Wow! I just finished a three-day NLP intensive with Tom Best. It was just amazing. A lot of my behaviors have changed in positive directions already.
We practiced Parts Polarity Integration. I picked the part of myself that likes to stay up late (I named this part "the slacker") vs. the part that wants to go to bed early and get up early to be more productive (I named this part Benjamin Franklin because he was so motivated to get things done).
The polarity parts integration worked so beautifully. Here's how I know:
The first thing I did when I got home on Sunday was to put a plan in place to read before bed. My bed didn't have an easy way to sit up and read and there wasn't enough light. So I rearranged the bedroom and it made it conducive to reading. Now instead of surfing the internet until 11:30 - 12pm, I can go to bed at 10:00 or so, read for a while, and go to sleep early.
This meets the underlying goals that my "slacker" part desired by providing amusement and relaxation.
It also meets the underlying goals of my Benjamin Franklin part by being productive and educational by reading and going to bed early.
Reading also makes me drowsy so I will go to sleep faster. So now those conflicting parts are working together and they are on the same team. Yay! Win-win.
Okay, off to bed to read my current book:
Love is the Killer App
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