly interrupts the image and any remaining response.

Screen Shot 2015-11-11 at 4.24.23 PMAs Bandler does this, his left hand is behind Michael’s back, and it looks as if he is anchoring Michael’s response on his back or shoulder. He continues to keep his arm in this position until 3:30 when the video is interrupted by a commercial break.

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Bandler says, “Clear your mind for a minute,” as his right hand waves in front of Michael’s face, insuring that any images he may be making are wiped away, followed by “Look at me.”

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These two commands are followed by, “Now look at the picture and try to be afraid. “Try” presupposes that it will be difficult to be afraid. Michael looks a little surprised, congruently saying, “I’m good.”

A little later, Bandler says, “Now that the picture’s out of your mind,” presupposing that it is out of his mind. All nice work, flawlessly delivered.

Bandler then tests by asking Michael to make two pictures, one of him being terrified, and the other of him going over and touching a snake, and choose which he’d rather be. Michael says he prefers being terrified—which I understand to be a conscious mind answer based on his past experience of being afraid. When Bandler says, “When you look at yourself going over and touching a snake do you look afraid?” Michael says, “No,” indicating an unconscious change in response.

Bandler appears to be holding the anchor during this testing, which is a useful way of making sure that it works, especially in the context of a public demonstration. However, if he had not used the anchor, it would have been a better test of whether or not the change was complete.

With his hand still on Michael’s back, Bandler then points out to him all the time wasted, both in the past and future, by having the phobic response, and what he could do with all that time, to motivate him to choose the picture of touching the snake. When Bandler says “ten minutes a day, 352 days a year” (instead of 365 days) that is a clever distraction of Michael’s conscious mind. Shortly after that the video is interrupted for a commercial break; it would be very interesting to know what else Bandler did during the segment that was omitted from the video.

The video begins again with testing, with Kelly holding a huge snake, and Bandler slowly walking with Michael toward the snake, touching the snake, and eventually holding it.

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It’s worth noting that the pre-test, (having a snake thrown at him unexpectedly) is very different from the post-test (seeing a snake at a distance and then voluntarily walking over to touch it and hold it).

Some might say that the post-test was more intense, since it was a much larger, and real snake, rather than a smaller toy snake. However, not all people are more afraid of a large snake than a small one, and having the snake come at him suddenly and out of his control is very different than seeing the snake, and choosing to slowly walk over to touch it. Ideally, the pre-test and post-test should be identical—same snake, same conditions, so that any difference in response can be securely attributed to the intervention, and not to other variables.

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I think there is also some question whether Michael really had a “huge” phobia to start with. At 1:20, just after Bandler asks Michael, “Remember when she threw the snake at you?” Michael says, “Oh, yeah,” but I don’t see the kind of nonverbal responses I would expect to see if he had a phobia.

A TV host’s job is to put on a good show, and in a variety of situations this will require good acting ability to accomplish that. Furthermore, the context of a TV show, with all the preparation and expense, and with a live audience watching and listening to one of the TV hosts (in contrast to a volunteer from the audience) exerts considerable pressure to respond as expected.

A case in point is Bandler’s 2008 video of working with a woman with an airplane phobia in “The Hypnotist.” At the end of part 2, it is quite clear from both her verbal report and her nonverbal response that she still has her phobia of flying, yet the video (which must have cost a bundle to produce) is presented as a success by “the world’s leading hypnotist.”

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