Getting to: Fun - by Dr Richard Bandler

In this extract from his bestselling book "Get The Life You Want", Dr Richard Bandler describes how to make more things in life fun by using NLP!

Get the Life You Want, by Dr Richard Bandler

One of the things I find people have trouble doing most is actually having fun. The truth is that human beings do the strangest things to have fun. Some people jump out of perfectly good aeroplanes for fun when the planes are not even broken. Some people even drag string through the water for fun.

There are numerous games where people whack balls around from here to there. They use sticks and hit balls into little holes. They take big balls and throw them into small holes. They take oblong balls and chase them while they bounce, all in the name of fun. People play cards and do all kinds of things that are not intrinsically interesting but human beings have the capability to not only make things interesting, but also fun.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could make things, which didn't seem like fun, feel a lot more enjoyable? Again, this is one of the things that you can learn to do. Paying attention to things and getting better at something is where we are really good. If you take something you actually really enjoy and something you really struggle with, then the submodalities will be different. By definition, so will the feelings.

You can look at something you enjoy and amplify it. You can make it so that you not only enjoy it but also the feelings associated with it get stronger. This can be done easily by the process of amplification. This means that you take the image of the thing you enjoy in your mind and, when you look at it, if you feel drawn towards it, then you double the size of the picture. You turn up the brightness and you speed up the image. You adjust the sounds so that the feelings get stronger.

Once they are stong enough, you literally spin them faster and you even them up so that they are centred on your midline, the middle of your body. You make it so that they go all the way down to your toes and all the way up to the top of your head, and down through your nose. You imagine all of this vividly.

The faster you spin it, the stronger your feelings get. Then, as you do this, you pull up the thing that you want to be more motivated to do, the thing you want to be fun, the thing you want to get to, and get to soon.

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