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Some important principles:

• We believe that every behavior begins with a positive intention, and that every behavior is useful in some context.

• We recognize that people don't always effectively communicate their intentions, and that people respond to their map or interpretation of reality, not to reality itself.

• We believe that anything can be accomplished when the task is broken down into small enough chunks, that if one person can do something, other people can learn from that person's success, and that there is no such thing as failure - only feedback on the way to success.

• We believe that people already have all the resources they need to make any changes they want, even if they may need some help locating those resources or recognizing them.

• We think it is important to pay attention to a symptom or communication from the body.

• We believe that having choice is better than not having choice and that people will always make the best choice they can think of at the time. We think that if what you are doing isn't working, you should do something else.

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What it's all about:

We help our clients use the resources of their mind and the power of their imagination to adjust habits of thought, feeling, behavior and belief. You may want to stop an unwanted habit; build a positive new habit; eliminate a troubling fear; develop self confidence; and improve performance. We can also help you interact with others differently; change a limiting belief; learn to relax; soothe stress; or even manage pain. All experience happens within the mind - What experiences would you like to change?

The human brain is a learning, remembering, and associating machine that works much faster than you think. Can you tie your shoe, light a cigarette, or even drive a car while holding a conversation at the same time?

While you're concentrating on that conversation, who is tying the shoe or driving the car?

People quickly get good at what they practice, and after a while anything can become "automatic" - A part of your brain can run the behavior without your conscious attention. This "autopilot" is the part of the mind where skills, habits, and beliefs live.

Not all skills and habits involve a physical activity. Do you have to use your fingers to add 2+6=8, or take off a shoe to multiply 3x5=15?

These autopilot habits, skills, and beliefs happen entirely within your mind - like many of the other skills, habits, and beliefs that you seldom think of because "they're just automatic".

Have you ever had trouble changing a habit? If you have, it's because as people do anything often enough, responsibility for managing that behavior is handed-off to the autopilot to free the conscious attention to new things. Conscious attention can only manage about seven or eight things at one time, while the autopilot can manage all of the tasks of driving a car, breathing, swallowing, scratching an itch, drinking a soda, and eating french fries - all at the same time, and all without distracting you from the conversation you're having on your cell phone.

It's just office politics in the brain: We all know how difficult it is to recover responsibility once it's been assigned to someone else. Once responsibility for a habit is given to the autopilot, it can be very challenging for the busy and limited conscious mind to regain control. As soon as the conscious mind becomes distracted, that autopilot is right back on-task, running the habit for you, whether the conscious mind want to continue the habit or not.

The thoughts that set the path to destiny are not the huge plans and designs of great ambition - They are the tiny unnoticed thoughts that define the character of a person - everyday habitual thoughts - like when to be courteous; when to be charitable; and when to be angry. They are also the things you say to yourself and the things you believe. Those tiny, yet defining thoughts live outside conscious awareness, creating your destiny - without notice - and while you're busy attending to other things. We can help you to discover and then to design the content of those destiny-driving patterns.

We help our clients communicate directly with the autopilot in charge to modify, stop, or even install habits, skills, feelings, and beliefs. By doing this, we reduce or even eliminate the office politics and struggle of "will-power" that is usually suffered when trying to consciously modify a behavior.

While you may consciously know whether something is actually happening, a distant memory, or just a fantasy, some parts of the brain don't, and the autopilot is one of them. Thus, through other resources of the mind, including memory and imagination, the autopilot can simply be assigned updated habits, skills, feelings, and beliefs to support your desires and wellbeing.

We employ a variety of time-proven techniques from disciplines known as NLP and Hypnosis to help you access and use your personal resources and imagination in specific ways to achieve these results - usually in a very short time. Check out our Transforming-U page, or Contact us to learn more.