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The Renewal Times

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February, 2006.
ISSN 1705-3773 The Renewal Times

The Renewal Times is a publication of Renewal Technologies Inc. and is edited by Roger Ellerton.

This newsletter may be republished without permission, provided it is reproduced in its entirety and provided copyright is acknowledged. To reproduce sections of the newsletter, please contact Renewal Technologies Inc. at info@renewal.ca.

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Please note: The material in this newsletter is presented for information only. It is not a substitute for medical, psychological or professional advice. Please consult a qualified professional.

Included in this newsletter:

  • Thought for the day
  • Health Notes
  • Upcoming Seminars
  • Feature Article
  • Humour
  • More Information

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Thought for the Day
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Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in striving toward an important goal.

         Maxwell Maltz

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Health Notes
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Choose Whole Grains for Health

Whole grains have long been known to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, but now a new study credits the bran component for the heart health benefits. The 14-year study revealed that men who consumed the most whole grains, particularly bran, had the lowest rates of heart disease.

Intakes of whole grains, bran, and germ and the risk of coronary heart disease in men. Jensen, M. K., Koh-Banerjee, P., Hu, F. B., Franz, M., Sampson, L., Grønbæk, M., Rimm, E. B., American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2004 Dec;80(6):1492-1499.

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For Berries, Think Purple

Purple berries, such as red and black currants, gooseberries, elderberries, and chokeberries, may have as much as 50 percent more antioxidants than other more common berry varieties. Their purple hue is indicative of a high concentration of anthocyanins, which are flavonoids with potent antioxidant qualities.

Characterization of anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins in some cultivars of Ribes, Aronia, and Sambucus and their antioxidant capacity. Wu, X., Gu, L., Prior, R. L., McKay, S., Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2004 Dec 29;52(26):7846-7856.

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Upcoming Seminars / Workshops
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We are pleased to offer the following public workshops/seminars:

Introductory NLP Evening

May 10, 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Please come as our guest. Invite a friend to come with you. Registration is required so that we can reserve a seat for you. E-mail your name and the number of people attending to mailto:info@renewal.ca. For more information, please see http://www.renewal.ca/freeseminar.htm.

During this event, we will have a book signing for Live Your Dreams – Let Reality Catch Up: NLP and Common Sense for Coaches, Managers and You and offer you a special discounted price. By purchasing in person, you will also save on shipping costs.

NLP Practitioner Training

Seven consecutive days: July 10 - 16, 2006.

or

Seven consecutive days: November 13 – 19, 2006.

NLP Master Practitioner Training

Take your NLP knowledge and abilities to the next level!
March 24 - 26, March 31, April 1, 2, May 5 - 7, 12 - 14 2006

For our most recent schedule and a description of these workshops/seminars, please visit www.renewal.ca/neurolinguistic.htm

Click on the following link for the location of our NLP Training Centre in Ottawa (Stittsville), Ontario

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Live Your Dreams Let Reality Catch Up
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My book Live Your Dreams Let Reality Catch Up: NLP and Common Sense for Coaches, Managers and You is being well received around the world. More information on my book and book reviews can be found at www.live-your-dreams.biz/book-reviews.htm. Other book reviews will be posted as they are received.

I would appreciate your help.

I would like to make my book available to as many people as possible. At this time, I am focusing on getting my book into corporate and public libraries around the world. If you have enjoyed my book or my articles, I would appreciate it you would suggest to your public or company library that they should obtain a copy. Many libraries have a process for submitting recommendations for new books. For those that don’t, you can always use the contact a librarian link and request that they send your suggestion to the appropriate contact.

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Feature Article
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This article may be reproduced, provided it is reproduced in full, including author bio and a link to renewal.ca. If you republish this or any of our other articles without including the author's name, bio and a link to renewal.ca, you will be in violation of copyright law and sent an invoice.

Walking with Grace and Power

By Roger Ellerton Phd, ISP, CMC, Renewal Technologies Inc. www.renewal.ca

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When NLP was first developed, it was mainly focused on the conscious manipulation of internal representations, for example adjusting submodalities. That is, the unconscious mind was not directly engaged in the process. Since the conscious mind can processes seven plus or minus two items at a time while the unconscious mind runs the whole body, stores and organizes memories, is the domain for memories, can work in multiple timeframes and logical levels, …; it is not surprising that effective and long lasting change should involve the unconscious mind. John Grinder and Judith Delozier realized this and developed what they called NLP New Code. One of the exercises of NLP code is called Walking with Grace and Power.

Walking with Grace and Power is a kinesthetic pattern (gets the body involved), does not require the participation of the conscious mind and makes use of the connection between your internal representations and your physiology. (See, for example my article on the NLP Communication Model.) That is, maintaining a positive and resourceful physiology while thinking of a less than resourceful experience helps your client to ‘rewire’ the neurology and overwrite the less than resourceful response. As this exercise involves using the body, it is a great exercise to use with children, as well as adults.

As with many NLP processes, it is not necessary for the coach to know the issue that the client is working on.

Walking is just one way to use this pattern. If the client is capable of other kinesthetic activities that require a fair degree of concentration to maintain excellence, then these could be used as an alternative. For example: dancing, drumming, juggling, Tai-Chi, martial arts patterns. The coach must understand the activity well enough to spot slips from excellence and be able to issue corrections.

The excellent state must be maintained for several minutes (up to 15 minutes) before the non-resourceful situation (choicepoint) is re-introduced in order to get the full physiological biochemistry activated.

If the physiology deteriorates, the choicepoint is set aside until excellence is restored in the walking state.

The basic steps are as follows:

  1. Once the client and coach are in rapport, the client identifies a situation (from either a pattern of behaviour or a future specific situation) where the client wants to either have more of an existing resource or to add a new resource or quality in that situation, in order to get a better outcome in the future. The client then sets that situation aside for the moment.
  2. The client walks in a pattern that is a minimum of 10-12 feet (e.g. circle, oval or back and forth). As the client walks, the coach suggests changes to the client’s physiology (e.g. by altering the position of the head, neck, shoulders, breathing pattern, posture, length of stride, position of feet etc.) in order to achieve excellence (grace, power, confidence and elegance). This can be done verbally or by touch adjustments.
  3. The client continues to walk while making a mental inventory of the new style. The coach monitors the client to ensure that the new style is being maintained.
  4. While maintaining the quality of the walk the client thinks their way through the situation identified in 1. The coach encourages the client and monitors the quality of the walk. If the quality falters, the coach has the client return to the resourceful state in step 2.
  5. Once the situation in step 1 has been completely thought through end-to-end while maintaining the quality of the walk, the client stops walking.
  6. Test and future pace.
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Author: Roger Ellerton is a certified NLP trainer, certified management consultant and the founder and managing partner of Renewal Technologies. He can be reached at Renewal Technologies www.renewal.ca. The above article is based on his book Live Your Dreams - Let Reality Catch Up: NLP and Common Sense for Coaches, Managers and You.

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Humour
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Tax Advisors

What's the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector?

The taxidermist only takes the skin.

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Why won't sharks attack tax inspectors?

Professional courtesy!

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