The Smile or the Soul GPS “ A Beautiful Tool of Hypnosis ”
The Soul GPS is a hypnotic tool that I add at the end of almost every session to reinforce the positive transformations we have initiated and because it seems to be an incredibly healing and strengthening tool for any future challenges .
If you are familiar with Neuro Linguistic Programming ( NLP ) or if you want to google some of the components mentioned , you will recognize that this intervention contains elements of the Circle Of Excellence where you create and anchor a state of peak performance , Future Pacing - testing a new emotional state in imagined future situations , Time Line - where the new state is brought back to earlier challenges to see if the outcome is better and Perceptual Positions - where you get to see yourself and your life from different perspectives .
It is in part based on research that your body can reverse engineer feel-good hormones if we smile ( check the TED-talk on Power Posing by Amy Cuddy ) allowing that very smile through an emotional spin to make it as large as possible and then condition it to become an anchor that retriggers the state . It involves reframing your life into a positive although unknown outcome through this smile and then using this smile to make better decisions and face challenges with a state of resilience from this moment .
By the time I introduce this content there has already been an interview , a hypnotic induction a trance deepener and an