Transcript The Drop-Down Through Pattern

To “Block” or to “Speak Fluently”
“How to do What When”
“Stuttering is not about speech.”
“Stuttering/ fluency are about what ‘meaning’
the PWS consciously or unconsciously places
on a certain context.”
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Two Royal Roads to State Control
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Representation
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Speech
Behavior
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Response
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Stimulus
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NLP as Mind-Body States
• When we process information we create
mind-body “states.”
• These states are our experiences,
feelings, moods, attitudes, dispositions,
etc.
• Sensory Rep System + Linguistic
System + Physiology = States
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The following Neuro-Science
Information Comes From Norman Doidge, M.D.
The Brain that Changes Itself:
Stories of Personal Triumph from the
Frontiers of Brain Science. (2007).
New York: Viking Penguin, pp. 196204. Chapter 8 - "Imagination: How
Thinking Makes It So".
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is part of Harvard
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Medical School. The experiments happened here.
“Alvaro Pascual-Leone is chief of the center, and his
experiments have shown that we can change our brain
anatomy simply by using our imaginations.
“He has just put a paddle-shaped machine on the left
side of my head.
“The device emits transcranial magnetic stimulation, or
TMS, and can influence my behavior.
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
• Wilder Penfield had to open the skull
surgically and insert his electric probe in the
brain to stimulate the motor or sensory
cortex.
• “When Pascual-Leone turns on the
machine and makes my finger move, I
experience exactly what Penfield's
patients did when he cut open their
skulls and prodded them with large
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Short Term/ Long Term Learning
• The cramming for a test (short term
learning) strengthens existing neuronal
connections and unmasks buried
pathways.
• The slower, more permanent long term
learning changes suggest the formation of
brand-new structures, probably the
sprouting of new neuronal connections
and synapses.
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Short Term/ Long Term Learning
• After a brief period of practice, as when we cram for a
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test, it is relatively easy to improve because we are likely
strengthening existing synaptic connections.
But we quickly forget what we have crammed ─ because
these are easy come, easy-go neuronal connections and
are rapidly reversed.
Maintaining improvement and making a skill permanent
require the slow steady work that probably forms new
connections.
The difference is probably why some people, who seem
slow to pick up a skill, may nevertheless learn it better
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Piano Lessons:
• Pascual-Leone taught two groups of people, who
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had never studied piano, a sequence of notes
showing them which fingers to move and letting
them hear the notes as they were played.
Then members of one group, the 'mental
practice' group, sat in front of an electric piano
keyboard, two hours a day, for five days, and
imagined both playing the sequence and hearing
it played.
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Piano Lessons:
• A second 'physical practice' group actually
played the music two hours a day for five
days.
• Both groups had their brains mapped
before the experiment, each day during it,
and afterward.
• Then both groups were asked to play the
sequence, and a computer measured the
accuracy of their performances.
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Piano Lessons:
• "Pascual-Leone found that both groups
learned to play the sequence, and both
showed similar brain map changes.
• Remarkably, mental practice alone
produced the same physical changes in
the motor system as actually playing the
piece.
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Practice makes Perfect.
• "The level of improvement at five days in the
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mental practice group, however substantial, was
not as great as in those who did physical
practice.
But when the mental practice group finished its
mental training and was given a single two-hour
physical practice session, its overall performance
improved to the level of the physical practice
group's performance at five days.
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Don’t underestimate the
Power of your Imagination.
• Clearly mental practice is an effective way to
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prepare for learning a physical skill with minimal
physical practice.
We all do what scientists call mental practice or
mental rehearsing when we memorize answers
for a test, learn lines for a play or rehearse any
kind of performance or presentation.
But because few of us do it systematically, we
underestimate its effectiveness.
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Becoming an expert.
• "One reason we can change our brains
simply by imagining is that, from a
neuroscientific point of view, imagining an
act and doing it are not as different as
they sound.
• In both cases, the very same neural
networks are activated.
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Becoming an expert.
• When people close their eyes and visualize
a simple object, such as the letter a, the
primary visual cortex lights up, just as it
would if the subjects were actually looking
at the letter a.
• Brain scans show that in action and
imagination many of the same parts of the
brain are activated. That is why visualizing
can improve performance.
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Why all this Neuro-Science stuff?
• Since your fears and anxieties are very
well installed due both to high emotions
and much repetition…
• How does this information encourage you
to imagine & rehearse fluent strategies of
thinking?
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The “Plasticity”
of our Neural Networks
• The word Neuro-Science now uses in
reference to the brain’s ability to learn
is “plasticity”.
• The brain is not made of concrete.
• The brain is moldable.
• You can teach old dogs new tricks.
• And a PWS can learn to be fluent.
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Suggested Pattern for Rehearsal
1. The fear & anxiety about stuttering pops
into your mind. Feel it!
2. Say to the fear & anxiety, “No, I know
how to speak fluently.”
3. Recall your fluent state of mind (be in it).
4. Say to yourself, “Yes, I know how to
speak fluently!”
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Associated/ Dissociated
• Associated – You do not see yourself in the picture – you
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are “inside” the state experiencing it fully.
Dissociated – You do see yourself in the picture – you
are “outside” the experience.
Stepping aside (Going Meta) from memories, etc. we
adopt different perspectives.
We don’t “literally” step outside.
We are referring to our “felt senses”, which is a product
of our thinking.
Meta-Levels positions gives us psychological distance.
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Perceptual Positions
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Self – from your own body
Other – from “inside” the other person
Meta / Dissociated – “Outside” both
System – from the larger system and
contexts
5. Universal – The “Universe” – “God”
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Inside
your
“higher
self”
Outside both
5th Position
“Universal” Position
With “God”
3rd Position
“Outside” both
bodies.
“Objective” Position
Perceptual
Positions
4th Position
Your Position
“in the system”
1st Position
In your body
“Self” Position
In “self”
Inside the
company
2nd Position
In other person’s
body.
“Other” Position
In the “other”
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The Drop-Down Through Pattern
1. Identify the experience and emotion you want
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to transform.
Step into that experience.
Drop-down through the experience.
Experience “nothing”. (Most reach a point where
they have no thoughts or feelings. Some,
however, just transition over into the positive.)
Associate (be in it) into your resource state (5th
Position) and apply that resource state to each
problem state.
Test.
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How to contact Bob
Bobby G. Bodenhamer
1516 Cecelia Dr.
Gastonia, NC 28054
704.864.3585
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[email protected]
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